2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Born and raised in the small island of Dominica located in the West Indies, Casey Baron moved to Austin after graduating from Florida State University with a degree in English – Editing, Writing, and Media. Casey was a part of the Austin Film Festival family for seven years running... Read More →

Gursimran is an Emmy award-nominated writer, director, and producer who has worked on some of the most compelling television shows in recent memory. Most recently she wrote and produced the critically-acclaimed TV series FALLOUT on AMAZON. Other credits include HBO’s Emmy Award-winning... Read More →

Chaz escaped horror by writing horror. He grew up in Tennessee where the KKK lynches the unlucky, where the Daughters of the Confederacy corrupt every student’s education, where slavery lives as conscripted prison labor, where monuments to human rights atrocities tuck themselves... Read More →

Kieran Fitzgerald has a BA in English from Harvard University and an MFA in fiction and screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers. He wrote and directed the feature documentary, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández, which was nominated for an Emmy in investigative journalism... Read More →