It was the day my film Baby Baby Baby was premiering at the Austin Film Festival and I had never seen rain like that before. My phone was beeping incessantly with different texts from different people telling me that they had been stranded, rerouted, or were stuck. Read More
Guest Blog
Guest Blog: Jimmy Mosqueda
If you’re a serious screenwriter, you go to Austin. That’s just what you do. It’s like a religious pilgrimage, but instead of prayer and quiet contemplation, there’s beer, barbecue, and Shane Black. Read More
Guest Blog: Looking for Lion’s Norman Lesperance
We had the pleasure and honor of competing in the Austin Film Festival in 2014 with our feature film, Looking for Lions. It was a micro budget indie crime thriller, unorthodox in its structure, and as most films of the micro budget nature, it had no star power to help sell it to distributors. Read More
A Letter From Nicole Perlman
Before I ever attended the Austin Film Festival, I marveled at how virtually every professional screenwriter I knew joined the pilgrimage from LA to Texas each October… Read More
Guest Blog: Jeb Stuart
In excitement and anticipation for the upcoming Die Hard screening with Jeb Stuart next week, Austin Film Festival asked him a few questions about the film. Don’t miss this holiday classic on Tuesday, December 15th. 2015 at the historic Paramount Theatre. Read More
Guest Blog: MD Anderson’s Mel Klein
An Extraordinary Story of Strength and Courage At the heart of every successful film is a compelling story. In the case of Until 20, a documentary of the extraordinary life of James Ragan, producer-directors Jamila… Read More
Staff Pick: The Sex Temple
Welcome to our 2015 Festival Staff Picks column! We’ll be posting some first looks at Festival Films to look out for on the 2015 Film Schedule. Check back to the AFF blog for new Staff… Read More
AFF Guest blog: Harrison Cummins and AFF’s Summer Film Camp
We discovered that Harrison had participated in AFF’s Summer Film Camp when we was an aspiring young filmmaker in elementary school. We asked him to write about his experience and how it’s shaped his love for film: Read More
AFF Guest Blog – Travis Neely: AFF Summer Film Camp
For two weeks in June, 2012 I was a student in Austin Film Festival’s Summer Film Camp.By the time the class was over, I felt infinitely more confident in my ability to make movies, and overall, they were the two best weeks I had that summer. Read More