Austin Film Festival Names 21 Script Winners From 12,500 Entries
Summary
Zenas Cao's Sisters won the WGA East-presented drama feature prize, and Keith Rubin's Helicopter collected two sponsored awards.
"The 33rd Austin Film Festival named 21 writers and writing teams as winners of its script competition, chosen from more than 12,500 submissions and 78 finalists, Variety reported on Oct. 31. Zenas Cao won the drama feature award, presented by WGA East, for Sisters, and Sarah Peele won comedy feature for Pure Intentions. Bobby Marino won horror feature for Dyscopia, and Parker Rawlins and William Cowser won sci-fi feature for Louis and Puck.
Keith Rubin's Helicopter won two sponsored screenwriting awards. Robert Barker and Jim Russo received the YMH Studios Comedy Fellowship for Derek Darling, and Haley Mancini received the Roadmap Writers Representation Fellowship for I Want My Present Back. Aaron Roman won the short screenplay award for The Semicolon.
In the film competition, Harvey Zielinski's Sweet Milk Lake won narrative feature and Saoirse Ronan's directorial debut, the short Paper Plane, won narrative short. ""For more than 30 years, our competitions have been about recognizing great scriptwriting,"" executive director Barbara Morgan said. The festival runs through Nov. 4."
