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Oct. 23 - 30, 2025

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2025 Winners

Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Awardees Screenplay & Teleplay Film: Jury Winners Film: Audience Awards 2025 Festival Awards 2025 AWARDEES Rian Johnson 2025 Recipients of the Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting Christine Vachon 2025 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award...  Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2025 SCRIPT AND FILM COMPETITION AWARD WINNERS

AFF Blog, Annual Festival Winners, Competitions, News

2025 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition Winners 2025 Austin Film Festival Film Competition Winners Austin, TX (October 25, 2025) – The AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL (AFF), founded in 1994 on the principle of honoring the screenplay, has...  Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2025 SCRIPT COMPETITIONS FINALIST

Competitions, Finalists, News, Screenplay Competition

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

2024 Winners

Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Festival & Conference

Awardees Screenplay & Teleplay Film: Jury Winners Film: Audience Awards 2024 Festival Awards 2024 AWARDEES Kathleen Kennedy 2024 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award for Producing Ronald D. Moore 2024 Recipient of the Outstanding Television...  Read More

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2024 SCREENPLAY AND FILM COMPETITION AWARD WINNERS

AFF Blog, Annual Festival Winners, Competitions, News

Austin Film Festival is thrilled to announce its 2024 Script and Film Competition Awardees.  We are honored that these superb writers and filmmakers chose to share their work with us. Their stories demonstrated the voice, vision, and...  Read More

Alum Blog: Richard Dane Scott

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Awardees, Competitions, Daily, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, Finalists, Panelists, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories, Winners, Writing Wisdom

There’s no place like the Writer’s Conference at Austin to not only learn about your craft but to build community. Richard Dane Scott, a 2010 Austin Film Festival finalist, dives into how entering the screenplay...  Read More

2024 Film Jurors

AFF Blog, Competitions, Conference, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, Film Festival, Juror Announcements, News

Take a look at the 2024 Jurors for the Film Competitions below! 2024 FILM COMPETITIONS JURORS Clint Bentley Narrative Shorts Clint Bentley is a writer, director and producer based in Texas. JOCKEY, his feature directorial...  Read More

Alumni Blog: Ryan Ederer

AFF Blog, Alumni Updates, Annual Festival Winners, Awardees, Competitions, Conference, Daily, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, Film Festival, Finalists, Interviews, Screenplay Competition, Success Stories, Winners, Writing Wisdom

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

2024 Texas Short Film Award

30th Anniversary Blog, AFF Blog, Announcements, Awardees, Competitions, Conference, Conversations in Film, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, Film Festival, Finalists, News, Screenplay Competition, Sponsors

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

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