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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

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

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

2019 Winners

11/06/2019 Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Film: Jury Winners Film: Audience Awards Awardees Screenplay & Teleplay Film: Scripted Digital Series Screenplay:Scripted Digital 2019 Festival Awards 2019 Awardees Heart of Film Award Daniel Petrie, Jr. New Voice Award Catherine Reitman Outstanding... Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2019 SCRIPT COMPETITION AND FILM COMPETITION JURY AWARD WINNERS

10/26/2019 Announcements, Awardees, Press, Press Releases

For inquiries, contact Lauren Kelcher Stevenson aff@sunshinesachs.com 512.646.0149 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2019 SCRIPT COMPETITION AND FILM COMPETITION JURY... Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL FILM AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

09/26/2019 Announcements, Awardees, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Press, Press Releases

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL FILM AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE CATHERINE REITMAN ANNOUNCED AS RECIPIENT OF INAUGURAL NEW VOICE AWARD Austin, TX – September 26, 2019 – Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF),... Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL CONFIRMS TREY EDWARD SHULTS’ WAVES AS CENTERPIECE FILM, ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE OF 26TH ANNUAL LINE-UP AND AWARDEE SARAH GREEN

09/24/2019 Announcements, Awardees, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Press, Press Releases

SLATE WILL ALSO FEATURE THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ZAK HILDITCH’S RATTLESNAKE, AND PREMIERES FROM ENDERBY ENTERTAINMENT, AND HORROR LEGEND DANIEL MYRICK SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 – AUSTIN, TX - Austin Film Festival (AFF), the premier... Read More

JAMES IVORY AND RON BASS HONORED AT THE 26TH ANNUAL AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL & WRITERS CONFERENCE

09/04/2019 Announcements, Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference, News, Press, Press Releases, ubermenu

For inquiries, contact Lauren Kelcher Stevenson kelcher@sunshinesachs.com 512.646.0149 JAMES IVORY AND RON BASS HONORED AT THE 26TH ANNUAL AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL & WRITERS CONFERENCE First Look at Conference Programming Revealed, Including Conversations on The... Read More

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