Richard Linklater (writer/director) is a five-time Oscar nominee, two-time Golden Globe winner, two-time Bafta winner who has directed 25 feature length films. His more recent credits include Boyhood (2014), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Last Flag Flying (2017), Where’d You Go Bernadette? (2019), Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood (2022), Hit Man (2024), Hometown Prison (2024) and the upcoming Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon (both 2025). He also serves as the Artistic Director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world that were not typically shown in Austin. The Austin Film Society operates a repertory theater, manages a film studio, and has given out over $2,700,000 in cash grants to Texas filmmakers since 1996.
