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Featured Panelists
Paul Feig
2016 Extraordinary Contribution to Film award recipient
Marta Kauffman
2016 Outstanding Television Writer award recipient
Nancy Meyers
2016 Distinguished Screenwriter award recipient
Panelists
Justin Agnew
director/producer ProGamer; Master of Architecture NDSU
Tim Albaugh
Moderator; Professor at UCLA; Director of Hollins University Graduate...
Kent Alterman
President Comedy Central
Summer Ash
Director of Outreach for Columbia University's Department of Astronomy
Michelle Ashford
creator/executive producer Masters of Sex; writer The Pacific, John...
Minhal Baig
writer/director One Night, Hala
Steven Balvanz
co-director The Harvest Run
Stephanie Bang
Moderator
Janine Barchas
professor UT Austin; creator What Jane Saw
Steve Barr
producer Chronesthesia; writer Born To Dance
Kim Bass
writer In Living Color, Sister, Sister, Kenan & Kel; writer/director...
Carter Bays
co-creator/executive producer How I Met Your Mother; writer American...
Greg Beal
Director of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Craig Behenna
Amy Bench
cinematographer/filmmaker House of Elegance, The Ville, Loves Her...
Amy Berg
writer/executive producer Counterpart, Da Vinci's Demons, Eureka,...
Emily Best
founder/CEO Seed&Spark; co-creator F*ck Yes!
Geoff Betts
Business Agent WGA East
Asmara Bhattacharya
writer Stone; 8-time AFF Screenwriting Competition Second Rounder;...
Dennis Bishop
Moderator; producer The Trip to Bountiful, Dexter; production...
Shane Black
writer/director Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; writer Lethal...
Brandon Bloch
Director of Commercial and Branded Content
Christopher Boone
Moderator; writer/director Cents; contributor No Film School
Max Borenstein
creator Minority Report (television show); writer Godzilla (2014),...
David Boxerbaum
Senior Agent, Paradigm Talent Agency
VJ Boyd
writer/producer Justified, The Player, Snowfall
Melissa Breaux
Manager at Washington Square Arts & Film
Evan Bregman
Director of Programming, Rooster Teeth
R.B. Brenner
Moderator; Director of the School of Journalism, UT Austin
Kelly Jo Brick
writer Pause, The Jewel in the Woods; contributing editor TVWriter.com
Jeffrey Brown
Production For Use; producer Punk in Africa, No No: A Dockumentary,...
Tom E. Brown
writer/director Pushing Dead
Susan Brunig
Post Production Pixar; AFF Screenwriting Competition Finalist
Burnie Burns
Chief Creative Officer/Co-Founder, Rooster Teeth
Jacob Burns
writer/director Electric Nostalgia; co-founder Planet Thunder...
Douglas Caballero
Chief Business Development Officer, Colaborator
Wendy Calhoun
writer/producer Justified, Revenge, Nashville, Empire
Katie Cates
Smitha R. Chadaga
co-founder Doctors on Set
Jill Chamberlain
Moderator; author The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of...
Izzy Chan
director/producer/editor The Big Flip, Sugared Peas
Deepak Chetty
director Hard Reset 3D; visual effects artist; cinematographer
Perrin Chiles
CEO/co-founder Adaptive Studios; executive producer Project...
Stephen Clark
Partner at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman
Jacque Edmonds Cofer
writer/producer Martin, Living Single, Moesha; creator/showrunner...
Ryan Colucci
writer/director/producer Suburban Cowboy
Matt Cook
writer/co-producer Triple Nine, By Way of Helena; co-writer Patriots...
Doreen Copeland
Supervising Producer, Rooster Teeth
Tom Copeland
Moderator; Professor at Texas State University
Aaron Covington
writer Creed; director
Mike Covino
Ned Crowley
writer/director Middle Man
Greg Curtis
Moderator; Former Editor of Texas Monthly
Alexandra Daddario
Bryan J Davidson
Creative Executive for Walt Disney Animation Studios
Graham Davidson
executive producer Shipping Wars, Marshal Law: Texas, Skin Tight;...
Deniese Davis
producer Awkward Black Girl, Guidance, The Choir, Sequin Raze,...
Bob Dearden
writer iZombie, Play It Again, Dick
Emily Dell
Director of Outreach & Events
ScreenCraft
Chris Demarais
Head Writer Live Action
Greg DePaul
writer Bride Wars, Saving Silverman
Etta Devine
Diani & Devine Prod
writer Bee & Puppycat; writer/producer/director Diani & Devine Meet...
Gabriel Diani
Diani & Devine Productions
Writer Director Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse; writer Don't Be...
Brandon Dickerson
writer/director Sironia, Victor, When Jack Went Glamping; director A...
Andrea Dimity
Literary Manager/ Producer at Pannon Entertainment, Inc.
Katie Dippold
Presenter of the 2016 Extraordinary Contribution to Film award recipient
writer The Heat, Ghostbusters (2016), Parks and Recreation
Andrew Disney
writer/director Crunch Time
Zoe Donaldson
Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder
Lindsay Doran
producer Stranger Than Fiction, Sense and Sensibility, Nanny McPhee,...
Rick Dugdale
president Enderby Entertainment; producer An Ordinary Man, Blackway,...
Matt Dy
Moderator; Screenplay/Teleplay Director Austin Film Festival
Charles Ealy
Moderator
Owen Egerton
writer/director Follow; Moderator
Carl Ellsworth
writer Red Eye; co-writer Disturbia, The Last House on the Left...
Stephen Falk
creator/executive producer/showrunner You're The Worst; co-executive...
Bobby Farrelly
co-writer Dumb & Dumber; co-writer/director There’s Something About...
Kristi Felton
VP of Scripted Programming at AMC/Sundance TV
Kieran Fitzgerald
writer Snowden, The Homesman, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
Josh Flanagan
director/writer/editor
Maria Frank
co-founder Doctors on Set
Michael Fry
writer/co-creator Over The Hedge; writer/illustrator The Odd Squad...
Kelly Fullerton
writer The Fosters (S1-2), Next Caller, Awkward (S1-2)
Brian Gannon
Director AFC
Chet Garner
Moderator; host/executive producer/writer The Daytripper
Greg Garrett
Moderator; author; professor at Baylor University
Melissa Georges
Counsel, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Shawn Gerrard
writer/director My Viola; producer Head on Pictures Inc.
David Gil
marketing director/programmer Violet Crown Cinemas
Will Gluck
writer/director Friends with Benefits, Easy A, Annie; co-creator The...
Jake Goldberger
writer/director Don McKay, Life Of A King, Holding Patterns
Jorge Gonzalez
Moderator
Kurro Gonzalez
Tony Hale
actor Veep, Arrested Development, Stranger Than Fiction, The Heat,...
John Hamburg
writer/director Along Came Polly, I Love You, Man, Why Him? (2016);...
Kevin Hamedani
Moderator; co-writer/director ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, Junk
John Lee Hancock
writer/director The Alamo, The Blind Side; director The Rookie,...
Fabienne Harford
Moderator
James V Hart
writer Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Contact, Tuck Everlasting,...
Phil Hay
writer/producer The Invitation; writer Crazy/Beautiful, Ride Along,...
Jason Headley
writer/director A Bad Idea Gone Wrong, It's Not About the Nail, At...
Tim Herlihy
writer Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer,...
Chuy Hernandez
David Hickey
director/writer Homestate, Baghdad Texas, Brownwood, Brothers. Dogs....
Christina Hodson
writer Shut In (2016), Untitled Transformers Stand-Alone (2018),...
Karol Ann Hoeffner
Moderator
Jennifer Howell
Head of Feature Development at Dreamworks Animation
Carlyn Hudson
writer/director The Big Spoon; director Distance; commercial director
Matt Hullum
CEO/Co-Founder Rooster Teeth
Bradley Jackson
writer/co-producer Balls Out; co-creator/co-writer Crunch Time;...
Jacob Jaffke
producer In a Valley of Violence, Sleepwalk with Me, Don't Think...
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson - Gran Via Productions; executive producer Better Call...
James Kaelan
Julie Kalceff
creator/writer/director/producer Starting From Now; writer/director...
Angela Kang
writer/co-executive producer The Walking Dead; writer Terriers
Aaron Kaplan
Manager Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
Cullen Kelly
founder/creative director Republic Ventures Group
Lena Khan
writer/director The Tiger Hunter
Adam Kolbrenner
Co-founder Madhouse Entertainment
Lucy Kreutz
writer/director/producer Quaker Oaths
Justin Lader
writer The Discovery (2017), The One I Love
Richard LaGravenese
writer/director/producer; credits include: The Last Five Years, P.S....
Jody Lambert
director/co-writer Brave New Jersey (AFF 2016 World Premiere);...
Cort Lane
Senior Vice President of Animation & Family Entertainment at Marvel
Samantha Levenshus
Managing/Literary Director at Stage Rights; writer
Morgan Long
International Consultant for The Gersh Agency
Rosie Lourde
actor/producer Starting From Now, Skin Deep
Rick Loverd
Michael MacCambridge
Moderator
Sarah Malkin
VP of Programming at New Form
Zosia Mamet
Jenny Marchick
Sony Pictures Animation
Senior Vice President of Creative Development
Justin Marks
writer The Jungle Book (2016), creator/executive producer Counterpart...
Melanie Marnich
writer Big Love; writer/producer The Big C, The Affair, the upcoming...
Frank Marshall
producer Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Color Purple, Seabiscuit, The...
Chris Mass
writer/producer Chalk, Bobbie Sue, Free Birds
Jono Matt
Thaddeus D Matula
director Pony Excess, Brian and the Boz
Marcie Mayhorn
Moderator; Writer's PA "A.P.B."
Craig Mazin
co-host ScriptNotes; writer Identity Thief, The Hangover Parts II &...
Aaron McAdams
co-director The Harvest Run; writer/director Party Like the Queen of...
Cindy McCreery
Moderator; writer Free Willy: Escape From Pirate's Cove, Steven...
Michael McCullers
writer Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,...
Charlie McDowell
director The One I love, Silicon Valley; co-writer/director The...
Zahir McGhee
writer/producer Scandal, Private Practice
Joe Menendez
director From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Ladrones (2015)
Elizabeth Meriwether
creator/executive producer New Girl; writer No Strings Attached
John Merriman
Moderator; actor Mustang Island, You Hurt My Feelings
Spiros Michalakis
Ashley Miller
writer Thor, X-MEN: First Class, Power Rangers (2016), Big Trouble in...
James Andrew Miller
Moderator; author Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s...
Elizabeth Mims
Senior Film Program Director Austin Film Festival
David Misch
writer/producer Mork and Mindy, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Saturday...
Raamla Mohamed
writer/producer Scandal, Still Star-Crossed
Barbara Morgan
Moderator; Executive Director/Co-Founder Austin Film Festival
Tess Morris
writer Man Up
Grace Moss
Executive, Entertainment Diversity Initiatives for NBC Entertainment
Jason Neulander
writer/director The Intergalactic Nemesis, Hit & Run, Buttercup
Scott Neustadter
writer (500) Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault in Our...
Jeff Nichols
writer/director Loving (2016), Midnight Special, Mud, Take Shelter,...
Michael Noll
Moderator; Program Director Writers’ League of Texas
Jim O'Heir
actor Parks & Recreation, Middle Man
Matthew Odam
Allen Odom
Moderator
Becka Oliver
Moderator; Executive Director of the Writers' League of Texas
Tracy Oliver
co-writer Barbershop 3, Girl Trip, The Neighbors, The Start-UP,...
Tiffany Paulsen
writer Nancy Drew, Adventures in Babysitting
Paula Pell
writer Sisters, Saturday Night Live
Maya Perez
writer/producer On Story
Nicole Perlman
writer Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel (2019), Pokémon (2018)
Alisa Perren
Moderator
Daniel Petrie, Jr.
partner Enderby Entertainment; writer Beverly Hills Cop, The Big...
Angelo Pizzo
writer/producer Rudy, Hoosiers; writer/director My All American
Matt Porter
Writer/Director
Glen Powell
Laura Lee Prather
Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP
Mark Protosevich
writer/co-producer The Cell, Oldboy; writer Thor, I Am Legend
Anne Rapp
writer Dr T and the Women, Cookie's Fortune; script supervisor Funny...
Alex Jenkins Reid
writer/co-creator Resident Advisors; writer Angie Tribeca, Sing It!,...
Pamela Ribon
writer Moana, Smurfs: The Lost Village, Untitled Wreck-It Ralph...
Joanne Richardson
Practice Leader Media & Entertainment at Hiscox Insurance
Scott Richter
Moderator
Edward Ricourt
writer of Now You See Me; consulting producer/writer Jessica Jones,...
Peter Rienecker
Vice President/Senior Counsel Original Programming at HBO
Jose Rivera
writer The Motorcycle Diaries, The 33, On the Road, Letters to...
James Roday
actor/writer/director Psych; director Gravy, Rosewood, Rush Hour,...
Alvaro Rodriguez
co-creator/executive producer SEIS MANOS (Netflix, 2019)
Jason Romaine
writer Making a Scene with James Franco, Camp; creator Soho Haus Rules
Elizabeth Rose
writer/director The Law of Averages; co-writer/co-producer CHUM
Dan Rosen
writer The Last Supper; writer/director Freeloaders; writer/producer...
Scott Rosenberg
writer High Fidelity, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Con Air, Beautiful Girls
Phil Rosenthal
creator/executive producer/host I'll Have What Phil's Having,...
Roy Rutngamlug
Moderator
Jennifer Salke
President, NBC Entertainment
Kelly Sanders
Anne Cofell Saunders
co-executive producer Timeless; writer Battlestar Galactica, 24;...
Erika Schmidt
Creative Development Associate Pixar Animation Studios
Paul Sedillo
founder/CEO Republic Ventures Group
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