aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival

There is no more important place for your LGBTQIA+ film to screen in the Southwest. aGLIFF is the oldest running queer film festival in the US Southwest, and the Fourth oldest in America. We are also the oldest film festival in Austin (older than AFF and SXSW). PRISM, our 34th annual marquee LGBTQIA+ film festival will be held in-person and virtually, over two weekends from August 26 - September 6, 2021. All films submitted through FilmFreeway and selected will be eligible for cash prizes, $500 for shorts and $1000 for features, as awarded by the jury. aGLIFF is a nominating partner for the Iris Prize, the annual £30,000 prize allowing the winner to make their next film, the largest prize for an LGBTQIA+ film in the world. MISSION & OBJECTIVE The All Genders, Lifestyles and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) cultivates the Texas LGBTQIA+ community by enlightening, educating, and entertaining our clients and patrons through programs that enrich the LGBTQIA+ and ally communities while developing LGBTQIA+ awareness. aGLIFF Nonprofit Organization Programs include the Queer Youth Media Project, Community Partnership Program, and the Queer Black Voices Fund, all of which culminate in or around the annual Prism Film Festival Program. Population Served The constituency served by the aGLIFF nonprofit organization is primarily the LGBTQIA+ communities of Central Texas as well as national and international LGBTQIA+ communities. aGLIFF has about 6,000 members and engages an outreach of over 10,000 people, approximately 70% of whom were LGBTQI-identified. As aGLIFF has grown in scope and vision, the constituency has broadened and diversified. The organization has evolved from a program primarily based on entertainment and the experiences of American gay white men into an internationally-recognized community organization committed to reflecting and speaking to a broad range of issues across cultures, race, immigration status, class, gender identity and expression, age and region. ABOUT PRISM FILM FESTIVAL aGLIFF entertains our community through the exhibition and support of the best in recent LGBTQIA+ international, national, and regional films at the annual Prism Film Festival. The festival showcases features and shorts, narratives, documentaries, music videos, and the avant-garde. Festival events connect members of the community, filmmakers to each other and filmmakers to the community. Conversations and panels explore current political and social trends; and increasingly the festival serves as a major showcase for independent films. In 2019, the Board of Directors selected PRISM as our festival theme to highlight the way our festival can refract a single beam of art into multiple viewpoints, showcasing all the voices in the spectrum of our LGBTQ+ community. With new Artistic Director Bears Rebecca Fonte taking over in 2021, aGLIFF made the Prism 'theme' the new name of the festival. "PRISM encapsulates the spirit of aGLIFF just like a prism captures light, splitting it into many colors," said Fonte, "We take the light of film (or a cinema projector) and reveal the many voices that make up our community. And prisms work both ways, if you put one in front of separate colors it combines them into one fused beam." In 2020, in the wake of Covid, aGLIFF took its festival virtual and had its most successful event in years, garnering more publicity and eyes on films than the previous several years combined. In 2021, aGLIFF plans for Prism FIlm Festival to be a hybrid event, with most events virtual on Eventive, and a few screenings in person. By submitting your film, you agree to the organization's final determination of which events and films will be virtual and which are in person.