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Sunday, October 16 • 11:30am - 12:45pm
Indie Film Track: Microbudget Filmmaking in the Lone Star State

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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
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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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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Sunday October 16, 2016 11:30am - 12:45pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F Austin, Assembly Room
  Conference, Panel

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