2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

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Nick Julian

12:00pm CDT

Exhibit Hall Omni Austin Downtown Hotel Bridge Ballroom Foyer

7:00pm CDT

Film and Food Fundraiser (Separate ticket required) Fair Market

11:30am CDT

Opening Remarks Austin Club

1:00pm CDT

How to Work the Writers Conference Austin Club Meet Cute, Again: The Rom Com Resurgence St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary On Rewriting: Handling Notes & Avoiding the First Draft Trap St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall Script to Screen: American Psycho The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom The Future of Storytelling presented by TooFar Media The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Assembly Room The Myth of The 3 Act Structure presented by Jacob Krueger Studio Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room Industry Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film & Television St. David's Episcopal Church Crail BC Second Rounders and Above Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television St. David's Episcopal Church Sumners Hall Young Filmmakers Program: Smartphone Cinema Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room

2:45pm CDT

Anatomy of an Antagonist with Noah Hawley Central Presbyterian Church Character Development in Animated Storytelling St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall Hartchart: True Detective: Night Country The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Assembly Room Indie Film Track: Big Stories in Small Packages Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room On the Making of Red, White & Royal Blue The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom On YA Drama: A Conversation with Julie Plec Austin Club The State of Filmmaking in Texas: Film Commissions, Incentives and the "Tex-Factor" Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room Pitch Competition #2 St. David's Episcopal Church Vestry Room Industry Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film & Television St. David's Episcopal Church Crail BC Filmmakers Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film & Television St. David's Episcopal Church Sumners Hall Second Rounders and Above: A Producer's Perspective from the Inside Out with Lauren Shuler Donner St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary Young Filmmakers Program: High Stakes, Simple Stories Central Presbyterian Church Smoot Hall

4:15pm CDT

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

5:00pm CDT

Opening Night Reception (Producers Badge required) Voodoo Room

6:30pm CDT

Shorts Program 13: Animated Shorts Rollins Theatre at the Long Center