RICHARD LINKLATER (director, screenwriter) is known for his independent-spirited filmmaking. Before “Slacker,” an experimental narrative revolving around 24 hours in the lives of 100 characters, garnered acclaim in 1991, Linklater had made many shorts and completed a Super 8 feature in 1988, “It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books.”
Linklater's additional credits include the 70's cult hit “Dazed and Confused” (1993); “Before Sunrise” (1995), for which Linklater won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Best Director; “SubUrbia” (1997); “The Newton Boys” (1998), a western/gangster film set in the 1920s; the animated feature “Waking Life” (2001); the low-budget, real-time drama “Tape” (2001); the hit comedy “School of Rock” (2003); “Before Sunset” (2004), and Bad News Bears (2005).
Linklater 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 shows over 100 films a year and has given out $550,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers. In 1999, the Austin Film Society received the first National Honoree Award from the Directors Guild of America in recognition of its support of the arts.
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