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Oct. 23 - 30, 2025

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Conversation with Christopher Holt; winner of 2025 AFF Wonder Project/Stand Together Fellowship

Alumni Updates, Competitions, News, Screenplay Competition

Recently, we caught up with Christopher Holt, writer of 27 Cows, the winning script of the 2025 Austin Film Festival Wonder Project | Stand Together Fellowship. Before winning at the 2025 Festival, Christopher workshopped 27 Cows with...  Read More

Armadillo World Headquarters and Austin Film Festival Announce the Winner of the Jim Franklin “The Armadillo Man” Film Fellowship

AFF Blog, Competitions, Film Competition, Film Festival, News, Success Stories, Winners

Armadillo World Headquarters and Austin Film Festival Announce the Winner of the Jim Franklin “The Armadillo Man” Film Fellowship Austin filmmaker Emil Lozada to direct a new documentary short exploring the life, legacy, and cultural...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Alexander Adell

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Annual Festival Winners, Audience Award Series, Awardees, Competitions, Conference, Contests, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, Film Festival, Finalists, Get Involved, Interviews, News, Q&A, Submit, Success Stories, Winners

For over thirty years, AFF has played a key role in launching the careers of writers. We recently spoke with Alexander Adell, the winner of our 2022 Fiction Podcast Award, about how AFF helped jumpstart...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Gordon Shoemaker Foxwood

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Annual Festival Winners, Audience Award Series, Awardees, Competitions, Conference, Contests, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, Film Festival, Get Involved, Interviews, News, Q&A, Screenings, Screenwriters to Watch, Submit, Success Stories, Winners

AFF has been instrumental in launching the careers of writers for over three decades. We recently spoke with Gordon Shoemaker Foxwood, our 2023 Dark Matters Feature Audience Award winner, about how AFF helped jumpstart the...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Austin Elliott

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Finalists, News, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories, Winners

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

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

ON WINNING THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SCRIPT COMPETITION, PART II

AFF Blog, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories

By Troy Anthony Miller Troy Anthony Miller is a writer, filmmaker, and improv comedian. His screenplay The Hitch was the 2013 AFF Horror Award Winner, subsequently optioned by Frank Darabont’s Darkwoods Productions. Troy has done...  Read More

ON WINNING THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SCRIPT COMPETITION, PART I

AFF Blog, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories

By Caroline Hopkins Caroline Hopkins is a high school English and creative writing teacher in Sacramento, CA and won Austin Film Festival’s Drama Screenplay Award for her script Brokenhearted in 2017. This year, she was…  Read More

Audience Award Series: Don’t Talk to Irene

Events

Join us every month between now and June and watch the Audience Award Winners from last year’s festival with our friends at the Alamo Drafthouse. Oh, and the best part? It’s only $5! We’ll kick off the series with the 2017 Dark Matters Audience Award Winner The Landing on January 16.  Read More

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