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An Overview of the 2025 Austin Film Festival Awardees and Screenplay Winners

An Overview of the 2025 Austin Film Festival Awardees and Screenplay Winners

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November 18, 2025

2025 Austin Film Festival Honorees

The Austin Film Festival has named its distinguished 2025 award recipients, celebrating excellence across screenwriting, producing, and filmmaking. This year’s honorees showcase a blend of groundbreaking creativity and significant contributions to the industry.

Key Award Recipients

  • Rian Johnson received the illustrious Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting.
  • Christine Vachon was honored with the Polly Platt Award for Producing.
  • Greg Kwedar & Clint Bentley earned the Writers’ Writer Award.
  • Yvette Lee Bowser took home the Outstanding Television Writer Award.
  • Christopher McQuarrie was recognized for Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking.

Winners of the Screenplay & Teleplay Competitions

The 2025 festival also crowned winners across diverse screenplay and teleplay categories, highlighting new voices and original stories in drama, comedy, sci-fi, horror, and digital series formats.

Drama Feature Screenplay Award (Presented by Writers Guild of America, East)

The Other Side of 25 by Becca Hurd

Comedy Feature Screenplay Award

Lauren Lindsay Can Go To Hell by Kate Beacom & Lacey Jeka

Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay Award

On the Other Side by Lanre Olabisi

Horror Screenplay Award (Presented by Vertigo Entertainment)

SHIFT by Danny Salemme

Drama Teleplay Pilot Award

Dr. Nash by Cassidy Nash Davis

Comedy Teleplay Pilot Award

Crapshoot by Drew McInturff

Drama Teleplay Spec Award

Yellowjackets: Thicker than Water by Cynthia He

Comedy Teleplay Spec Award

Abbott Elementary: Skip Skampi’s by Scott Olsen

Enderby Entertainment Award

The Other Side of 25 by Becca Hurd

TV Comedy Fellowship (Sponsored by Nickelodeon Writing Program)

Medusa: An Animated Series by Ruby Mainieri

YMH Studios Comedy Fellowship

Follow The Money by Patrick Franklin

Big Indie Screenwriting Fellowship

Roots of Conflict by Ari Mostow

The Donners’ Company Award

Believe/Bерим by Ryan Werner

Wonder Project | Stand Together Fellowship

27 Cows by Christopher Holt

AMC One-Hour Pilot Award

Courier Girl by Anna Zabel

Adult Comedy Animated Series Fellowship (Presented by Starburns Industries)

Time Traveling Cum Cops by Austin Schauer

Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowships

Lady Em by Cristina Pippa (TV) and Black Silk by Patrick Michael (Feature Film)

Short Screenplay Award

Did You Have a Good Time? by Kevin Talley

Scripted Digital Series Award

String City by Suemedha Sood

Fiction Podcast Award

Dial it Up by Philip Thorne & Oystein Brager

Playwriting Award

Shepherd by Gregory Paul

Film Competition Jury Winners

The festival’s film competition honored a variety of outstanding works across feature films, shorts, documentaries, and digital series, showcasing new talent and compelling storytelling.

Narrative Feature

A Man Walks Down the Street, writer/director: Yuval Hadadi

Documentary Feature

Searching for Satyrus, writer/director: Rena Effendi

Honorable Mention: Bite to Bite, director: Kelly Lipscomb

Comedy Vanguard Feature

Theatre People, writer: Michael B. Breen

Dark Matters Feature

Cruel Hands, writers: Al & Matthew Kalyk / director: Al Kalyk

Narrative Short

Foxhole, writer/director: Nick Dugan

Narrative Student Short

Recess, writer/director: Jan Saczek

Documentary Short

We’re Fine, director: Misha Karpenko

Animated Short

Beyond Measure, writer/director: David Ferrier

Produced Digital Series

Bliss Talent, writers: Rachel Ravel & Elvira Ibragimova / director: Elvira Ibragimova

Enderby Entertainment Fellowship Award

My Only Friend is a Robot Named Beans, writer/director: Anika Kan Grevstad

Young Filmmakers

Time Will Tell, writer/director: Peyton Cooper

These categories qualify for consideration for an Academy Award®

Audience Choice Awards

Festival attendees also selected their favorite films across several categories, capturing the public’s voice in this celebrated annual event.

Marquee Feature

The Boy From St. Croix, Director: Scott Duncan

Narrative Feature

American Baby, writers: Tanya Leonova and Ellen Rodnianski / Director: Ellen Rodnianski

Documentary Feature

Stronger Than You Think, Directors: Janice Molinari and Melissa Forman

Comedy Vanguard Feature (Tie)

Crystal Cross, Writer/Director: Richie James Follin
Yesterday Island, Writer/Director: Sam Voutas

Dark Matters Feature

Sacrificios, Writers: Mauricio Chernovetzky, Alexander Iosjpe / Director: Mauricio Chernovetzky

Texas Independent Feature

Valentina, Writers: Noelle Forougi, Tatti Ribeiro / Director: Tatti Ribeiro

Narrative Short (Tie)

More Than Dust, Writer/Director: Julia Weisberg Cortés
Uncle Johnny, Writer: Angela Giarratana / Director: Margaux Susi

Narrative Student Short

Recess, Writer/Director: Jan Saczek

Documentary Short

The Night Herons, Writer/Director: Will Hammond

Animated Short

Beyond Measure, Writer/Director: David Ferrier

Produced Digital Series

Betsy Fucking Ross, Writer/Director: Kayla Baken

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