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Pitching Your Personal Story
Saturday October 26, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room
As a writer, your most valuable asset is your point of view. Conveying your own unique perspective, and how your lived experience has colored it, is a powerful way to show producers and executives that you’re the right person for the job. Discover how to pitch your own personal logline and lifetime!
Moderators
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Greg Garrett

AFF moderator; author; Professor, Baylor University
Greg Garrett has been a panelist and moderator at the Austin Film Festival for more than fifteen years. At the Festival, he has interviewed luminaries such as Lawrence Kasdan, James Hart, Peter Hedges, and Damon Lindelof, and led dozens of conversations on craft, genre, adaptation... Read More →
Speakers
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Carole Kirschner

Creator and Director Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, Director WGA Showrunner Training Program, Author, Entertainment career coach
Having worked as a senior level television development executive for eighteen years (including her posts at CBS and as head of Steven Spielberg’s first Amblin Television), Carole has read heard over 5,000 pitches, read more than 3,000 scripts, bought hundreds of projects and was... Read More →
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Liz Kelly

Director of Creative Talent Development at Disney
Liz Kelly is Director of Creative Talent Development & Inclusion at Disney Entertainment Television. In this role, she works with the network and studio to staff writers and directors across ABC, ABC Signature, Freeform, Disney Channel, 20th TV, FX, Nat Geo, Disney+ and Hulu’s scripted... Read More →
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Kor Adana

writer/producer Dune: Prophecy, Star Wars: The Acolyte, Mr. Robot
Kor Adana came up as a writer/producer on USA’s award-winning series, Mr. Robot. He went on to co-executive produce Lucasfilm’s live-action Star Wars series The Acolyte, which is airing on Disney+. He is also a co-executive producer on HBO’s upcoming Dune prequel series, Dune... Read More →
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Chris Burns

Manager/ Producer, Underscore Talent
Chris Burns is a manager and producer at Underscore Talent where he works with people across a variety of different creative disciplines. His clients have written for TV (SNL, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Broad City, Miracle Workers and many more), made comedy specials for Netflix and... Read More →
Saturday October 26, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room 700 San Jacinto St, E 8th St, Austin, TX 78701
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