12 Screenwriters Announced for Meryl Streep’s Women Over 40 Lab, including AFF Alumni and Austinite Sarah Bird Rejection and Development: A Screenwriter Describes his First Two Years in the Business Happy Birthday, Norman Lear, 2015… Read More
AFF News + Blog
Juror Spotlight: Miguel Alvarez
On board for this year’s Narrative Student Short jury is Miguel Alvarez. Miguel is a filmmaker and lecturer at the Radio-Television-Film department of the University of Texas. In addition to writing, directing, and producing award… Read More
On Story to be Offered Year Round on PBS
LONE STAR EMMY® WINNING SHOW AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL’S “ON STORY” TO BE OFFERED YEAR ROUND ON PBS AUSTIN, Texas — July 8th, 2015 — Austin Lone Star EMMY® winner On Story, now offers programming… Read More
Juror Spotlight: Samantha Scupp
Participating in our Comedy Vanguard jury is Samantha Scupp, Head of Content at the distribution company FilmBuff. FilmBuff has been a great friend of AFF for many years and has picked up a variety of… Read More
Guest Blog: #ChicagoGirl’s Joe Piscatella
PLANNING FOR THE UNPLANNED How Talking Dogs Movies Did Not Prepare Me for Documentary Film Most of my career has been spent writing or doing production rewrites on studio family comedies (my last credit… Read More
Juror Spotlight: Josh Poole
Representing our Scripted Digital Series jury is Josh Poole from Above Average. A member of Broadway Video (Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, etc.), Above Average produces and hosts a variety of comedy shorts and… Read More
Juror Spotlight: N’Jeri Eaton
We’re thrilled to be working with N’Jeri Eaton from The Independent Television Service (ITVS) as part of our Documentary Short Jury. ITVS is a unique and strong force for good in the world of documentary… Read More
This Week in Screenwriting – June 3rd, 2015
AFF 2015 Outstanding Television Writer honoree, Norman Lear, set for American Masters documentary AFF Alum, Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club), writing sci-fi action film Inherit the Earth Everything we need to know about 2015 Confirmed… Read More
Juror Spotlight: Jenny Jacobi
The first Dark Matters juror in our spotlight is Jenny Jacobi, who is part of the acquisitions team at Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Though only five years old, Drafthouse… Read More