2017 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule

Kelly Jo Brick is a television and documentary writer and producer. She wrote the Telly Award-winning film PAUSE and the Frank Lloyd Wright documentary The Jewel In The Woods. She is a contributing editor for TVWriter.com where she writes The Write Path, an interview series that... Read More →

Screenwriter, producer and director Daniel Petrie, Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay for his first produced script, the box-office hit Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy. Next came Petrie’s original screenplay of the romantic thriller The Big Easy, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Petrie then served as producer of the thriller Shoot to Kill, starring Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger, and as executive producer of the comedy... Read More →

Jimmy Mosqueda is a lifelong California resident, the son of Mexican immigrants, and a graduate of Stanford University. His high school dark comedy VALEDICTORIAN was a finalist in the Comedy Screenplay category at the 2015 Austin Film Festival. After Austin, Jimmy took the script to the 2016 Sundance... Read More →