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Hey everyone,
Just wanted to give you guys a heads-up about the Austin Film Festival. It's a cool festival because whether you are a screenwriter or just a fan, you have all access to this list of confirmed panelists. So basically you can talk to them and ask them questions and go to parties with them. If you would like more information, you can checkout the website at www.austinfilmfestival.com or contact me with questions.

The AFF, going into its 12th year, is a nationally recognized film
festival and screenwriters conference—one of the select few in the U.S.
accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Each
year, the Festival brings a broad range of established and up-and-coming
directors, writers, and industry executives to Texas for a week of film
screenings, panels, and high-profile networking events.

Here's a list of screenwriters attending:
Award Recipient:
Distinguished Screenwriter Award Recipient: HAROLD RAMIS
Ramis is a screenwriter, director and actor whose filmography includes some of the most popular and influential comedies of our time – Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Ghostbusters, Back to School, Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Analyze This, Bedazzled, Analyze That, and his most recent directorial effort, The Ice Harvest. Mr. Ramis is the recipient of the American Comedy Award, the British Comedy Award, and the BAFTA (British Academy) award for screenwriting.

Screenwriter Panelists:
John Altschuler (“King of the Hill”, “The High Life”)
Judd Apatow (Fun With Dick and Jane, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, “Undeclared”, “Freaks & Geeks”, “The Critic”, “The Ben Stiller Show”,“The Larry Sanders Show”)
Jessica Bendinger (Stick It '06, First Daughter, The Truth About Charlie, “Sex & The City”, Bring It On)
Shane Black (Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang ’05, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Lethal Weapon 1 & 2)
Robert Blatt (Winner of the 2004 AFF Sitcom Teleplay Competition)
Les Bohem (The Alamo, “Taken”, Dante’s Peak)
Joe Conway (On the Rocks ’05, Undertow)
Jim Dauterive (“Monsignor Martinez”, “King of the Hill”)
Scott Frank (The Interpreter, Flight of the Phoenix, Minority Report, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Malice, Dead Again, Little Man Tate)
Stephen Gaghan (Syriana ‘05, The Alamo, Abandon, Traffic, “NYPD Blue”, “The Practice”)
Terry George (writer/director Some Mother’s Son, “The District”, co-writer/director Hotel Rwanda, writer The Boxer, In the Name of the Father)
Howard Gordon (“24”, “Angel”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “The X Files”)
Paul Haggis (Flags of Our Fathers ‘06, Crash, Million Dollar Baby)
Heather Hale (The Courage to Love, founder The Industry.LA)
Buck Henry (To Die For, Protocol, What's Up, Doc?, The Owl and the Pussycat, Catch-22, The Graduate)
Mike Jones (Evenhand, Automata, City of Ghosts)
Nicholas Kazan (Enough, Bicentennial Man, Frances, Fallen, Matilda, Reversal of Fortune, At Close Range)
Dave Krinsky (“King of the Hill”, “The High Life”)
Dan Petrie, Jr. (President of the Writers Guild of America, West, Beverly Hills Cop, The Big Easy, Shoot to Kill, Turner & Hooch)
Frank Pierson (President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Presumed Innocent, Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke)
Anne Rapp (Dr. T & the Women, Cookie’s Fortune)
Sam Riegel (Winner of the 2004 AFF Sitcom Teleplay Competition)
Gregg Rounds, screenwriter and television writer
Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha ’05, Practical Magic, Matilda, Little Women, The Perez Family)
Ted Tally (Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Before and After, The Juror, All the Pretty Horses, White Palace and The Father Clements Story)
Sharon Lee Watson (“The Education of Max Bickford”, “Crossing Jordan”, “The Fugitive”)
Bill Wittliff (A Night in Old Mexico ’06, The Perfect Storm, Legends of the Fall, Lonesome Dove, The Black Stallion)