2024 Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference

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11:30am CDT

Opening Remarks Austin Club

1:00pm CDT

Meet Cute, Again: The Rom Com Resurgence St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary The Future of Storytelling presented by TooFar Media The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Assembly Room Pitch Competition #1 St. David's Episcopal Church Vestry 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 Indie Film Track: Big Stories in Small Packages Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room 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 Second Rounders and Above: A Producer's Perspective from the Inside Out with Lauren Shuler Donner St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary

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

9:10pm CDT

Affogato Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

11:00pm CDT

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

9:00am CDT

Pitch Competition #4 St. David's Episcopal Church Vestry Room

10:45am CDT

On the Making of Matilda Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Mansfield Room Writing at Pixar: Inside Out 2 Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Pennybacker Room

1:30pm CDT

Fun for the Whole Family St. David's Episcopal Church Bethel Hall

4:45pm CDT

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

11:00pm CDT

Filmmakers Happy Hour (Producers Badge required) Pour Choices

9:00am CDT

A Conversation with Rian Johnson The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom

10:45am CDT

Inside the Writers Room: Succession Central Presbyterian Church

12:30pm CDT

On Challengers: A Conversation with Justin Kuritzkes The Stephen F Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel Capital Ballroom Personal Pitching Workshop Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Lamar Room What Do You Want? The Key Ingredient for Your Story and Your Writing Life St. David's Episcopal Church Sanctuary Industry Roundtable: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film & Television St. David's Episcopal Church Crail BC

4:45pm CDT

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

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

7:45pm CDT

Party People Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

12:00pm CDT

Filmmaker Lunch (Invitation only) Cooper's BBQ

3:45pm CDT

A Better Place Rollins Theatre at the Long Center

7:00pm CDT

The Last Showgirl The State Theatre

8:20pm CDT

Shorts Program 3: The Looking Glass Galaxy Theatre 6

8:45pm CDT

The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia Galaxy Theatre 9

3:50pm CDT

Shorts Program 7: Anatomy of Love Galaxy Theatre 5

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

7:15pm CDT

Nightbitch The Paramount Theatre

9:00pm CDT

Lady Parts Galaxy Theatre 5

3:30pm CDT

Affogato Galaxy Theatre 6

7:00pm CDT

The Room Next Door - Closing Night Film The Paramount Theatre

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