2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Jennie Snyder Urman developed and Executive Produced the CW's Golden-Globe nominated “Jane the Virgin.” The show has been honored with a Peabody Award, 3 TCA nominations, 6 Critics Choice nominations, 3 NAACP Image Award nominations, an MTV Movie & TV Awards nomination for Best... Read More →

Guinevere Turner is a writer, director and actor who has been working in film and TV since her 1994 debut film Go Fish, which she wrote, produced and starred in. She teamed up with director Mary Harron to write the films American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, Charlie Says and... Read More →

Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It's on the syllabus at Columbia University, UCLA, and film schools all over the world. It's been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format. Oscar-winning screenwriter... Read More →

Carl Effenson is an award-winning producer whose credits include Dee Rees’ MUDBOUND. The film starring Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, and Garrett Hedlund was nominated for 4 Academy Awards, was the recipient of the Humanitas Prize and Robert Altman Award at the 2018... Read More →

JILL GOLDSMITH is a writer and producer for television, with credits on many Emmy-winning series, including NYPD Blue, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Law & Order, Boston Legal, and also Rizzoli & Isles. She was previously the Showrunner and Executive Producer for a one-hour drama in development... Read More →

Monica Lund is late to the game of filmmaking. Her love of writing and story started at a very early age, and watching old movies with her maternal grandma added the love of movies she’s enjoyed nearly her entire life. Reading thousands of scripts over 21 years of reading for Austin... Read More →

Richard Dane Scott is a screenwriter and novelist with several credits, including “Avengers of Justice” (starring Amy Smart and Simon Rex), “A Tooth Fairy Tale” (starring Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher), and was a staff writer on the TV series “5th Ward” (starring Mya and... Read More →

KENDRICK TAN is a literary manager and producer at Lit Entertainment Group. He was an Associate-Producer on PROMISED LAND for ABC/Hulu. Prior to that he was a manager at Madhouse Entertainment. He attended school at University of California, Irvine.

Ray Utarnachitt is a TV writer/producer. He is a Michigan native and like anygood Asian student, was pre-med at the University of Michigan for 3 years. Muchto his parents’ dismay, he switched tracks and graduated with a Film degree. Raybroke into the business working in production... Read More →