2016 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule: Indie Film Track: Microbudget Filmmaking...

Indie Film Track: Microbudget Filmmaking in the Lone Star State

The biggest obstacle to getting your film made can be the budget, and a lot of extraneous costs can be eliminated in the script itself. Join this panel of Texas filmmakers as they discuss planning, incentives, and how to keep the vision big with a budget that is transcended by the breadth of imagination, almost as big as the Lone Star State itself.

This panel is presented by the Austin Film Commission.

Moderators

Brian Gannon

Director AFC

Brian Gannon has worked for the Austin Film Commission for four years and been the Director of the AFC for the past year and a half. Prior to that, he supervised content and video creation at Paul Bernhard Exhibits Design, worked in various areas of film production freelance and as... Read More →

Panelists

David Hickey

director/writer Homestate, Baghdad Texas, Brownwood, Brothers. Dogs. And God.; actor Homestate, The Leftovers, From Dusk till Dawn, Sin City, The Good Guys, Austin Stories

David Hickey was born and raised on the Eastside of Fort Worth, Texas. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Texas Tech University. He wrote and performed numerous one-man shows anddirected theatre in New York City and Texas before turning his attention to filmmaking. He hasserved... Read More →

Carlyn Hudson

writer/director The Big Spoon; director Distance; commercial director

Carlyn Hudson is a writer and director living in Los Angeles (and sometimes Austin). She studied acting at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and finished her undergraduate film degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Carlyn was one of the talents selected as a segment director for... Read More →

Lucy Kreutz

writer/director/producer Quaker Oaths

Louisiana (Lucy for short) is an Austin-based filmmaker. She has directed numerous short documentaries, including Jungle Fish, which won the Sundance Institute’s Sustainability Award in 2012. In 2014 she co-directed 61 Bullets, a feature documentary that played at the Austin Film... Read More →

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