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Oct. 27 - Nov. 3, 2022

Alumni Updates

Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalist Blog: Adam Dick

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I thought I was a goner when I received the call from the Austin Film Festival telling me that my script “Teacher” had made the semi-finals. It was, I believe, the last day of notifications...  Read More

“AFF is Awesome!” A Script Competition Second Rounder Blog by Edward Kiniry-Ostro

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AFF is Awesome! by Edward Kiniry-Ostro Living my soul’s passion has been cute. Brené Brown would be proud. Authenticity is key these days and I am on this journey to thrive. Weirdly enough though, dreams...  Read More

2018 Fiction Podcast Script Competition Semi-Finalist Blog: Andrew Santoro and Kelsey Henry

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Three years ago, we bought a cheap microphone. Film was frustrating. So many scripts and never enough resources to see them all made. We wanted to tell stories--our stories, uncompromised. So we huddled around our...  Read More

Finding a Voice, Without Dialogue: Behind the AFF Winning Short Film ‘Judas Collar’ by Alison James

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I’d just spent two years riding shotgun to Australia’s toughest truck-drivers, encountering crocodiles, desert storms, bogged vehicles and countless flat tires - directing twenty-six episodes of the Discovery factual series Outback Truckers. And now, a...  Read More

From AFF to Streaming

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From AFF to Streaming: These films played at Austin Film Festival and you can now stream them at home! Your film is not on the list? It could be! Submit your film to the Austin...  Read More

Filmmakers, Find Your Fertilizer – An AFF Alumni Filmmaker Blog Post by Joshua Toro

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As a young filmmaker, I understand the impulse to apotheosize our idols as singular forces of genius and to commit ourselves to self-reliant perfection in their footsteps. We work with a tally card in our...  Read More

Alumni Update: 2011 Finalist Script in Pre-Production with Morgan Freeman and Scott Eastwood

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Congrats to 2011 Script Competition alums Joe Rosenbaum & Louis Rosenberg! Their Finalist script Paper Trail (now retitled as The Manuscript) is now in pre-production starring Morgan Freeman and Scott Eastwood with Nick Cassavetes directing...  Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL AND MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE ANNOUNCE 25 SCREENWRITERS TO WATCH IN 2018

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Click Here To Check Out The Full List For inquiries, contact Samantha Levine marketing@austinfilmfestival.com o 512.478.4795 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL AND MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE ANNOUNCE 25 SCREENWRITERS TO WATCH IN 2018 Austin, TX –...  Read More

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