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Oct. 27 - Nov. 3, 2022

Success Stories

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

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Success Stories

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

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Success Stories

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

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Guest Blog, Success Stories

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

On Writing A Fiction Podcast Script by Lilly Camp & Francisco Mendoza

AFF Blog, News, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories

A little over a year ago, we had an idea for a TV show: a mock-PSA program hosted by a character named Hairy Legs Hannah, who would (supposedly) teach children about liberal values – but...  Read More

ON WINNING THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SCRIPT COMPETITION, PART II

AFF Blog, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories

By Troy Anthony Miller Troy Anthony Miller is a writer, filmmaker, and improv comedian. His screenplay The Hitch was the 2013 AFF Horror Award Winner, subsequently optioned by Frank Darabont’s Darkwoods Productions. Troy has done...  Read More

ON WINNING THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SCRIPT COMPETITION, PART I

AFF Blog, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories

By Caroline Hopkins Caroline Hopkins is a high school English and creative writing teacher in Sacramento, CA and won Austin Film Festival’s Drama Screenplay Award for her script Brokenhearted in 2017. This year, she was…  Read More

DOCUMENTARY SHORT HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405 WINS ACADEMY AWARD® AFTER QUALIFYING AT THE 2016 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL

Alumni Updates, Announcements, News, Press, Press Releases, Success Stories

For inquiries, contact Lauren Kelcher Stevenson kelcher@sunshinesachs.com o 512.646.0149 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Austin, TX – March 5, 2018 – Documentarian Frank Stiefel took home an Academy Award® this Sunday for his short film Heaven is...  Read More

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