Austin Film Festival

John August (writer/director The Nines, writer Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Go, Big Fish, Titan A.E., Charlie’s Angels and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle)

Craig Baumgarten, Baumgarten Management

Richard Bever, Chill Entertainment

Bryan Bertino, (Alone- 2009, The Strangers)

Shane Black (Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lethal Weapon 1 & 2)

David Boxerbaum, APA Agency

Curtis Burch, Latitude Productions

Michael Connolly, Mad Hatter Entertainment

Shauna Cross (Whip It- 2009)

Aadip Desai, Northwest Screenwriters’ Guild

Andrew Dignan, Your Half Media Group

Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush 

Channing Dungey, ABC Studios

Warren Etheredge, The Warren Report

Juliana Farrell, Groundswell Productions

Matthew Federman (Jericho, E-Ring, Judging Amy, 2003 AFF Drama Teleplay Winners)

Bob Fisher, Wedding Crashers

Andrew Form, Platinum Dunes

Mary John Frank, Paramount Vantage

Mickey Freiberg, ACME Talent & Literary Agency

Dan French (“Dennis Miller”, “The Late Late Show”, “The Best Damn Sports Show Period”)

Mike Fry, RingTales (co-creator of the comic Over the Hedge)

Brad Fuller, Platinum Dunes

Matthew Gross, ABC Studios

John Lee Hancock (writer The Blindside, A Perfect World, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Alamo, director The Alamo, The Rookie)

Steven Harrigan (The Last of His Tribe, Beyond the Prairie: The True

Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, King of Texas, The Colt)

James V. Hart (August Rush, The Last Mimzy, The Snow Goose, Sahara, Tuck Everlasting, Contact, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Hook)

Patrick Hegarty- 2007 AFF Latitude Award Winner, videogame writer on Ghostbusters, Eragon and Rataouille

Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard, The TV Set, Orange County, Zero Effect)

Chris Keane, screenwriter and author of Romancing the A-List

Lauren Levy. Miramax

Chris Mass, Chalk (2006 Austin Film Festival Narrative Feature and Audience Award Winner)

Michael McDonald, ABC Studios

Brian McGreevy, The Fury -2010

Jimmy Miller, Slugger - 2007 AFF Adult Family Winner

Rachel Miller, Tom Sawyer Productions

Jeff Nathanson (story credit - Indiana Jones 4, New York, I Love You, Rush Hour (2& 3), The Terminal, Catch Me if You Can, Speed 2, and writer/director of The Last Shot)

Brad Neely, Animator

Gayla Nethercott, Don Buchwald and Associates, Inc

Susan O’Connor, videogame writer (Gears of War and Bioshock)

Dan Petrie Jr. (Beverly Hills Cop, The Big Easy, Shoot to Kill, Turner & Hooch, Toy Soldiers)

Turk Pipkin (filmmaker -Nobility, Actor- Sopranos, Friday Night Lights, Waiting for Guffman, The Alamo and Scanner Darkly)

Polly Platt, Producer (Broadcast News, Bottle Rocket, The Evening Star, Say Anything, Pretty Baby) and writer (A Map of the World, Pretty Baby, Target)

Steven Puri, Kurtzman/ Orci Productions

PJ Raval (filmmaker/cinematographer The Cassidy Kids, Gretchen, Wake, Lead Role: Father, Trouble the Water, Trinidad, The Two Bobs)

Eric Red (100 Feet, The Hitcher, Near Dark)

Scott Richter, 2007 Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Winner

Phil Rosenthal- (Everybody Loves Raymond, Coach, Man in the Family, A Family For Joe)

Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Dead Man’s Chest, The Curse of the Black Pearl, Déjà vu, Shrek, The Mask of Zorro,  Aladdin)

Kelly Sanders, Truly Indie

Stephen Scaia (Jericho, E-Ring, Judging Amy, 2003 AFF Drama Teleplay Winners)

Andrew Shea, Filmmaker (The Corndog Man, Santa Fe), Associate Professor UT Radio-Television-Film Department

Lee Shipman (The Fury -2010)

Tom Skerritt, (Co-Founder of The Film School, Director and Actor- MASH, A River Runs Through It, Harold and Maude, The Turning Point, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Contact)

Chuck Sklar (Everybody Hates Chris, The Chris Rock Show)

Alex Smith, Creative Director UTFI (co-writer/director The Slaughter Ruler, Son of the Gun)

Andrew Smith, (co-writer/director The Slaughter Ruler, Son of the Gun)

Kirsten Smith (The House Bunny, She's the Man, Ella Enchanted, Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You)

Yaphet Smith, Screenwriter

Bob Soderstrom, screenwriter, 2002 AFF Screenplay Competition Winner

Shana Stern, screenwriter

Matt Summers, Saturn Films

Beau Thorne, (Max Payne)

Ember Truesdell, Flower Films

Robert Townsend (Phantom Punch (2008), Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2008), Black Listed, The Meteor Man, The Five Heartbeats, Hollywood Shuffle)

Mark Vahradian, Di Bonaventura Pictures

Meta Velantic, Producer

Matthew Weiner (Mad Men, Sopranos)

Herschel Weingrod (Trading Places, Kindergarten Cop, Twins)

Karl Williams (Punctured, 2005 AFF Comedy Winner and Sci-Fi Winner, Super Ego, 2005 Burnt Orange Winner)