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2022 Winners

11/17/2022 Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Awardees Screenplay & Teleplay Film: Jury Winners Film: Audience Awards 2022 Festival Awards 2022 AWARDEES Dede Gardner 2022 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award for Producing Stephen Merchant 2022 Recipient of the Outstanding Television Writer... Read More

Announcing 2022 Austin Film Festival Awardees

09/09/2022 AFF Blog, Awardees, Conference, News, Press Releases

Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF), the premier festival that champions the writers’ contributions to film, television, and new media, are proud to announce four distinguished awardees to be honored at this year’s festival… Read More

2021 Winners

11/03/2021 Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Awardees Screenplay & Teleplay Film: Jury Winners Film: Audience Awards 2021 Festival Awards 2021 AWARDEES Stephanie Allain 2021 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award for Producing Scott Frank 2021 Recipient of the Bill Wittliff Award... Read More

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) 2022 James Grey (writer/director Armageddon Time) 2021 Scott Frank (writer The Queen's Gambit) 2019 Ron Bass (writer Rain Man) 2018 Tony Gilroy (writer... 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

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