2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

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 →

Ifeanyi Osarodion Dike was born in and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. He studied medicine in Nigeria and briefly practiced as a doctor before leaving medicine to pursue acting and filmmaking. After his first acting debut ‘Green White Green’ premiered at the Toronto International Film... Read More →

Elvira Ibragimova is an LA-based comedy filmmaker. Elvira is a half Jewish, half Muslim political refugee; hailing from sunny, Soviet-era Uzbekistan, she landed in Brooklyn at age ten. After an initial career in architecture, she turned to filmmaking. She studied comedy and directing... Read More →

Shruti Parekh is an Atlanta-bred, Brooklyn-based filmmaker who tells intimate and incisive stories of life on the margins of society. Her award-winning work spans fiction, documentary, journalism and animation. Most recently, she won the CAPE/Janet Yang Productions Julia S. Gouw Short... Read More →

Callie Carpinteri is an award-winning LA-based writer/director originally from South Florida. While studying film at the University of Florida, Callie wrote and directed numerous short films and was the recipient of the highly competitive Television Academy Internship Program for... Read More →