Submit To Future Front’s Open Call for Artists.
✰ ABOUT OUR ANNUAL OPEN CALL:
Every year, Future Front offers a range of commissions, honorariums and stipends for women and LGBTQ+ artists, musicians, filmmakers, cultural producers and creatives living and working in Texas.
We accept submissions across the following opportunities for music, film, visual art, comedy, poetry & performance art:
✰ The Front Festival's Music Showcase
✰ The Front Festival's Film Showcase
✰ Future Front's Artist Residency
✰ HOW TO APPLY:
Submissions are closed.
To learn more about submission opportunities while you wait, continue reading below.
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Every year at The Front Festival, we present a film program featuring 75% submissions from the Future Front community—from feature films and music videos to shorts and experimental works.
If selected for this opportunity, your film will be screened at The Front Festival Film Showcase on the Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria Grounds on September 2, 2023.
Future Front will cover all associated costs with the screening. (There is no submission or screening fee.) We will also provide weekend festival passes for you and your guests. -
Every year at The Front Festival, we book one musical performance, featuring a submission from our community.
If selected for this opportunity, you will be included as a paid opener at The Front Festival Music Showcase on September 1, 2023. You will also receive weekend festival passes for you and your guests. -
Annually, we work with 15 visual artist and DJs in residence.
Collaborating within our programs or with our partners—like The Contemporary Austin, Bumble, The Line Hotel, Pease Park, Fusebox Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement—our resident artists work with us to create everything from workshop series to custom playlists to life-size installations.
All opportunities listed above include varying paid commissions, honorariums and stipends. For additional details on The Residency, please head to futurefronttexas.org/residency.
