{"id":468911,"date":"2026-10-17T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468911\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:00:28","slug":"austin-film-festival-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468911\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Film Festival &#038; Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"\">The 2026 Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference will feature well over 100 different feature film and short film programs, along with lectures and conversations with a variety of well-known movie and television writers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Highlights of the film festival include opening night film The Debut starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti and written\/directed by Jesse Eisenberg;  I Play Rocky; Ray Gunn, written and directed by Brad Bird; Behemoth! starring Pedro Pascal; Club Kid, starring and written\/directed by Jordan Firstman; Elsinore starring Andrew Scott; and more.<\/p>\n<p>Films will be premiering alongside AFF\u2019s Annual Writers Conference, featuring awardees and panelists across all sectors of the industry. Among the speakers\/panelists will be Brad Bird; Is God Is writer\/director Aleshea Harris, producers J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules; Jason Katz, Head of Story at Pixar; and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Screenings and other events will take place at the Hogg Memorial Auditorium, Bullock Museum IMAX, Texas Spirit Theatre, and other locations. For a full schedule of events, go to the festival website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference will feature well over 100 different feature film and short&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[133086,133087,133085,133088,159488,159489,159490,159491,132,134,133,577,1636,1637,159492,159493,159494,159495,159496,159497,159498,159499],"class_list":["post-468911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-133086","tag-133087","tag-133085","tag-133088","tag-159488","tag-159489","tag-159490","tag-159491","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-festivals","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-occurrence202610291825","tag-occurrence202610301220","tag-occurrence202610311200","tag-occurrence202611011230","tag-occurrence202611021250","tag-occurrence202611031225","tag-occurrence202611041230","tag-occurrence202611051615"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}