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For all events, enter through the main building.  Once past the front desk, you will find our box office to the right in the Jennifer & David Kaufman Family Living Room.

Our main screen will be across the courtyard in the Gloria & Harvey Evans Performance Center in the Epstein Family Community Hall. Volunteers and signs will direct you to the correct venue.

Parties will be in the Kaufman Family Living Room, which is also a great place to hang out between screenings.

AJFF provides a choice of two passes—a Festival Pass, which provides access for one named person to all festival events (including online) and a Combo Pass,  which includes all the benefits of the Festival Pass and also provides access to all AJFF365 year-round programs for one named person.

Passes are not transferrable and permit only the passholder entry to events.  They do not contain any donation element and thus are not tax-deductible.

Rather than purchasing a pass, you may choose to become a supporter of AJFF. Supporterships are available at different levels, with different benefits.  But all supporterships have the following features:

• 80% of the supportership cost is a tax-deductible contribution; that portion can be paid from a donor advised fund (DAF)  or another tax advantaged account, or it can be claimed as a tax deduction.
• Benefits are flexible—they can be used for the supporter and their guests. So you can use your tickets to bring family or friends to an event if you wish.
• Benefits extend to the 2026 Festival and AJFF365 events over the next 12 months.
• Supporters automatically get a 20% discount off extra guest tickets when their included free tickets are used up.
• Supporters are recognized on our website and on screen.  They also receive a gift package as a special “thank you.”

We may encounter sold-out programs. To guarantee seats for everyone who wants to attend an event, we ask that passholders and supporters order tickets and come to the theater 20 minutes before showtime. As long as the supporter has remaining benefits, these tickets will be free.

Also, for events like parties, we have to make commitments to vendors for food and other items based on the number of attendees.  By requiring everyone to have a ticket, we can provide a more accurate count of the number of people expected.

As a passholder or supporter, you can easily order tickets online by signing in to our website, then going to the events you want to attend.  Select the free ticket option, add it to the cart, and check out at no charge. You may also get tickets at the onsite box office during the festival if there are still unsold seats.  However, we encourage you to order online in advance to avoid possible disappointment. 

If you have difficulty ordering online, contact us at info@AustinJFF.org including your name, phone number, and the events you want to attend, and we’ll contact you to help with ticketing.

Donations are 100% tax deductible and include no benefits other than recognition.  

Supporterships are 80% tax deductible, but they also include benefits that the supporter can use to attend festival and AJFF365 events.  

If you want to support AJFF and intend on coming to at least some events over the next 12 months, you should select a supportership.