Upcoming Classes | Austin School of Film
★ Programs Calendar ★

What's coming up.

Every class, event, and program in one place, in order. Our classes are intentionally small and they fill up fast, so grab your spot early. If something sells out, join the waitlist and you'll be notified the moment a seat opens.

Right Now

✦✶✦✶✦
Experimental filmmaker Ana Armengod
Part of Invasive Species 2

Feminist Horror Week at Hyperreal.

Oct 12–16 · Hyperreal Film Club, 301 Chicon St

The Invasive Species 2 invasion is spreading to the cinema. Curated by our Executive Director Faiza Kracheni with support from Cynthia Muñoz and Alexis Hunter, five nights of cult classics, contemporary features, experimental films and local shorts about desire, the body, belonging, and what happens when the things that haunt us refuse to stay hidden. We are flying in experimental filmmaker Ana Armengod for a night of her work and a visit to our Avant-Garde class.

Supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.

Full week at Hyperreal →
Tap to filter Class Event Program Enrolling / RSVP Limited Spots Left Join Waitlist Opening Soon / Invite Only / Deadline

October.

★ Busiest month of the season
Oct 1
Thu
★ Program · 2026 cohort · Day one

Artist Access Program Begins

Six-month term through Mar 31 · A new cohort of emerging artists begins · Studio benefits unlock after the first 30 days

By Invitation
Oct 1
Thu
★ Event · Open call opens · Austin Studio Tour

Cinema Obscura: Open Call for Media Arts Projects

Submissions open for our Austin Studio Tour exhibition · Closes Oct 15 · More information soon

Opening Soon
Oct 3–4
Sat–Sun
★ Weekend workshop · Intermediate

Intro to Cinema Cameras

10am–4pm

★ Enrolling
Oct 6
Tue
★ 8-week course · Session 2 · Beginner friendly

Digital Filmmaking: Script to Screen

Tuesdays through Dec 1 (no class Nov 24) · 6:30–9:30pm · 1 seat left · Last start of 2026

Limited Spots Left
Oct 8
Thu
★ 4-week course

Editing Theory & Aesthetics

Thursdays through Oct 29 · 6:30–9:30pm · Sold out

Join Waitlist
Oct 9–31
Fri–Sat
★ Event · Exhibition · Partner program

Invasive Species 2 at Future Front

A multidisciplinary exhibition curated and led by Alexis Hunter, with a network of more than 25 women artists, writers, filmmakers and cultural workers · Future Front, East Austin · Feminist Horror Week at Hyperreal is part of it

Opens Oct 9
Oct 10–11
Sat–Sun
★ Weekend workshop · Beginner friendly

Intro to Super 8 Filmmaking

10am–4pm · Sold out

Join Waitlist
Feminist Horror Week, Oct 12–16 at Hyperreal Film Club, curated by Faiza Kracheni.
Oct 12
Mon
★ Event · Feminist Horror Week · Night one

Sealed With a Kiss

Opening night: a sprinkle of witchcraft, a dash of queer yearning, and a kiss that changes everything. Cassandra Quintela’s queer supernatural comedy short Vexed, then Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body, written by Diablo Cody · Presented by Alexis Hunter & Faiza Kracheni · Hyperreal Film Club

★ Get Tickets
Oct 13
Tue
★ Guest speaker · Avant-Garde & Experimental Filmmaking

Guest Speaker: Ana Armengod

We are flying in Mexican multidisciplinary artist and MacDowell Fellow Ana Armengod to close out the fall Avant-Garde class. She works across film, illustration, writing, sculpture, installation and sound, and she will talk process and practice ahead of her Feminist Horror Week shorts program at Hyperreal the next night · For enrolled students

Students Only
Oct 13
Tue
★ Event · Feminist Horror Week · Night two

It’s in the Shadows

Horror about what grows beneath the surface. Ramiyah Nevaeh Brooks’ short Mold, then Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a hypnotic vampire film set in the Iranian ghost town of Bad City · Presented by Alexis Hunter & Cynthia Muñoz · Hyperreal Film Club

★ Get Tickets
Oct 14
Wed
★ 4-week course · Virtual · Beginner friendly

Intro to Production Management

Wednesdays through Nov 4 · 6:30–8:30pm

★ Enrolling
Oct 14
Wed
★ Event · Feminist Horror Week · Night three

It’s Taking Root

Identity, belonging and displacement: a shorts program by experimental filmmaker Ana Armengod, a conversation with Ana about her practice, then Michelle Garza Cervera’s Huesera: The Bone Woman · Presented by Faiza Kracheni & Ana Armengod · Hyperreal Film Club

★ Get Tickets
Oct 15
Thu
★ Event · Open call closes · Austin Studio Tour

Cinema Obscura: Open Call Closes

Last day to submit media arts projects for our Austin Studio Tour exhibition · More information soon

Deadline
Oct 15
Thu
★ Event · Feminist Horror Week · Night four

Death Angels

Four experimental films about life, death, and what the body knows: Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Barbara Hammer’s A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2008), Emily Basma’s Seeds, and the premiere of Faiza Kracheni’s If I Die · Followed by a Women in Arts meetup, details to be announced · Hyperreal Film Club

★ Get Tickets
Oct 16
Fri
★ Event · Feminist Horror Week · Night five

Bodies That Bite Back

Closing night, centered on bodies that refuse to behave. Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Teeth, a darkly comic horror film about a young woman whose body becomes its own weapon, plus a short film to be announced · Hyperreal Film Club

★ Get Tickets
Oct 17–18
Sat–Sun
★ Weekend workshop · In-person · Beginner friendly

Intro to Production Management

10am–4pm

★ Enrolling
Oct 17–18
Sat–Sun
★ Weekend workshop · Beginner friendly

Intro to 2D Digital Animation

10am–4pm · The Clayton computer lab · 1 seat left

Limited Spots Left
Oct 20
Tue
★ 6-week course · Beginner friendly

Intro to Rotoscope Animation

Tuesdays through Dec 1 (no class Nov 24) · 6:30–9:30pm

★ Enrolling
Oct 24–25
Sat–Sun
★ Weekend workshop · Beginner friendly

Intro to Camera: Cinematography Basics

10am–4pm · Same weekend as Sound Recording

★ Enrolling
Oct 24–25
Sat–Sun
★ Weekend workshop · Beginner friendly

Intro to Sound Recording for Film & Video

10am–4pm · Same weekend as Intro to Camera

★ Enrolling
Registration for 2027 opens late October, for classes running January through March.
Halloween weekend, Oct 31 – Nov 1: no classes. Go be scary.