2018 Winners Austin Film Festival
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Fiction Podcast Award
The Rest Stop at the End of the Universe
By Samuel Suksiri
Talking Comedy Craft with Sam Suksiri
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When I meet Suksiri, he’s sitting at a table in a smart, gray blazer, sipping a cold brew coffee. In an artist’s way, his hair’s not exactly combed. He’s sociable, and we soon get to talking. He studied television writing in grad school. That was until a professor pulled him aside and said something along the lines of, “It seems like you’re here to write comedy. This is a TV screenwriting program, and you might end up a little disappointed.”
Austin Film Festival: 'The Rest Stop at the End of the Universe' wins Podcast Script Award
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Keep an ear open for "The Rest Stop at the End of the Universe," winner of 2018's Austin Film Festival Podcast Script Award. Written by Sam Suksiri of monthly sketch comedy podcast "Traffic Therapy," "The Rest Stop at the End of the Universe" was named Podcast Script Award winner at the 2018 Austin Film Festival. It emerged victorious after being selected for a final round alongside finalists "Alethea," "Forces," and "Welles D-11."
25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2019
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For two decades plus, Austin Film Festival (AFF) has celebrated and served those brave enough to dive into this daunting process, championing silver screen storytellers who’ve willed their gluttony for punishment into promising careers. For our fourth straight year, we’ve partnered with AFF to highlight this year’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch.
Austin Film Festival Unveils 2018 Script and Film Competition Winners
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The 2018 Script Competition Winners were chosen from a record field of 10,580 scripts entered in the screenplay, digital series, playwriting and fiction podcast competitions. Finalists were reviewed by an industry panel of judges including Wendy Calhoun (writer/producer Stage 19, Empire), Peter Craig (writer The Town, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I and II), James V. Hart (writer Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Christina Hodson (writer Transformers: Bumblebee, Birds of Prey), Ali LeRoi (writer/producer Everybody Hates Chris, Survivor’s Remorse), Nicole Perlman (writer Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel), Scott Rosenberg (writer Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom), Rodney Rothman (director Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, writer 22 Jump Street), Oren Uziel (writer 22 Jump Street, The Cloverfield Paradox) and Brian Yorkey (showrunner 13 Reasons Why, playwright Next to Normal), among others.