2017 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule

Zack Akers graduated from Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film & Television. Zack’s work has appeared on HBO, ESPN, CBS, and NBC. In Summer 2015, he co-founded Two-Up with Skip Bronkie, and released Limetown, an audio drama reinvented for the podcast age. Limetown has... Read More →

Mac Rogers is an award-winning audio dramatist and playwright based in New York City whose new audio thriller Steal the Stars is releasing episodes every Wednesday. His audio/podcast dramas The Message and Lifeafter have been downloaded over six million times. His stageplays incl... Read More →

Lauren Shippen is the writer and creator of the science fiction podcast, The Bright Sessions. Since its debut in November of 2015, the podcast has won numerous awards, was named iTunes Best of 2016 and has been featured in Vox, Popular Science, Wired, The London Evening Standard... Read More →

Kc Wayland is an award-winning writer, producer, editor, director, and United States Army veteran whose film and audio work has been enjoyed around the world. His highly successful zombie audio Theater for the Mind, We’re Alive: A Story of Survival, appeared on the Nerdist Podcast Network and garnered over 58 million downloads since its debut. More recently Kc was a producer of the historical audio theater series and smash hit Bronzeville, starring Laurence Fishburne and Larenz Tate. You can visit him at... Read More →