The Wordsmiths is a subgroup (also called special interest group or focus group) of the Austin Film Meet dedicated to indie film related writing. This includes low-budget screenwriting for narrative, documentary and commercial, short films and features, television, web video series and new media, as well as other film-related writing such as copywriting for web and print, PR writing, bio-writing, and business plan writing for film projects and film industry professionals.
This group is a second generation incarnation of The Screenwriters of Austin Meetup group, formerly run by Leah Weinberger and Clint Watson. You may visit the old meetup.com site for this group, however, all future events will be posted on the the Events page. For email reminders, please subscribe to the Mailing List.
Events
Wordsmiths will meet roughly twice monthly on Tuesday nights at 7pm at various Austin locations. Please check the Events page for location. All attendees please sign-in; attendance is recorded and counts towards membership requirements.
Meetings will begin with a round of introductions followed by a special topic and will end with open networking.
Meetings will be lead by volunteer presenters within the community who have some expertise of value to offer the group. Submit Presentation ideas online.
Event Topics
We are currently seeking skilled individuals to present relevant topics at Wordsmith meetings. If you have an idea for a presentation you’d like to give, or just a suggestion for a topic you’d like to attend, please submit presentation ideas to us.
Programs of Interest to Writers
Script Exchange Program
This program offers members an opportunity to get detailed, useful feedback on their scripts. For more info visit our Script Exchange page.
Group Video Projects
The Wordsmiths will be an integral part of the Group video projects. They will often we responsible for creating the story for the provided contest or project task at hand. For more information visit our Group Projects page.
Script Contests
Several times each year the Wordsmiths will host a script contest for a specific competition. For example, we might hold our own competition for the DVXUser contest theme. The winning script would be produced by an AIM/AFS team and sent to production through the post-production focus group. We are open other contest ideas. Please, submit suggestions to me@austinfilmmeet.com.
A focus group for writers of indie film and new media
