2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Faith McQuinn has been a writer and video editor since 2005, working in LA, Orange County, and now Nashville on everything from music videos to reality television to narrative film. She spent nine years teaching screenwriting and directing at The Art Institute of Tennessee and Middle... Read More →

Christy Gressman is the vice president and executive producer of podcasts at Topic Studios, overseeing creative, production, and business strategy. She formerly led audio at The Intercept and was a partner and the executive producer at the fiction-focused podcast network Night Vale... 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 →

US-based audio pioneer Fred Greenhalgh is best known for bringing location-recording techniques from his indie film background to the production of immersive audio movies. He’s Head of Audio Production at Realm, overseeing their original and partner scripted fiction programming... Read More →

Gabriel Urbina is a Costa Rican-American writer and director. He has been writing and directing audio fiction professionally since 2014 and is best known as the creator of the science fiction cult classic podcast Wolf 359. He is also the co-creator of the comedy thriller Time:Bombs... Read More →

Tessa Bartholomew is a Filipino-American writer, director, actor, producer, audiophile, and horror film fanatic living in her hometown of Los Angeles. Her on-camera work can be seen in episodes of The Young & The Restless, Good Girls, and NCIS:LA. For several years, she has served... Read More →