2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

Steph Swope

Minnow Mountain

President

Austin, TX

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Do you love writing animation like we love making animation? Check out our work! On Story/AFF 2024 is using Minnow Mountain's rotoscoped animation for bumpers featuring such greats as: Celine Song, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jeff Nichols, Karyn Kusama, and Max Borenstein. In addition to this, Minnow Mountain produced the rotoscope character animation for Undone, seasons 1 (2019) and 2 (2022) on Amazon Prime. We also animated 2022's Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, directed by Richard Linklater (Netflix). And we created the animation for Tower, an Emmy-winning documentary feature released in 2016 (Amazon Prime). Minnow Mountain produces animation independently, and for clients of all sizes. Let's taco 'bout it!

11:30am CDT

Opening Remarks Austin Club

2:45pm CDT

Character Development in Animated Storytelling St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall

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

11:00pm CDT

Late Night Welcome Party (Producers or Conference Badge required) Vulcan Gas Company

9:00am CDT

Inside the Development Process: Television St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary Women in the Room Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room

10:45am CDT

Inside the Development Process with Josephson Entertainment St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall Making Your Audience Laugh The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom Writing the Spec That Will Get You Repped St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary

1:30pm CDT

Script to Screen: Bojack Horseman Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room

3:15pm CDT

Short Story, Big IP: Selling an Original Idea St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary State of the Industry: Features The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom

4:45pm CDT

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

7:00pm CDT

Shorts Program 10: Best Lil' Shorts in Texas 2 Rollins Theatre at the Long Center Workshop of Horrors Presented by Vertigo Entertainment and Phantom Wines (Producers Badge required) Austin Club

9:00pm CDT

Scriptnotes, Live! The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom

9:45pm CDT

Operation Taco Gary's The State Theatre

10:00pm CDT

Shorts Program 2: Adult Supervision Required Galaxy Theatre 6

11:00pm CDT

Filmmakers Happy Hour (Producers Badge required) Pour Choices

10:45am CDT

An Unfiltered Look Inside Hollywood: Kangaroo Jack St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall Let Me Speak to Your Manager St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary The Screenwriter's Guide to Adapting IP Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room

12:30pm CDT

Personal Pitching Workshop Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Lamar Room The Nuts and Bolts of Development Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room

3:00pm CDT

Wearing Multiple Hats: Writing and Producing Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room

4:15pm CDT

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

4:30pm CDT

Wine Reception Presented by Bogle Family Vineyards (Producers, Conference, Weekend, Lone Star, or Press Badge required) Austin Club

4:45pm CDT

Rejection: Saying Yes To All That No St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary State of the Comedy Industry presented by YMH Studios St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall The Screenwriter's Guide to Unreliable Narrators Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room

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

9:00pm CDT

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror - Double Feature! The State Theatre

11:00pm CDT

Heart of Film Conference Party (Producers, Conference, Weekend, or Press Badge required) Vulcan Gas Company

10:00am CDT

"Hair of the Dog" Brunch (Producers Badge required) Ranch 616

11:30am CDT

Get the Greenlight: Financing Your Film The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom The Ins and Outs of Overall Deals Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room What Managers Want Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room

1:15pm CDT

Art of Collaboration: The Writer-Executive Relationship Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room On The Simpsons: A Conversation with Matt Selman The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom

2:30pm CDT

SUBTOPIA: The Story of Hueco Canyon Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

3:00pm CDT

On the Making of Everybody Still Hates Chris Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room Personal Pitching Workshop Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Lamar Room

6:30pm CDT

Long Head The Hideout Theatre

4:15pm CDT

Shorts Program 13: Animated Shorts Galaxy Theatre 6

5:00pm CDT

Shorts Program 2: Adult Supervision Required Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

6:30pm CDT

Time Travel is Dangerous Galaxy Theatre 9

6:45pm CDT

Texas Cult House Galaxy Theatre 5

7:45pm CDT

Party People Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

4:00pm CDT

Operation Taco Gary's Galaxy Theatre 5

6:05pm CDT

Shorts Program 14: Produced Digital Series 1 Galaxy Theatre 9 Girls Aren't Funny Galaxy Theatre 9

6:40pm CDT

Adjunct The Hideout Theatre

7:00pm CDT

The Last Showgirl The State Theatre

8:45pm CDT

The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia Galaxy Theatre 9

9:00pm CDT

Tummy Monster The Hideout Theatre

1:15pm CDT

The Stones Are Speaking Galaxy Theatre 9

3:30pm CDT

Phantoms of the Sierra Madre The Hideout Theatre

4:00pm CDT

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

7:00pm CDT

Shorts Program 10: Best Lil' Shorts in Texas 2 Rollins Theatre at the Long Center Shorts Program 15: Produced Digital Series 2 Galaxy Theatre 9 Long Head Galaxy Theatre 9 You’re Invited to Tuscan’s 5th Birthday Party! Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

6:15pm CDT

SUBTOPIA: The Story of Hueco Canyon Galaxy Theatre 6

7:30pm CDT

Shorts Program 8: Return of the Living Shorts Galaxy Theatre 5

10:00pm CDT

Closing Night Party (Producers Badge required) The Creek and The Cave