2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Josh Flanagan is an objectively hirsute writer-director. Raised across Texas and schooled at its titular university, Josh rode the rise of digital media as a lead creative and questionably-talented cast member at Rooster Teeth Productions, where he pioneered interactive web series with the Streamy-nominated Dead Little Roosters, shattered the Indiegogo record by raising $2.5 million for his first produced screenplay, Lazer Team, and created, directed, wrote for and ran the company’s largest series, including Day 5 and Arizona Circle. A prior reader and contest-placer at the Austin Film Festival, Josh’s two semifinalist features from 2022 – The Horse Killers and The Six-Day Detective – have since been scooped up by Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and Legacy Pictures, respectively. He was recently the Head Writer and Supervising Producer of the historical drama series Elkhorn on INSP Network, and has multiple projects in development, including multiple horror features and a historic thriller series co-written with John Rice (Blown Away, Windtalkers). Josh is also a combat veteran, having deployed at 19 as an infantryman during the first year of the Iraq war, earning a fancy commemorative coin for the raid that captured Saddam Hussein (though he laments Saddam did not personally award this to him). Josh currently lives in Los Angeles and serves as a mentor for the Writer’s Guild Foundation’s Veterans Writing Project.