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Saturday, October 27 • 10:00pm - 11:00pm
The State Of The Scare Late Night Horror Podcast & Panel -- Live on the Airwaves!

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No doubt about it, the Horror and Thriller genre these days is killing it. From the explosion of creativity on film (Get Out, It Follows, It, A Quiet Place, Raw...) to the murderous domination of macabre episodic (Fear The Walking Dead, AHS, Castle Rock, Mindhunter), we are witnessing a renaissance of the dark delights for our terrifying times. Join the Writers Panel podcast and ScreenCraft at the Austin Film Festival in the witching hour (and between the parties!) for a “State of the Scare” roundtable conversation. In this spookiest time of year, top talents of this frightful genre will come together for a discussion on trends, storytelling, and what makes a great scare.

This panel is presented by ScreenCraft Media.
Moderators
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Ben Blacker

writer; producer/host The Writers Panel podcast; co-creator, Thrilling Adventure Hour
Ben Blacker is best known as the creator, with his writing partner Ben Acker, of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged show in the style of old time radio, that ran monthly for ten years to sold out crowds, an LA staple. The show ran as a podcast for five years and won awards and garnered acclaim everywhere from the LA Weekly to Rolling Stone.With Acker, Blacker has sold pilots to USA... Read More →

Panelists
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Scott Beck

writer/producer A Quiet Place ; writer/director Haunt, Nightlight
Filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods first met as sixth-graders in their hometown of Bettendorf, Iowa. After discovering a shared interest in cinema, the duo began collaborating on stop-motion movies with their Star Wars action figures. This collaboration continued into high school... Read More →
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C. Robert Cargill

C. Robert Cargill is a novelist, former film critic, and a screenwriter on Marvel’s Doctor Strange and both of the Sinister films. His recent novel Sea of Rust was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He lives and works here in Austin, TX.
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Alvaro Rodriguez

writer From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series; co-creator/executive producer Seis Manos
Born and raised along the Texas-Mexico border, Alvaro Rodriguez is executive producer/co-creator of Seis Manos, a Netflix original adult-animated series, currently in production in cooperation with Powerhouse Animation and Viz Media for release in 2019. A coming-of-age feature set... Read More →
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Bryan Woods

writer/producer A Quiet Place ; writer/director Haunt, Nightlight
Filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods first met as sixth-graders in their hometown of Bettendorf, Iowa. After discovering a shared interest in cinema, the duo began collaborating on stop-motion movies with their Star Wars action figures. This collaboration continued into high school... Read More →
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Yasemin Yilmaz

writer The Protector, The Exorcist; co-writer Lalo's House
Yasemin Yilmaz goes where the story takes her. She was born in Turkey and immigrated to California with her family when she was fourteen years old. A hundred episodes of Pokémon, four Harry Potter novels, and six months later, she spoke English like a native. Being bicultural, Yasemin... Read More →

Sponsors
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Saturday October 27, 2018 10:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
The Driskill Hotel, Ballroom
  Conference, Panel

Attendees (173)