2015 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule

John August’s screenwriting credits include Go, Big Fish, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and both Charlie’s Angels movies. His feature directing debut, The Nines, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. For television, he has created series for The WB, Fox and ABC. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical version of Big Fish. His company, Quote-Unquote Apps, makes several apps of interest to... Read More →

Craig Mazin is the writer of the hit feature film Identity Thief and co-writer of the blockbuster comedies The Hangover Part II and Part III. His upcoming projects include Universal Film's The Huntsman, starring Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt; an adaption of the best-selling novel Three Bags Full for producer Lindsay Doran and director Scott Frank for... Read More →

Screen-writing team Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have proven themselves as some of Hollywood’s most versatile and sought-after writers with their witty, fresh and intelligent storytelling. | | The pair wrote the hit Fox Searchlight comedy/romance, (500) Days of Summer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, which was nominated for "Best Feature - Comedy" at the Golden Globe Awards and earned them an Independent... Read More →

Nicole Perlman graduated NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2003 with a double major in Dramatic Writing and Film Production. Since then she has gone on to win the Tribeca Film Festival's Sloan Grant for Science in Film for her screenplay "Challenger," which also placed on the 2006 Black List. The same year she was named one of Variety Magazine's Top Ten Writers to Watch, and was listed in The Playlist's Ten Screenwriters On the Rise in 2013... Read More →