2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Greg Garrett has been a panelist and moderator at the Austin Film Festival for more than fifteen years. At the Festival, he has interviewed luminaries such as Lawrence Kasdan, James Hart, Peter Hedges, and Damon Lindelof, and led dozens of conversations on craft, genre, adaptation... Read More →

SHANON M. INGLES is an Emmy-winning interactive screenwriter, narrative designer and BAFTA member. She’s best known for her work on the highly anticipated game JUDAS, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, God of War: Ragnarok, Batman: The Enemy Within, Batman: A Telltale Series, Silent Hill... Read More →

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 →

Sean Collins-Smith (Story Editor, CHICAGO PD; Staff Writer, FIELD OF DREAMS) is a screenwriter and national award-winning journalist from Richmond, Virginia. A winner and 3-time finalist at the Austin Film Festival, Sean’s most recent pilot, SUICIDE MACHINES: A LIMITED SERIES, reached... Read More →