2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Tate Hanyok is a director-writer-producer focused on female-driven comedy and young adult stories. Tate’s AFF winning feature script Sex APPeal, which she produced alongside American High as a Hulu Original, premiered January 2022. The indie feature film Love and Baseball which... Read More →

Brian Siegele is a Colorado and Los Angeles-based writer and producer for film, television and audio. A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, he is a former AFF Screenplay Winner (2013), Podcast Finalist (2019), and Screenwriter to Watch (2022). Though he began his career... Read More →

Sean Collins-Smith (Story Editor, CHICAGO PD; Staff Writer, FIELD OF DREAMS) is a screenwriter and national award-winning journalist from Richmond, Virginia. A winner and 3-time finalist at the Austin Film Festival, Sean’s most recent pilot, SUICIDE MACHINES: A LIMITED SERIES, reached... Read More →

Mac Smullen is a screenwriter and filmmaker who has participated in Gotham Week, been a Sundance Institute Fellow, and won the AMC One-Hour Pilot Award at the Austin Film Festival. He is currently developing an original pilot with Warner Bros. Television.