2018 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule: Full Schedule

2:30pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: Madrigal

A stubborn IRS agent uncovers a nasty conspiracy when he tries to collect taxes from an unusual client in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Written by: Chance Muehleck

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Thursday October 25, 2018 2:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading

3:00pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: Disposable Necessities

In the future, death and aging are of little concern to the super wealthy when they can simply occupy the fresh corpse of a poor person. As one family faces the moral implications of buying eternal life, they learn what it really means to be alive.

Written by: Neil McGowan

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Friday October 26, 2018 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading, Workshop

4:30pm CDT

Script Reading: Spade by AFF alum and On Story supporter Billie Jean Van Knight

Spade, the television series, is based on the true story of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. deputy marshal in Indian Territory, and his desperation to be the best despite hostile conditions and a conspiracy to end his life.

Written by: Billie Jean Van Knight

Friday October 26, 2018 4:30pm - 5:30pm CDT
The Driskill Hotel, Crystal Room presented by Simplecast

Script Reading

5:00pm CDT

Podcast Script Reading – It Makes a Sound

A woman on a tenacious mission to remind her decaying hometown of the musician who should be its most famous resident.

Join Jacquelyn Landgraf, creator, writer, co-director, and star of It Makes a Sound, a serial fiction podcast on the Night Vale Presents Network/PRX, as she presents a sneak peek of Season 2!

Panelists

Jacquelyn Landgraf

creator/writer/co-director/star It Makes A Sound on Night Vale Presents/PRX

Jacquelyn is the creator, writer, co-director, and star of It Makes A Sound, a serial fiction podcast with music on the Night Vale Presents Network/PRX. One of Vulture’s “Most Anticipated Podcasts of 2017,” the cast includes Annie Golden, Siobhan Fallon, Melissa Mahoney, Nate... Read More →

Friday October 26, 2018 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
The Driskill Hotel, Maximilian Room presented by Roadmap Writers

Script Reading

Tracks Podcast Track

2:45pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: Masquerade

A lover, a wife, a husband, a real estate agent, and a used car salesman - every marriage bed has its cast of characters.

Written by James Hutchison

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Saturday October 27, 2018 2:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading, Workshop

5:00pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: Balls Out

When an immature pro beach volleyball player gets arrested after a night of debauchery, her childhood friend and partner finally leaves her for a new, better teammate.

Written by: Angela Bourassa

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Saturday October 27, 2018 5:00pm - 5:45pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading, Workshop

7:00pm CDT

Script Reading: The Hauntrepreneur

Recuperating from a recent tragedy, the Truckle family seeks to boost morale with a homegrown haunted house. With Halloween approaching, they seek the help of the mysterious Hauntrepreneur – a most peculiar man armed with Boo-loons and animatronic RoBats who revels in all things spooky. But when the Truckles’ lives are turned upside down by their home’s ghoulish remodel, they start to wonder just how haunted their family may be.

Panelists

Scott Rosenberg

writer Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Venom, Con Air, Beautiful Girls

Scott Rosenberg has written the screenplays “THINGS TO IN DENVER WHEN YOU’RE DEAD”, “BEAUTIFUL GIRLS”, “CON AIR”, “DISTURBING BEHAVIOR”, “GONE IN 60 SECONDS”, and “HIGHWAY”.He co-wrote “HIGH FIDELITY” and “KANGAROO JACK”. As well as created and produced... Read More →

Sponsors

Roadmap Writers

Saturday October 27, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
The Driskill Hotel, Maximilian Room presented by Roadmap Writers

Script Reading

1:15pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: Particular Disposition

On Friday, the twenty-seventh of November 1835, James Pratt and John Smith became the last two men in England to be executed for sodomy. The play follows their story - from meeting each other to their last moments together in Newgate Prison - through the eyes of their mutual friend and cause of their conviction and death, William Bonill.

Written by: Benjamin Fulk

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Sunday October 28, 2018 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading, Workshop

3:00pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: The Rest Stop at the End of the Universe

In the infinite expanse of space anything can happen... but almost nothing ever does to the only two employees of a remote intergalactic gas station. But when space pirates attack and leave them to die, they must face the infinitely unlikely odds against them.

Written by: Sam Suksiri

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Sunday October 28, 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading, Workshop

5:30pm CDT

Script Reading Workshop: Flesh and Blood

Small-town Liberty is good at producing two things: coal and dark family histories. Dutiful high school senior MIRIAM is ready to shake off its dust, but her domineering parents expect her to take over the family mine. She wants to honor her father and mother, or whatever—but does that mean protecting their monstrous secret too?

Written by: Jordan Light

Seven scripts have been chosen from this year’s group of Semifinalists and Finalists in the Screenplay, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions to be read aloud in our Script Reading Workshops. These selected scripts will be performed by a group of actors in an intimate setting. The read-throughs will be bare-bones. With only actors and the words on the page, it is the ultimate testament to the quality of the written word.

Sunday October 28, 2018 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, State Board Room 701 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Script Reading, Workshop