2022 Austin Film Festival & Conference

Greg Garrett has been a panelist and moderator at the Austin Film Festival for more than fifteen years. At the Festival, he has interviewed luminaries such as Lawrence Kasdan, James Hart, Peter Hedges, and Damon Lindelof, and led dozens of conversations on craft, genre, adaptation... Read More →

Pamela Ribon (Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Bears) is a writer, performer, director, and producer. This year sees the release of her animated short series MY YEAR OF DICKS, which had its world premiere at SXSW 2022, where it won a Special Jury Recognition for Unique Vision in... Read More →

Vanessa Taylor has worked widely in television, most recently as Co-Executive Producer on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Her feature films include “Hope Springs,” “Divergent,” “Hillbilly Elegy,” and “The Shape of Water,” for which she received an Oscar nomination... Read More →

Elgin James was a fixture in Boston’s hardcore punk scene and a member of a multi-ethnic national street gang that targeted neo-Nazi skinheads. After spending a decade and a half in the gang. James left for Los Angeles where he was shepherded by the Sundance Institute Feature Film... Read More →