Catch the winners’ perspectives on their craft and hear about their journey during our Jury Award Conversation Series. The Series will stream on the Eventive platform and our YouTube channel during this year’s Festival & Conference.
| DRAMA FEATURE SCREENPLAY AWARD
presented by the Writers Guild of America, East |
COMEDY FEATURE SCREENPLAY AWARD
presented by Sony Pictures Animation |
| ENDERBY ENTERTAINMENT AWARD
King Of Rio Barro By Jonathan Easley |
SCI-FI FEATURE SCREENPLAY AWARD
Chupacabra By Mark Ellis |
| HORROR FEATURE SCREENPLAY AWARD
Open House By Sean J.S. Jourdan & John Ingle |
DRAMA TELEPLAY PILOT AWARD
Richmond Underground |
| COMEDY TELEPLAY PILOT AWARD
Lemonlight By M. Rowan Meyer |
AMC ONE-HOUR PILOT AWARD
IRIS |
| DRAMA TELEPLAY SPEC AWARD
Pose: Different Dances By Casey Bischel |
COMEDY TELEPLAY SPEC AWARD
What We Do In The Shadows: The Lamp By Ethan Von Zamft |
| SHORT SCREENPLAY AWARD
Like You Think You Know Me By Stephen Schuyler |
SCRIPTED DIGITAL SERIES
presented by Stage 13 |
| PLAYWRITING AWARD
Wake The Body By Matt Ackels |
FICTION PODCAST AWARD
Curtains By Kareem Badr & Mike D’Alonzo |
The Scholastic Entertainment Fellowship For Kids And Family Content Award is a new category within Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition, open to feature scripts that are kid-friendly or tailored for a family audience. The winner will get the opportunity to meet with the Scholastic Entertainment team and adapt one of Scholastic’s published books into a screenplay.
The winner of the Scholastic Entertainment Fellowship For Kids And Family Content Award is:
Space Kids by Joshua Losben & Scott Gabriel
The Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowship is an extension of AFF’s Script Competition and will provide a one-on-one mentorship with Barry Josephson and his team for the writers of one feature screenplay and one teleplay pilot. The fellows were chosen from the pool of Finalists in this year’s competition and were selected based on the writers and scripts that imbue the most promise for development.
The selected Josephson Entertainment fellows include:
Feature Screenplay: Company Man by Nancy Duff
Teleplay Pilot: The World Famous Maxine Is Arriving Now by Joseph McMahon
The HUMANITAS Originals Award is open to both feature screenplays and teleplay pilots that reflect the kind of stories HUMANITAS has honored for over four decades. A classic HUMANITAS story challenges us to use our freedom to grow and develop, confronts us with our individual responsibility, and examines the consequences of our choices.
The winner of the HUMANITAS ORIGINALS Award is:
The Bridge To Ossabaw Island by Kieran A. Gallagher
The Rooster Teeth Fellowship Award is open to all original comedy scripts in the feature, TV pilot, digital series, and fiction podcast categories that align with Rooster Teeth’s voice: an emphasis on comedy with grounded, low budget/high concept, genre storytelling that features ordinary people in extraordinary situations, coming-of-age stories, and other engaging journeys of self-discovery.
The winner of the Rooster Teeth Fellowship Award will receive a $5,000 prize along with a one-on-one mentorship. In addition to the Fellowship Award, Rooster Teeth will offer a development deal to one finalist, who will be given the chance to develop an original concept in conjunction with the Rooster Teeth team.
The winner of the Rooster Teeth Fellowship Award is:
The Mclean Ladies’ Foundation For Modern Literary Appreciation by Alexis Perkins
And the development deal winner is:
Please Don’t Hate Me by Nina Kim