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10th Annual Austin Film Festival update

Hey everyone,

The 10th Annual Austin Film Festival will be honoring two screenwriting greats:

FRANK PIERSON -- DISTINGUISHED SCREENWRITER AWARD 2003
Writer/Director/Producer and President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose credits include Presumed Innocent, the Oscar winning Original Screenplay Dog Day Afternoon, the Oscar nominated Screenplays Cool Hand Luke and Cat Ballou, the Emmy nominated "Conspiracy" and "Citizen Cohn," and most recently Showtime's "A Soldier's Girl."

TOM FONTANA -- OUTSTANDING TELEVISION AWARD 2003
Writer/Producer/Creator, whose credits include creating HBO’s prison drama “OZ” and writing the Emmy Award winning television series "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "St. Elsewhere," the Emmy nominated television movies "Homicide: The Movie" and "America: A Tribute to Heroes," and most recently the upcoming "Strip Search."

Some of our conference panelists will include:

Jessica Bendiger (First Daughter '04, The Truth About Charlie, Bring it On, Sex and the City)
David Benioff (Troy '04, 25th Hour (also novel))
Les Bohem (The Alamo '03, writer/creator Sci-Fi TV's "Taken," A Nightmare on Elm Street 5)
Linwood Boomer (creator "Malcom in the Middle," writer "3rd Rock from the Sun," "Night Court")
Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean '03, Shrek, Aladdin)
Al Jean (writer/producer "The Simpsons," writer "Sledgehammer," writer/creator "The Critic")
Anne Rapp (Dr. T. and the Women, Cookie’s Fortune)
Mike Rich (Radio ’03, The Rookie, Finding Forrester)
Scott Rosenberg (Die Hard 4: Die Harder, Gone in Sixty Seconds, High Fidelity, Beautiful Girls)
Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz (Meet the Fockers '04, Antz, director American Pie, writer/director About a Boy)

For a complete list of our confirmed panelists check out our website (www.austinfilmfestival.com) where you can also find an exclusive interview with Brian Helgeland, writer of Mystic River, Man of Fire, and L.A. Confidential and writer/director of The Order and A Knight's Tale.

For any information or questions visit our website or call me (Trace Pitts) at 1-800-310-3378. See you October 9-12!

Trace Pitts
Conference Director
Austin Film Festival
The Austin Film Festival is a non-profit, class
501 (c)(3) organization.
 
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