Austin Film Festival’s Screenwriters Conference boasts over 175 panels, roundtables, pitch sessions, and workshops, covering every nook and cranny of the art, craft and business of storytelling through film, television, and online platforms. By making the pure art of storytelling its compass, AFF has kept a true path, serving as a creative greenhouse for conversations, ideas, and projects by this era’s great screenwriters and filmmakers.  Industry icons, inventive executives, and indie breakouts will disclose seasoned tips and techniques in what Vince Gilligan coined “a haven for storytellers”, or what Jonathan Demme called “a sprawling but intimate movie party where writers are the honored guests and the magic of storytelling is the name of the game.”

All speakers and events are based on permitting schedules and subject to change and/or cancellation without notice.

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