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Oct. 23 - 30, 2025

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Announcing the Wonder Project/Stand Together Fellowship

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Austin Film Festival is thrilled to partner with Wonder Project | Stand Together to offer a year-long paid fellowship opportunity! See the announcement of the partnership in The Hollywood Reporter. This unique fellowship will provide...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Mac Kammerer

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There's no place like the Writer's Conference at Austin to not only learn about your craft, but to build community. AFF has been instrumental in launching the careers of writers for over three decades. Mac...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Ryan Ederer

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There’s no place like the Writer’s Conference at Austin to not only learn about your craft, but to build community. AFF has been instrumental in launching the careers of writers for over three decades. Ryan...  Read More

Big Indie Fellowship Highlight

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog, Conference, Conversations in Film, Events, News

  Here at the AFF, we are excited to announce our partnership with Big Indie Pictures for the Big Indie Pictures Screenplay Fellowship. Big Indie has partnered on some amazing projects over the years and...  Read More

AFF Script Competition announces YMH Studios Comedy Fellowship

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ANNOUNCING AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL AND YMH STUDIOS NEW PARTNERSHIP YMH Studios and Austin Film Festival announce the creation of the YMH Studios Comedy Fellowship as part of the 2024 Screenplay Competition. AUSTIN, TX (March 27,...  Read More

ANNOUNCING NEW COMPETITION PARTNER BIG INDIE PICTURES

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AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL AND BIG INDIE PICTURES Big Indie Pictures will be sponsoring both the AFF Film Competition’s Narrative Feature Award and Fellowship, as well as the Script Competition’s Big Indie Pictures Screenwriter Fellowship. AUSTIN,...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Catherine Wignall

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog, Competitions

Catherine Wignall 2021 Comedy Teleplay Pilot Noir Town Since becoming a two-time AFF finalist, my first feature, CRAWLERS (prod. Blumhouse), was released on Hulu, and I created and wrote an 8-episode series for Brat TV....  Read More

Tricks of the Trade: Crafting and Creating with Craig Mazin

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As the writer of The Hangover Parts II & III, Identity Thief, and The Huntsman: Winter’s War and the co-host of the weekly screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes, AFF alum and 2019 confirmed panelist Craig Mazin has…  Read More

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