2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

R.B. Brenner teaches journalism at Stanford University, following a three-decade career as a newspaper reporter and editor. He held several prominent editing positions at The Washington Post and has been a consultant for two journalism-themed films: “The Post” (2017) and “State... Read More →

Joe Forte is the creator and writer of Firewall (2006) which stars Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany and Virginia Madsen and the director of the documentary The Man Who Saved Ben-Hur (2015) which premiered at the Hot Springs Film Festival and streams on Amazon. He is adapting the comic... Read More →

Jovan Robinson is a writer-producer and Marine Corps veteran originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jovan participated in the CBS writers mentoring program, the inaugural Rideback TV Incubator, and the Writers Guild's Veterans Writing Project. Recent credits include the upcoming fifth... Read More →

Writer/EP of feature films The Fabulous Four and Golden Arm and journalist who’s written for CNN, The Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly.