Conference

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL ENDERBY ENTERTAINMENT FILMMAKING FELLOWSHIP AWARD AND JURY ADVISORY PROGRAM

05/18/2020 AFF Blog, Announcements, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, News, Press, Press Releases

For inquiries, contact Kelly Lafargue marketing@austinfilmfestival.com o 512.478.4795 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Austin, TX - May 18, 2020 - Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF), the premier film festival recognizing the writers’ contributions to... Read More

Awardees Archive

05/08/2020 Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Recipients of the Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting (previously the Distinguished Screenwriter Award) 2019 Ron Bass (writer Rain Man) 2018 Tony Gilroy (writer Michael Clayton) 2017 Kenneth Lonergan (writer Manchester By The Sea) 2016 Nancy... Read More

TRICKS OF THE TRADE: CRAFTING COMPLICATED CHARACTERS

02/05/2020 AFF Blog, Tricks of the Trade, Writing Wisdom

Regular AFF panelist Christina Hodson’s Birds of Prey hits theaters on Friday, following supervillain-turned-protagonist Harley Quinn, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for this complicated character. So, what goes into creating a truly... Read More

TRICKS OF THE TRADE: TACKLING WRITER’S BLOCK

01/29/2020 AFF Blog, Tricks of the Trade, Writing Wisdom

Writing can be a daunting task, and oftentimes the hardest part of the process is facing that blank page. So, what can you do to overcome these obstacles and what steps can you take to... Read More

TRICKS OF THE TRADE: CREATING GREAT TELEVISION WITH PHIL ROSENTHAL

01/22/2020 AFF Blog, Tricks of the Trade, Writing Wisdom

From his beloved sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond to his food and culture centered docuseries Somebody Feed Phil, Phil Rosenthal has an undeniable knack for creating entertaining and engaging TV series that resonate with a wide... Read More

Sibling Bond by Siqi Song

01/13/2020 AFF Blog, Awardees, Guest Blog, News

Siqi Song, winner of the Jury Award for an Animated Short for her film SISTER. The genesis of SISTER came from my personal experience. The idea of telling a story about siblings has been in... Read More

Remembering Buck Henry 1930 – 2020

01/13/2020 AFF Blog, Awardees, News, Panelists, ubermenu

Click here to listen to the On Story episode - Comedy Legends: Buck Henry, Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow, and Larry Wilmore Beloved comedy writer and actor Buck Henry passed away at the age of 89.... Read More

Celebrating our Pitch Finalists with Roadmap Writers!

12/24/2019 AFF Blog, Annual Festival Winners, Conference, Festival & Conference, News, Sponsors

This year we were lucky to have Roadmap Writers as the exclusive sponsor of the Pitch Competition and Finale Party! The judging panel consisted of Emmy-Winning writer Craig Mazin (Chernobyl), Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) and... Read More

TRICKS OF THE TRADE: GENRE STORYTELLING WITH RIAN JOHNSON

11/27/2019 AFF Blog, Tricks of the Trade, Writing Wisdom

With credits like his neo-noir crime drama Brick, sci-fi thriller Looper, and epic space opera Star Wars: The Last Jedi under his belt, writer/director Rian Johnson is a master filmmaker with a knack for breathing new... Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL ENDERBY ENTERTAINMENT FILMMAKING FELLOWSHIP AWARD AND JURY ADVISORY PROGRAM

For inquiries, contact Kelly Lafargue marketing@austinfilmfestival.com o 512.478.4795 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Austin, TX - May 18, 2020 - Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF), the premier film festival recognizing the writers’ contributions to... Read More

AFF at Home

We're excited for our Festival & Conference in October, but if this season has made us aware of anything - it’s that we don’t want to wait. Launching this Wednesday, we’ve created a virtual experience... Read More

Script Competition Judge Announcement: Zack Akers, Skip Bronkie, Brian Yorkey

Zack Akers grew up in the small town of Athens, Tennessee. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2008 with a degree in Film & Television and became a documentary producer with... Read More

Script Competition Judge Announcement: Eric Heisserer, Herschel Weingrod, and Dayo Adesokan

Eric Heisserer is a screenwriter and author. Most recently, he wrote the Netflix hit thriller Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock. He is the creator and showrunner for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, season one based on... Read More