2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Molly Smith

2:45pm CDT

On the Making of Red, White & Royal Blue The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom

4:15pm CDT

Pitch Competition #3 St. David's Episcopal Church Vestry Room

5:00pm CDT

Opening Night Reception (Producers Badge required) Voodoo Room

7:30pm CDT

The Piano Lesson - Opening Night Film The Paramount Theatre

9:00am CDT

Fiction Podcasting: Industry Insiders Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Lamar Room Script Library St. David's Episcopal Church Crail A

10:45am CDT

Inside the Development Process with Josephson Entertainment St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall Writing the Spec That Will Get You Repped St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary

1:30pm CDT

A Thin Line Between Love & Hate: Exploring Character Dynamics Austin Club Finding Your Project's Home St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary Semifinalists and Above Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television St. David's Episcopal Church Sumners Hall

3:15pm CDT

Short Story, Big IP: Selling an Original Idea St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary Second Rounders and Above: Mock Writers Room St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall

4:10pm CDT

Shorts Program 4: The Ties That Bind Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

4:45pm CDT

Film Texas BBQ Supper Presented by Texas Association of Film Commissions (Producers Badge required) Pease Park

6:45pm CDT

*smiles and kisses you* Galaxy Theatre 9

7:00pm CDT

Workshop of Horrors Presented by Vertigo Entertainment and Phantom Wines (Producers Badge required) Austin Club

9:00am CDT

Level Up: How to Break Into Writing for Video Games Central Presbyterian Church Smoot Hall Pitching Your Personal Story Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room Second Rounders and Above: Forging a Career as a Writer and Filmmaker St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall Second Rounders and Above: Mock Writers Room Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room

10:45am CDT

Personal Pitching Workshop Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Lamar Room The Screenwriter's Guide to Adapting IP Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room Industry Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Writing for Fiction Podcasts St. David's Episcopal Church Crail BC

12:15pm CDT

Awards Luncheon presented by Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation Austin Club

12:30pm CDT

On Adapting The Piano Lesson: A Conversation with Virgil Williams Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room On Challengers: A Conversation with Justin Kuritzkes The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom

3:00pm CDT

A Conversation with Marissa Jo Cerar St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall On The Last Of Us: A Conversation with Craig Mazin The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom Semifinalists and Above Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television St. David's Episcopal Church Sumners Hall

4:15pm CDT

Shorts Program 9: Best Lil' Shorts in Texas 1 Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

4:45pm CDT

Rejection: Saying Yes To All That No St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary The Writer-Manager Relationship Presented by Lit Entertainment Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room

6:00pm CDT

Screenwriter’s Happy Hour Presented by Nickelodeon Writing Program (Invitation only) Cooper's BBQ

7:00pm CDT

Shorts Program 6: You Get What You Give Galaxy Theatre 6

7:30pm CDT

Pitch Finale Party (Producers, Conference, Weekend, Lone Star, or Press Badge required) Austin Club Writers' Tears Producers Lounge (Producers Badge required) Austin Club Game Room