Austin Film Festival's On Story®

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Austin Film Festival’s On Story is a one-hour series that offers a look inside the creative process from today’s leading writers, creators and filmmakers.

Austin Film Festival's On Story is recorded live at Austin Film Festival and at our year-round events. Searching for a show that your core listeners and audiences can get behind? Rooted in the fine craft of storytelling, and the creative process, On Story is for any film or TV fan curious to learn more!


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This week on On Story, we’re joined by comedy mastermind Alec Berg for a career conversation on his process of writing, directing, and producing th...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, action sells! It delights! But without a good story to support it, it totally bombs. Even the most intricately choreographed...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we’re joined by lauded writer, director, and producer, James Gray, for a conversation on his incredible career, starting wit...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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This week on On Story, we'll hear from playwright and screenwriter Sofia Alvarez, who will discuss the difference between writing for the stage and...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we’re joined by co-creators Stephen Merchant and Elgin James for a conversation on their dark comedy crime-thriller series, ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we'll hear from screenwriter Andrew Lanham and celebrated character actor Tim Blake Nelson on their new film, Just Mercy. An...

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we’re joined by Academy-award winning producer Dede Gardner for a conversation on her extraordinary career, including her wo...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, filmmaker John Lee Hancock and his neo-noir film The Little Things, starring Denzel Washington, Jared Leto, and Rami Malek. ...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week we're discussing fact versus fiction with The Underground Railroad writer Jihan Crowther and King Richard screenwriter Zach Baylin. Later...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we’re joined by Stephen Merchant for a conversation on his career in comedy writing including co-creating the original UK se...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story we’re joined by writer and creator Michael Schur, who’s had his hand in some of the biggest TV comedy shows of the last decad...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we’re joined by co-creator, showrunner, and writer Lang Fisher for a conversation on writing the acclaimed Netflix comedy se...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, writing partners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss join creator Catherine Reitman and producer Sarah Green for a conversation abo...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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This week on On Story, we'll hear from screenwriter Liz Hannah, whose first screenplay, The Post, became an Academy Award-nominated film. And later...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we're taking a retrospective look at Donnie Darko, with screenwriter Richard Kelly. Later in the episode, we're joined by Th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story, we’re joined by Academy-award winning producer Dede Gardner, and Oscar-nominated writer-director Sarah Polley for an inside ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Samuel D. Hunter speaks at Austin Film Festival in 2022, Credit: Jack Plunkett
This week on On Story, we’re joined by playwright and screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter to discuss his work writing AFF’s 2022 Opening night film, The ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from award-winning screenwriter, playwright, producer and director, Kemp Powers who wrote the critically acclaimed...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story we’ll join Breaking Bad creator & showrunner Vince Gilligan for a retrospective look at the 1971 cult-classic The French Conn...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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This week on On Story we’re joined by The Walking Dead showrunner, Glen Mazarra for a conversation about his work. Later in the episode, we’re talk...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 54:00