2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Chaz escaped horror by writing horror. He grew up in Tennessee where the KKK lynches the unlucky, where the Daughters of the Confederacy corrupt every student’s education, where slavery lives as conscripted prison labor, where monuments to human rights atrocities tuck themselves... Read More →

Ese, which means "God's gift" in the Nigerian Igbo language, or just "that" in Spanish, was taught the meaning of perspective from a young age, allowing him to create nuanced and vibrant characters across tones typically within socio-political frameworks. Ese is a dramedy writer hailing... Read More →

Rebecca Murga is a Chicago-born, Puerto Rican writer and former military officer. Currently, Rebecca is a writer on the ABC TV series WILL TRENT, has previously written on Apple TV+’s SWAGGER, and has written features for A&E/Lifetime and New Line Cinema. Currently she is developing... Read More →

Jen Howell grew up in Newport Beach, California before attending Northwestern University in Illinois. Her path has been circuitous: Due to an ill-timed writers' strike as she was moving to LA, Jen spent time working at the British Consulate and as a youth pastor at a local church... Read More →