How to Succeed in Screenwriting

Austinite Vance Kotrla's screenplay advances in the Heart of Film Competition.

"...slot as finalist in the Austin Heart of Film screenwriting competition. Kotrla has clearly schooled himself in the art..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

ATX Television Festival Launches Pitch Competition

Clock's ticking: You've got 90 seconds to sell a TV show

"...kickstart a career. No, the ATX Television Festival Pitch Competition doesn't re-create the closed quarters, but 90 seconds is..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival: Film & Screenwriting Awards Announced

Grown in Detroit and Tobruk take top honors

"...Winners were also announced today for AFF's screenwriting competition......"

Oct. 24, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

International Competition

"...The Slow Escape, dir. Sativa Peterson (Final Draft Screenwriting Software)..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Competition Judges

"...Michael Hacker teaches classes in screenwriting in Los Angeles and is soon going to direct..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature

The Pen-Ultimate Fest

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference & Festival

"...and writer said during the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference's "Free for All" public panel discussion with Hopper..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

In & Out

"...Horrors, What About Bob?) a leg up on his competition but then, as Ready to Wear and Fierce Creatures..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Write Place

The Austin Heart of Film Festival

"...The conference and competition attracts the attention and participation of screenwriters from across..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Love & Air Sex

Bryan Poyser's Austin-made rom-com delivers splendidly on the promise of its raunchy title.

"...with the titular event, air sex is a real competition – the sexual equivalent of air guitar, performed clothed..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bridesmaids

The "wedding industrial complex" is under siege in this funny new comedy written by Kristen Wiig.

"...Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Jon Hamm. There's an old screenwriting saw about how to create conflict for a character:..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Short Cuts

Austinites make good as Nicholls finalists, Cinemaker presents local animation superstar Eric Patrick on optical printing, and Concordia gets its screen scream on Friday.

"...and Sciences' 2002 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting have been announced, and in a remarkable case of..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

SXSW Interview: Bradley Grant Smith’s “Male Gaze Gazes on the Male Gaze” in Our Father

Dick Wolf, Chicago, and the politics of writing female leads

"...Father, Bradley Grant Smith is officially a multi-hyphenate, adding screenwriting and directing to his previous credits as an actor,..."

March 26, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu

Austin Film Festival Drops and Gives Us 10

Lineup includes latest from Jonathan Demme, Alexander Payne

"...Film Festival’s full slate drops in mid-September, but the screenwriting-centric fest served up a 10-film teaser today, as well..."

Aug. 19, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Snapshots From the Fest

Interviews and winners from the Austin Film Festival

"...this sort from Kasdan, who received this year's Distinguished Screenwriting Award. (Previous honorees have included Buck Henry and Bill..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A League of Their Own

"...pal Shrake to talk through the rough spots. Shrake's screenwriting career had taken off with a bang. While still..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...the bad and get it out of the way. Screenwriting workshop teacher Aubrey Horton sends the disturbing news that..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Land of 1,000 Dances

Sundance Film Festival 1997

"...Approximately 600 submissions were received for the 18 dramatic competition slots, a drastic increase from the approximately 250 submissions..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...since it's the featured number in a go-go dancing competition. Also prominent in the soundtrack are Peggy Lee purring..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Fade In

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

"...the business ("Rules of the Game: The Basics of Screenwriting"; "Formatting Your Screenplay") and extend to the most excruciatingly..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

AHFF Wrap-Up

Every Picture Tells a Story

"...shared their insights into the art and practice of screenwriting in a non-stop whirlwind of weekend panels and workshops...."

Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Liza

"...Hoffman’s brother Gordy Hoffman, who received Sundance’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for the script) is anything but textbook. And..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

The third coast heads over to the West Coast for the Sixth Annual University of Texas at Austin Student Film Showcase, and in case you can't afford to fly out for the big shindig, they'll be screening the student works free at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown. Crafty.

"...is running out to submit that "Runyanesque" slice o' screenwriting magic of yours to the folks at the Ninth..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...Speaking of screenwriting, only three weeks remain to enter the competition for..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Iron Writer

"...festivals. "Nicole et Claude" tied for first place in competition for the University of Southern California's Student Film Awards..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Short Cuts

"...Some festival highlights include numerous collections of shorts in competition, a special screening of Richard Linklater's favorite short films,..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

"...It's also time again for the Lone Star Screenplay Competition sponsored by Crescent Films and PB Productions, open to..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Column

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...playing in the Sundance fest, only 32 are in competition - 16 narrative features and 16 documentaries; all the..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

Local screenwriter Aubrey Horton offers a comedy screenwriting workshop; aGLIFF screenplay competition winners announced (and more screenplay madness); Kevin Costner to be in attendance at the premiere of For the Love of the Game, the Alamo's Cannibal Film Series; and more news from the Austin film scene.

"...Noble. In addition, Horton will teach a pair of screenwriting workshops later this fall, one four-week class and one..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Last One Down the Mountain: Belated Thoughts on the Sundance Film Festival

Even virtually, the 2024 fest felt revitalized

"...narrative and documentary films in the U.S. and World competition categories. Below are some brief takes on films I..."

Feb. 21, 2024 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...radio station, because it would have been in direct competition with LBJ's own television station, part of his somewhat..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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