Austin Film Festival to Honor Ed Wood Writers

Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski to receive Bill Wittliff Award

"...The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike has focused attention on the..."

May 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What the Screen Actors and Writers Strikes Mean for Austin

Hopes of a bumper production year fade as unions fight for a fairer future for their members

"...If there's been a single defining image of the ongoing strikes hitting the TV and film industries,..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AI, Strikes, and Burning It Down: Highlights of the ATX TV Festival

Celebration of the small screen becomes a war room for writers

"...It started with one person clapping. Then a row of people. Then a second row. A third, and so..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rally 'Round the Writers

Local WGA members take part in Day of Action

"...family for the holidays. But when the Screen Actors Guild member heard there was a Writers Guild of America..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

GalaxyCon and the Pros of Cons During a Strike

Touring fan convention comes to Austin with surprising star power

"...Broder realized that Austin lacked a major comic con of its own, he decided to make the city the..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Writers' League Writer's Resource

"...have in common? They all belong to the Austin Writers' League, the local literary guild that's come a long..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Books Feature

Legendary Producer Lauren Shuler Donner Heads to Austin Film Festival

Celebration of writers continues in writers strike

"...The Writers Guild of America strike is an effort to make..."

Aug. 8, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...back at 2007 and came up with our list of the 10 best movies of the year. After many..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

TV Eye

The first casualties of the writers' strike.

"...all the hubbub is about surrounding the newly minted Writers Guild of America strike may want to check out..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Big Squeeze

The writers' strike hits close to home

"...During the 1988 writers' strike, Tim McCanlies got a pilot's license and a..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

How to Run a TV Festival in a TV Strike

ATX TV Festival respects writers as they work and protest

"...be ATX TV Festival's big reboot. After two years of pandemic-era online programming, a smaller return in 2022, and..."

June 2, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

What to do when the writers' strike shuts down your favorite shows

"...time you read this, it could be over. The Writers Guild of America members went on strike at midnight..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

It's ba-ack: The season debut of The Wire marks the return of appointment television

"...season, which takes a hard look at the role of the press. I also wanted to see if I..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

New films from Jeff Nichols, Alexander Payne on the schedule

"...awaited new film from Jeff Nichols, is just one of the films just announced as part of the complete..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beyond the Picket Lines: SAG, WGA, and the Austin Industry

Local film professionals explain how they're navigating the strike

"...Two dates are burned into the memory of everyone working in film, TV, and commercials. First there..."

Aug. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

The End of the Cardigan-Clad Wise Man as We Know Him

"...to believe that his father's failings are the cause of Ben's unending capacity for emotional abuse. Speaking of daddy..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Film News

The Top 10 things that had people talking in Austin film and TV this year

"...they were actually shooting to start 2008. But the Writers Guild of America is on strike in a battle..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Women's Writes

From 'Thelma & Louise' to 'Nashville,' Callie Khouri has honed the art of telling women's stories

"...early May 1991 when I attended an advance screening of the latest film by Ridley Scott, the director of..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Festival Announces Jury and Screenplay Awards

Audiences still have chances to catch screenings

"...Oct. 31, you don't have to wait for some of the biggest news...."

Oct. 27, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

What Will Robert Do Next?

Robert Rodriguez talks about his next movie, DVDs, and his next possible collaborator.

"...was one big question at last weekend's Fangoria Weekend of Horrors: would guest of honor Robert Rodriguez spill the..."

Jan. 23, 2008 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces 2021 Award Winners

Larry Flynt for President, Disfluency take top nods

"...Austin Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2021 audience and jury awards, as well as..."

Nov. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces Audience, Jury Awards

Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain takes top award in both

"...The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, the true story of the 2011 death..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tony Gilroy to Receive Austin Film Festival Honor

Rogue One, Bourne writer to be awarded

"...action films and edgy political dramas. As the producer of House of Cards, writer of the Bourne trilogy, and..."

May 8, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

That Fighting Spirit

Revisiting Sweet Smell of Success

"...A Cookie Full of Arsenic..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

And Then Some

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

"......"

June 25, 1999 Books Feature

TV Eye

The writers' strike may be almost over, but we're gonna be feeling it for a while now

"...minute holdups, by the time you read this, the writers' strike should be over. That means the Oscar telecast..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Opie on Top

AFF to honor Ron Howard's extraordinary contribution to filmmaking

"...If the Austin Film Festival is playing six degrees of separation with this year’s honorees, it’s going to have..."

July 14, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

"Down There" gets its proper due on HBO.

"...rhymes with "Dinah," and it sounds like the kind of thing I'd have done if the word were part..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

'Tis the season for TV marathons, plus, mark your calendar for the last season of The Wire, and no news is bad news on the strike front

"...is by surfing through cable and taking in one of the many marathons the cable networks have concocted for..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Wrestling With Angels is an intimate, surprisingly extensive profile of one of this nation's greatest contemporary playwrights

"...is well worth the wait. Like the HBO miniseries of Kushner's amazing Angels in America (2003), Wrestling With Angels..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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