Final Selections have been made!

Congratulations to all filmmakers who submitted this year. We had an amazing time watching all of the wonderful film submissions and will be thrilled to share the top 10 under 10 films during our screening. The jury consisted of Austin Film Society staff members Chale Nafus, Bryan Poyser and Agnes Varnum.

Published on May 2, 2009

PRESS REVIEWS

Getting Creative With Constraints

This year marks the fifth 10 Under 10 program, an annual documentary shorts compilation organized by Ellen Spiro, University of Texas professor, filmmaker (Body of War, Troop 1500), and self-professed celebrant of the "small and cheap." Ten films under 10 minutes long and made for less than $10. ("Not that we audit anyone's books," she adds. "It's really just about the spirit of low budget.")...
Published on May 8, 2009

Spiro's Experiment

10 Under 10 is celebrating its fifth anniversary on May 9 with five new films and five previously shown films, one from each of the program's first five years. The films made by RTF students are, according to Spiro, "a celebration of raw creativity, real reality – as opposed to the scripted television kind – and founded on the notion that great ideas can happen on no budget and in little time....
Published on May 4, 2007

Shorts on a Shoestring

The rules of engagement for the fourth annual 10 Under 10, the program of UT student short films...
Published on May 6, 2005

Ten Little Indies

It's that time of year in the Austin Film Society's doc tour cycle for something completely different, that change of pace, courtesy of UT's Radio-Television-Film department, known as the 10 Under 10 (Again) short series...
Published on May 7, 2004

Through a Student's Lens, Quirkily

Loose a group of fresh-eyed, UT student docmakers on a class film-project mission, and be prepared to see a quirky side of your fair city that you never knew existed. Did you know, for example...
Published on May 9, 2003