Actually, Small & Creepy is the name of 2011 AFF Distinguished Screenwriter recipient Caroline Thompson’s website, but it’s also a pretty decent descriptor of some of the intimate, wonderfully weird scripts she’s written, including three collaborations with Tim Burton.

Thompson’s first produced screen credit was Edward Scissorhands; other Tim Burton projects include The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. Also on the CV: The Addams Family, Homeward Bound, and The Secret Garden, as well as www.smallandcreepy.com, a website devoted to short films – specifically, “the bizarre and the outrageous, the strange and the twisted, the outside and the anxious” – that Thompson runs with her husband Steve Nicolaides.

Thompson joins previously announced honoree Hart Hanson (Bones), who’ll receive AFF’s Outstanding Television Award at the 18th Annual Austin Film Festival and Conference, which, you might be interested in knowing, runs from Oct. 20-27 this year.

This article appears in Dome Sweet Dome.

A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands.

SUPPORT US

A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...