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Oct. 23 - 30, 2025

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Alumni Blog: Laura Hunter Drago

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Annual Festival Winners, Competitions, Festival & Conference, Success Stories, Winners

AFF has been instrumental in launching the careers of writers for over three decades. We recently spoke with Laura Hunter Drago, 2023 Fiction Podcast Award Winner, about her journey from breaking into the world of...  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

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Kolby Davis reviews Da 5 Bloods

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Kolby Davis reviews Da 5 Bloods Normally, I need a dimly lit room with an array of Mastrotto Leather recliner seats, tens of other people with hands slicked with...  Read More

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Lucca Galvao reviews Speed

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Lucca Galvao reviews Speed In 1994 the action film Speed, written by Graham Yost, made 350.4 million at the box office, won two academy awards for Best Sound Editing...  Read More

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Zack Fernandez reviews Palm Springs (2020)

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Zack Fernandez reviews Palm Springs (2020)  Andy Siara kills two birds that most people wouldn’t dare touch with the same stone. Palm Springs (2020) presents an interesting and novel...  Read More

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Wyatt Frantz reviews Big Eyes

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Wyatt Frantz reviews Big Eyes Most of us are familiar with the all-American grind of waking up at 8AM every weekday and working tirelessly to make a living out...  Read More

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Kolby Davis reviews Blackkklansmen

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Staff Pick (Intern Edition): Film Intern Kolby Davis reviews Blackkklansmen When looking for an escape from the world’s realism, it can be tempting to watch an animated dreamscape of low-stake fun. However, a few hours...  Read More

Alyssa Alvarado Reviews Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Alyssa Alvarado Reviews Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse As a huge fan of Marvel, I’m always ready to say good things and defend the movies if needed, but Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse deserves all the praise....  Read More

Marissa Padden Reviews The Lion King

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog

Marissa Reviews The Lion King The year was 1994. It was a simpler time, abundant in one-strap overalls, jelly shoes, and all assortments of butterfly hair clips. It was the year Ruth Bader Ginsburg was...  Read More

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