Name: Second Rounders and Above Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television
Start: 2024-10-26T10:45:00-0500
End: 2024-10-26T12:00:00-0500

Saturday October 26, 2024 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT

St. David's Episcopal Church Sumners Hall

Get in-depth answers to your questions about the art, craft, and business of writing for film and television. This roundtable session offers registrants exclusive access to screenwriters, directors, producers, executives, and studio reps in an informal setting. Come prepared with questions that focus on both the creative and business sides of breaking into and writing for film and television.

Speakers

Matt Selman

showrunner/executive producer The Simpsons

Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Matt Selman has worked on THE SIMPSONS for 27 seasons and counting. Selman has written or co-written 30 SIMPSONS episodes, and was one of the writers on THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. He has won seven Emmys, a Writer’s Guild of America Award and a Peabody... Read More →

Marissa Jo Cerar

writer The Handmaid’s Tale, creator Women of the Movement, creator Black Cake

Marissa Jo Cerar is a NAACP Image Award and two-time Humanitas Prize winning writer and producer who began her career working on series such as Netflix’s 13 REASONS WHY and Hulu's THE HANDMAID’S TALE, for which she shares nominations for both the Emmys and Writers Guild Awards... Read More →

Justine Conte

producer Killers of The Flower Moon, Pretend It's A City, Joker: Folie à Deux.

Justine Conte is a Producer best known for her work with Martin Scorsese on Killers of The Flower Moon and the Fran Lebowitz docuseries Pretend It’s a City. She worked as an Associate Producer at Sikelia Productions with Martin Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff on the development... Read More →

Carl Effenson

producer Mudbound, Bob Trevino Likes It, Mending the Line, Burying the Ex, Hide Away

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 →

Lovinder S. Gill

AFF moderator

Lovinder Gill is an Award-Winning filmmaker and an International Best-Selling Author for his book “Scriptcake Secrets: The Top Ten Mistakes Novice Screenwriters Make and How to Fix Them.”His screenwriting podcast Scriptcake was chosen as one of “The 25 Best Screenwriting Podcasts... Read More →

Mike Jones

director Pixar Animation Studios; writer/director Dream Productions; writer Soul, Luca.

Mike Jones has been a writer and story consultant at Pixar Animation Studios since June 2013, and joined the studio full-time in March 2017. Most recently, Jones wrote, directed, and executive produced the upcoming original series “Dream Productions,” inspired by the world of... Read More →

Larry Postel

writer The Main Event, 5000 Blankets, Flip Turn, The High Holiday

Since 2020, Larry has had four original/spec screenplays produced and released, including Sony’s award-winning 5000 BLANKETS starring Anna Camp and Rob Mayes -- and the Netflix Family Original, THE MAIN EVENT starring Adam Pally, Seth Carr and Tichina Arnold. He also wrote the Peacock... Read More →

Naren Shankar

writer Star Trek: The Next Generation, For All Mankind, Grimm, Farscape, The Outer Limits; executive producer/showrunner The Expanse, CSI

Daniel Stewart

writer/Co-EP Sweet Tooth; writer Swamp Thing, The Mist

Daniel Stewart is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer. Most recently, he worked on all three seasons of “Sweet Tooth” for Netflix, based on Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel and Executive Produced by Susan and Robert Downey, Jr. Prior to that, Daniel wrote for DC’s highly-acclaimed... Read More →

Saturday October 26, 2024 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT
St. David's Episcopal Church Sumners Hall 301 E 8th St, Austin, TX 78701

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