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Awards Luncheon
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
avatar for Kathleen Kennedy

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 →
avatar for Christina Hodson

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 →
avatar for Ronald D. Moore

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 →
avatar for Justin Marks

Justin Marks

2024 Recipient of the Writer’s Writer Award
The Writer’s Writer Award, introduced in 2023, honors a singular talent already recognized within the industry and by their peers, whose latest project has illustrated their versatility across mediums and elevated the trajectory of their career. The 2024 awardee is screenwriter... Read More →
avatar for Rachel Kondo

Rachel Kondo

2024 Recipient of the New Voice Award
Shōgun co-creator Rachel Kondo will receive the 2024 New Voice Award, which celebrates unique and captivating new voices in film, television, and new media.Rachel Kondo was born and raised on Maui. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Ploughshares Solos and Indiana Review... Read More →
avatar for Alvaro Rodriguez

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 →
avatar for Rian Johnson

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 →
avatar for Robin Swicord

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 →
avatar for Nicholas Kazan

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 →
avatar for Naren Shankar

Naren Shankar

writer Star Trek: The Next Generation, For All Mankind, Grimm, Farscape, The Outer Limits; executive producer/showrunner The Expanse, CSI
Saturday October 26, 2024 12:15pm - 2:15pm CDT
Austin Club 110 E 9th St, Austin, TX 78701
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