2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Juel Taylor is a writer/director from Tuskegee, Alabama. After receiving his Film Production MFA from USC's School of Cinematic Arts, he stumbled into a career in screenwriting, and managed to avoid homelessness in LA's overpriced housing market.

Tony is a Southern California native. After attending film school at UCLA he was too afraid to enter the real world and so hid out in graduate film school at USC for a few years. When he couldn't put it off any longer he entered the 'work force' by gaffing on small projects and sleeping... Read More →