Name: Awards Luncheon presented by Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation
Start: 2024-10-26T12:15:00-0500
End: 2024-10-26T14:15:00-0500

Saturday October 26, 2024 12:15pm - 2:15pm CDT

Austin Club

While attending the Festival, don't miss the opportunity to attend AFF's Awards Luncheon, where you can dine with panelists, awardees, and hear inspiring speeches from this year's honorees and winners. A must attend event to make the most of your AFF experience.

ADDITIONAL TICKET PURCHASE REQUIRED! PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY. AFF reserves the right not to seat late parties. This ticket in non-transferable.

Speakers

Kathleen Kennedy

2024 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award for Producing

Recipient of the Academy’s prestigious 2018 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Producers Guild of America Milestone Award, and an eight-time Academy Award®-nominee, Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most successful and respected producers in the film industry today. As President... Read More →

Christina Hodson

writer The Flash, Bumblebee, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey

Christina Hodson is a British born, Los Angeles based, writer and producer. She first transitioned from development executive to screenwriter in 2012. Since then, among various projects for studios, she wrote Bumblebee for Paramount (2018) and wrote and co-produced Harley Quinn: Birds... Read More →

Ronald D. Moore

2024 Recipient of Outstanding the Television Writer Award

Deeply rooted in the sci-fi genre, Moore got his start in the entertainment business on the writing staff of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” During his tenure there, he wrote or co-wrote 27 episodes, including the two-hour series finale “All Good Things,” for which he won... Read More →

Justin Marks

2024 Recipient of the Writer’s Writer Award

JUSTIN MARKS is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning screenwriter and television Creator and Executive Producer. In feature film, Justin was most recently a writer on the worldwide box-office hit film “TOP GUN: MAVERICK” for producers Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, and Paramount... Read More →

Rachel Kondo

2024 Recipient of the New Voice Award

RACHEL KONDO was born and raised on Maui. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Ploughshares Solos and Indiana Review. In 2019, her story “Girl of Few Seasons” was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories and selected as a juror favorite by Elizabeth Strout. She co-created... Read More →

Alvaro Rodriguez

writer American Rust: Broken Justice, Florida Man, Machete, Seis Manos

Alvaro Rodriguez has been writing since childhood and, in fact, did his best work when he was 11. Still holding out for improvement, he is a writer for film and television (and animation!) based in Los Angeles. During the pandemic, he contributed a monologue from an imaginary Chet... Read More →

Rian Johnson

writer/director/producer Knives Out, Glass Onion, Wake Up Dead Man, The Last Jedi, Looper, Brick; creator Poker Face

Rian Johnson is an Academy Award® and Golden Globe®-nominated filmmaker known for his distinctive cinematic style and storytelling that blends genre elements with a heartfelt, soulful core.Johnson recently wrapped production on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third film... Read More →

Robin Swicord

2024 Recipient of the Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting

Robin Swicord is primarily known for her work as a screenwriter for Memoirs Of A Geisha (Satellite Award for best screenplay); the 1994 Little Women (Writers Guild award nomination, Satellite award); Matilda (with her husband Nicholas Kazan); and the cult comedy Shag; The Perez Family... Read More →

Nicholas Kazan

writer Matilda, Reversal of Fortune, At Close Range, Bicentennial Man, Fallen

Nick is a playwright and screenwriter. Screen credits include Frances (co-author), At Close Range, Matilda (written with his wife, Robin Swicord), Reversal of Fortune (Academy Award nomination), Fallen, Bicentennial Man, and Enough. Dream Lover, which he wrote and directed, was called... Read More →

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