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2020 Winners

11/03/2020 Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Film: Jury Winners Film: Jury Honorable Mention Film: Audience Awards Screenplay & Teleplay 2020 Festival Awards Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Winners Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Winners Drama Feature Screenplay Award Presented by Writers Guild of... Read More

AFF 2020 Winners Announced

11/02/2020 AFF Blog, Announcements, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Panelists, Press, Press Releases

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 2020 AUDIENCE AWARDS AND HIGHLIGHTS JURY SELECTIONS FROM THE FILM AND SCRIPT COMPETITIONS AUSTIN, Texas— November 2, 2020— Austin Film Festival (AFF), the premier Festival to recognize the... Read More

2020 Austin Film Festival Program Book

10/22/2020 AFF Blog, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, News, Press

Want to see what the 2020 Virtual Austin Film Festival is all about? Download a digital copy! 2020 Program Book Please note that from time to time, changes to our schedule can occur and will... Read More

2020 SCRIPT COMPETITION WINNERS

10/21/2020 Annual Festival Winners, Competitions, News, Screenplay Competition

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 &... Read More

AFF 2020 Opening, Centerpiece, and Closing Night Films Announcement

10/15/2020 AFF Blog, Announcements, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Panelists, Press, Press Releases

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES OPENING, CENTERPIECE, AND CLOSING NIGHT FILMS AMONG ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING INCLUDING WWE BROTHERS OF DESTRUCTION PREMIERE OCTOBER 15, 2020 – AUSTIN, TX – Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF), the premier... Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2020 SCRIPT COMPETITION FINALISTS

10/14/2020 Competitions, Screenplay Competition

AFF is pleased to announce the 2020 Script Competition Finalists. 59 scripts were chosen for the Final Round with one winner to be determined in each of the 18 categories. The winners will be announced... Read More

AFF 2020 Full Slate Announcement

10/01/2020 AFF Blog, Announcements, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Panelists, Press, Press Releases

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES MARQUEE SELECTIONS ALONGSIDE FULL FILM AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Austin, TX – October 1, 2020 – Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF), the premier film festival recognizing the writers’ contributions to... Read More

Script Competition Judge Announcement: Kim Bass, Ashley Edward Miller, Eric Haywood, Caitlin Friedman, Jef Kaminsky, and Madison Pierce

09/30/2020 Competitions, Juror Announcements, News

Kim Bass is an Emmy-nominated, NAACP Image Award-winning, screenplay and teleplay writer who became a member of the Writers Guild of America West in 1989 after selling sketch comedy material to the HBO news parody... Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2020 SCRIPT COMPETITION SEMIFINALISTS & SECOND ROUNDERS!

09/26/2020 Competitions, Screenplay Competition

AFF is pleased to announce the 2020 Script Competition Semifinalists (top 2%) and Second Rounders (top 20%). They were chosen from a record field of 13,175 scripts entered in our Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and... Read More

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