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AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2025 SCRIPT COMPETITIONS FINALIST
Announcing Austin Film Festival’s 2025 Script Competition Finalists! We are thrilled to recognize the scripts below as the select few contenders to win an esteemed bronze typewriter trophy or fellowship award. The winners for each... Read More
2025 AFF Script Competition Semifinalists and Second Rounders
We are thrilled to announce this year's advancing writers in the 2025 AFF Script Competitions! The following Semifinalists (top 2%) and Second Rounders (top 20%) have been selected from a field of 11,500+ scripts entered... Read More
Your Mom’s House Comedy Fellowship
Austin Film Festival (AFF) and YMH Studios, producers of the Your Mom’s House podcast, are excited to announce the return of the YMH Studios Comedy Fellowship. We are on the hunt for the most clever,... Read More
2025 Big Indie Narrative Feature Award/Fellowship & Screenwriting Fellowship
Announcing the Return of Big Indie Pictures to AFF’s Script and Film Competitions! To continue our mission to uplift storytellers, we are thrilled to welcome back Big Indie Pictures as the official sponsor of AFF... Read More
First Three Pages LIVE!
Submit the first three pages of your scripts, sketches, podcasts, or whatevers! Selected projects will be performed. Experience your story with strangers, make friends, and listen to feedback. Read More
Alumni Blog: Austin Elliott
AFF has been instrumental in launching the careers of writers for over three decades. In this week’s Alumni Blog, our 2023 Drama Teleplay Pilot Award winner, Austin Elliott, shares the process of creating his winning... Read More
2024 Texas Short Film Award
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ADURO STUDIOS & SHORTHAND CAMERA AS SPONSORS OF THE 2024 TEXAS SHORT FILM AWARD AUSTIN, TX (April 24, 2024) – Austin Film Festival is proud to be partnering with Aduro Studios... Read More
Big Indie Fellowship Highlight
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
