Tue, Feb 24
|AFS Cinema
Torch x AFS: Compensation
Join us for this signature screening at AFS Cinema.
Time & Location
Feb 24, 2026, 7:45 PM – 11:45 PM
AFS Cinema, 6259 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX 78752, USA
About the event
Torch Literary Arts is a proud promotional partner of Austin Film Society (AFS). Join us for this special screening of Compensation, written by Marc Arthur Chéry, directed by Zeinabu irene Davis!
“One of the greatest American independent films ever made.”
—The New Yorker
Eighty years apart, the lives and loves of two couples are lyrically interwoven through the use of archival photography, ragtime, and African percussion. This moving portrait of the struggles of the Black American deaf and hearing communities also shows the complexity of romance at the turn of the twentieth century. A landmark of independent cinema from writer-director Zeinabu irene Davis. Preceded by Iverson White’s short DARK EXODUS.