Archives for September 2013

Austin Film Festival will showcase the best youth filmmaking from around the country during the 20th Annual Austin Film Festival, October 24 – 31, 2013.

The competition is free to enter and open to youth filmmakers ages 13 to 18. Entrants will be invited to attend the 20th Annual Austin Film Festival. While at the Festival the winning filmmakers will have the opportunity to see almost 200 films, learn from panels with industry veterans and network with writers, directors and industry insiders.

This year’s Young Filmmakers Competition films are:  Read More

This week you’ve our Film Lineup Announcement as well as the full listing of Short Films playing at the 20th Anniversary Austin Film Festival, here’s a roundup of films in competition. These films are eligible for a coveted Bronze Typewriter Award. Good luck to all entrants!  Read More

Oscar Isaac and T Bone Burnett to Present INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS as Centerpiece Film FILM LINEUP INCLUDES 12 YEARS A SLAVE, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, CHILD OF GOD, and BIG SUR…  Read More

Austin Film Festival is excited to announce the full list of short films slated for this year’s 20th Anniversary Festival!  Read More

THE 2013 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 20TH ANNIVERSARY FILM LINEUP JOEL AND ETHAN COEN’S INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS AS CENTERPIECE FILM PRESENTED BY LEAD ACTOR OSCAR ISAAC AND MUSIC PRODUCER T BONE BURNETT FULL FILM LINEUP…  Read More

The Independent Filmmaking Track is continuing this year at the Conference with more big picture panels like ‘The Short Film,’ ‘Directing Your Own Script,’ and ‘Financing Your Indie Film,’ as well as nuts-and-bolts discussions taking us through all stages of production and storytelling through editing, cinematography and sound. These sessions will feature filmmakers from the 2013 Film Program alongside other panelists, so you can hear about their work by day and see it on the big screen by night.   Read More

This week’s Austin Film Festival Guest Blog comes from a long-time friend of the Festival, Olga Campos. Olga is one of the most honored television news anchors ever to grace the Texas airwaves. After stepping down from the anchor desk, Olga became Community Relations Director for businessman and philanthropist Milton Verret. She has worked on various fundraising projects with Mr. Verret for Dell Children’s Medical Center; The Texas Hall of Fame Awards and American YouthWorks. The Austin Business Journal recently named Olga a 2013 Profiles in Power winner. When Olga gets a few hours of free time she enjoys seeing films with her husband Kevin Benz, of 25 years. This week she’s guest blogging for AFF about why she doesn’t mind waiting in AFF’s film lines year after year…  Read More

After receiving a record number of entries, we have completed the reading process and have started mailing out notification letters. By the end of the week, letters will be sent out to all entrants and Semifinalists will receive a personal phone call from Matt Dy, Screenplay Competition Director. Within the next week, we will be sending out email notifications to all entrants to ensure everyone has received communication. Please give some time to receive your letter and e-mail before inquiring about the status of your script. The full results for the Second Round and Semifinalist scripts will be posted by mid September. Good luck to all of our 2013 entrants!  Read More

In 2006 I won the AFF comedy teleplay competition with a My Name is Earl spec. It was by far the biggest accomplishment yet in my young career (unless you consider carrying 30 lunches at once as a television PA an accomplishment), and I hoped and believed the next step would be finding representation from this victory that could then lead to staffing on a show soon thereafter. Well, these aspirational timelines rarely work out the way we want…  Read More