Top

Austin Film Festival

Oct. 23 - 30, 2025

2024 Winners

Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Awardees

Screenplay & Teleplay

Film: Jury Winners

Film: Audience Awards

2024 Festival Awards

2024 AWARDEES

Kathleen Kennedy
2024 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award for Producing

Ronald D. Moore
2024 Recipient of the Outstanding Television Writer Award

Rachel Kondo
2024 Recipient of the New Voice Award

Justin Marks
2024 Recipient of the inaugural Writers’ Writer Award

Robin Swicord
2024 Recipients of the Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting

Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Winners

Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Winners

Drama Feature Screenplay Award
Presented by Writers Guild of America, East

Hung Over
by Michail Eggelhoefer 

Comedy Feature Screenplay Award

Love That for You
by Forrest Brown

 

Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay Award

Audrey
by Imogen Grace 

Horror Screenplay Award presented by Vertigo Entertainment

Pound for Pound
by Benjamin R. Moody 

Drama Teleplay Pilot Award

The Mitfords
by Vivian Kerr 

Comedy Teleplay Pilot Award

Florence Unfiltered
by Heather Osterman-Davis and Sarah Ball

Drama Teleplay Spec Award

The Great: A Hole In Horizon
by Rosy Lum 

Comedy Teleplay Spec Award

Abbott Elementary: Has Been
by Forrest Hanson

Enderby Entertainment Award

Megaball
by Aaron Kozak

TV Comedy Fellowship sponsored by the Nickelodeon Writing Program

YMH Studios Comedy Fellowship 

Chasing Shadows
Tony Ferrendelli and Kim Turner

Big Indie Screenwriting Fellowship

X Marks the Spot
written by: Mason Greer 

Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowships

The G.Y.M.
by Dani Hanks (TV)

and 

Separated
by Jessica Sieff (Feature Film)

Short Screenplay Award

The Dyson-Nüwa Project
by Joey Yu 

Scripted Digital Series Award

UR Killing Me
by Michael Iannconi and Sarah Moen 

Fiction Podcast Award

Saint Cassandra
by Zaity Salman 

Playwriting Award

Insertion
by Sarah Groustra 

 
  

Film Competition Jury Winners

Film Competition Jury Winners

Narrative Feature

Color Book
writer/director: David Fortune 

Documentary Feature

Desert Angel
director: Vincent DeLuca

Comedy Vanguard Feature

Lady Parts
writer: Bonnie Gross

Dark Matters Feature presented by Vertigo Entertainment

In Vitro
writer: Tom McKeith, Talia Zucker, Will Howarth; director: Tom McKeith, Will Howarth 

Texas Short Filmmaker Award presented by Aduro Studios (Winner)

There’s a Klansman in the Trunk!
writer/director: Xavier Ingram 

Narrative Short*

Punter
writer/director: Jason Adam Maselle 

Narrative Student Short

Lice
writer/director: Vindhya Gupta 

Documentary Short*

I Am Ready, Warden
director: Smriti Mundhra 

Animated Short*

Yuck!
writer/director: Loïc Espuche

Produced Digital Series

Sasha Counters!
writer: Anna Zaytseva and Daria Maslovskaya, director: Anna Zaytseva

Enderby Entertainment Fellowship Award

Special Delivery
writer/director: Emily Everhard 

Young Filmmakers

Beautiful
writer/director: Jonah Sachs

 

*Indicates categories that qualify for consideration for an Academy Award®

Audience Award Winners

Audience Award Winners

Marquee Feature

Ravens
writer/director: Mark Gill

Narrative Feature

Green & Gold
writer: Anders Lindwall, Steven Shafer, Michael Graf, Missy Mareau Garcia, director: Anders Lindwall

Documentary Feature

Champions of the Golden Valley
director: Ben Sturgulewski

Comedy Vanguard Feature

The Perfect Club
writer/director: Ricardo Castro

Dark Matters Feature

The Fetch
writer: J.C. Doler, Paul Petersen, director: J.C. Doler 

Texas Independent Feature

The Stones Are Speaking
writer/director: Olive Talley 

Narrative Short

The Cockroach
writer/director: Mary Pat Bentel

Narrative Student Short

Special Delivery
writer/director: Emily Everhard

Documentary Short

I Am Ready, Warden
director: Smriti Mundhra

Animated Short

Death of James
writer: Ellery Vandooyeweert, director: Sam Chou

Produced Digital Series

Barden & Sarah Start A Pandemic
writer/director: Tyler Peterson

  
   
icon-Award AFF Trophy

Recipients by Year

©2026 Austin Film Festival • Austin Film Festival is a Not for Profit 501(c)(3) Corporation.
Site by:BeiBay• Custom icons & base colors by Mosak.Sponsors.Privacy Policy.Store & Refund Policy.AFF Policies.Contact.Sitemap.On Story

Privacy Preference Center

Consent Management

We value your privacy and want to be clear about the data we collect, how we use it and your rights to control that information. Considering recent changes established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a set of laws passed in the European Union, we have updated our Privacy Policy.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

Privacy Policy

Required
You read and agreed to our Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.

Cookies Used

The only cookies in use on our site are for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it. You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics by visiting their page.

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Opt Out
Google Analytics