Conversations in Film

Barbara Morgan, Executive Director of AFF, and Dan Petrie, Jr., Hollywood writer, director, producer.

The Austin Film Festival has been celebrating the writer's role in film for over a decade. In October, there is a huge film festival and conference. But there are some interesting events throughout the year, too. Yesterday, FFP and I heard Dan Petrie, Jr. talk about writing screenplays. Then we saw "Beverly Hills Cop" which he got writing credit for after the script had been through a Hollywood saga. He took some Q&A after that and put up with a reception where he was peppered with questions from would-be screenwriters. (Not us...we are dilettantes, quite happy to hear about the creative process and watch the results while writing other things. Well, FFP writes a column. I'll stick to my motto: "Pretending to write but only blogging.")

I left the AFF banner in here so you could observe the barbed wire logo. We have participants and films from all over the world. But the festival likes to play with its Texas roots with its logos and posters.