Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Austin Fest Film
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1801 Salina St.
Austin, TX 78702
512-478-4795 (voice)
512-478-6205 (fax)
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http://www.austinfilmfestival.com
Email:
screenplay@austinfilmfestival.com
Contact: Steven DeBose, Director of Script Competitions
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The Ultimate Runway
For thirty years, Austin Film Festival has been catapulting writers into life-changing careers. With one of the most noteworthy competitions among Hollywood tastemakers, AFF consistently yanks newcomers from the isolation of their desks and ushers them into the bustling world of film and television. Whether your dream is to sign a contract, land an agent, learn from an industry icon, or take home the coveted Bronze Typewriter Award, it’s simple: you can’t win if you don’t enter.
Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowship
This opportunity will provide a one-on-one mentorship in Los Angeles for two fellows – one writer or writing team with a feature script and one writer or writing team with a teleplay pilot – selected from the Final Round of this year’s competition.
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Deadline/Entry Fees
Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
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Earlybird | March 25, 2025 107 |
Feature Screenplay: $60 // Teleplay & Shorts: $50 |
Regular | April 22, 2025 135 |
Feature Screenplay: $70 // Teleplay & Shorts: $60 |
Late | May 27, 2025 170 |
Feature Screenplay: $90 // Teleplay & Shorts: $75 |
Notification: Notifications for all entrants will be sent by mid-September
Rules
See website: https://austinfilmfestival.com/submit/screenplay-and-teleplay-submissions-2/rules-screenplay-and-teleplay/Awards
Awards range from $1000-$5000 per winner. Winners also receive reimbursement of roundtrip airfare (up to $500, excluding frequent flyer miles); hotel reimbursement at the Film Festival (up to $500); and the AFF Bronze Typewriter Award.
***All entrants will receive complimentary Reader Comments, a brief overall summary of the readers' notes.***
Austin Fest Film
Contact
1801 Salina St.
Austin, TX 78702
512-478-4795 (voice)
512-478-6205 (fax)
Web:
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com
Email:
screenplay@austinfilmfestival.com
Contact: Steven DeBose, Director of Script Competitions
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Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Contact
1801 Salina St.
Austin, TX 78702
512-478-4795 (voice)
512-478-6205 (fax)
Web:
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com
Email:
screenplay@austinfilmfestival.com
Contact: Steven DeBose, Director of Script Competitions
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Austin Fest Announces Contest Finalists
The Austin Film Festival has announced the 2013 Screenplay & Teleplay Competition Finalists. The Finalists were determined by a panel of industry judges including producers, agents, and managers. The winners will be announced during this year’s Conference at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday, October 26 at the Austin Club.
The 2013 Screenplay & Teleplay Finalists are (listed by category and alphabetically by title):
SCREENPLAY – COMEDY
Accordion People by America Palacios
Don’t Talk to Irene by Pat Mills
Hooking Up by Jacqueline C. Fitzgerald
MEGA by Antoinette Mullins
Snuff Film by R. J. Daniel Hanna
SCREENPLAY – DRAMA
Between by Tobias Iaconis & Mikki Daughtry
Cutting Numbers by Morgan von Ancken
Early Plus Infinity by Clark Carroll
Last Waltz of Vienna by Brian Lee Weakland
Lost Children by Erin KLG
Mistress of Marmont by Charmaine DeGrate
Sadik Goes Viral by Amanda Farmer & Brent W Graham
ENDERBY ENTERTAINMENT AWARD
(For feature scripts in all genres with an original concept and distinctive voice that can be produced for under $5 million. The production company was founded by Rick Dugdale and Daniel Petrie, Jr.)
Acts of God by W. Reed Moran
The Hitch by Troy A. Miller
Hooking Up by Jacqueline C. Fitzgerald
No Way Out by Laura Durkay
Sabria by Jesse Reffsin
DARK HERO STUDIOS SCI-FI AWARD
(Open to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Surrealism, Myth/Legend and Fantastical Storytelling. The studio was founded by David Hayter and Benedict Carver.)
Booster by Kai Crouse
Godless by Tobias Iaconis & Mikki Daughtry
Life Copy by April Rouveyrol
Lightspeed by Brian Siegele
The Promise by Bob Bowersox
DARKWOODS PRODUCTIONS HORROR AWARD
(Open to thrillers, dark suspense, sci-fi, and macabre themes. The production company was founded by Frank Darabont.)
The Hitch by Troy A. Miller
Memoirs of a Stalker by Thomas W. Hodgkinson, Daisy Aitkens & Alastair Gourlay
Monster Man by Brian McAuley
Target Audience by Michael Raymond
Welshgate by Stephen Tramontana
TELEPLAY – AMC ONE-HOUR PILOT
At the Foot of the Mountain by Andrea Janakas
Granite State by Brian Wilkins & S. Michael Gutierrez
Hooked by Joshua Carlebach
Liberators by Eric Haywood
Samaritan by LaToya Morgan
TELEPLAY – SITCOM PILOT
Boys School Ladies by Matt Whitaker
Ed Connors: Life Coach by Rodney Altman & Matt McHugh
Good Behavior by Clay Keller
I Love Monsters by Julie Cross
Matt Out of Hell by Kyle Stegina & Josh Lehrman
TELEPLAY – ONE-HOUR SPEC
Castle: “Foil Play” by Claire Newman
Doctor Who: “Ghost Town” by Alyssa Weinberger
Shameless: “Heroines” by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders
TELEPLAY – SITCOM SPEC
Awkward: “High School” by Rachel Reuben & Collin Kittredge Smith
Girls: “Golden Birthday, Golden Showers” by Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe
New Girl: “Stop Sucking” by Ariel Karlin
Updated: 10/09/2013
Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Contact
1801 Salina St.
Austin, TX 78702
512-478-4795 (voice)
512-478-6205 (fax)
Web:
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com
Email:
screenplay@austinfilmfestival.com
Contact: Steven DeBose, Director of Script Competitions
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