Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of audio and video media and digital files of recordings of Austin Film Festival & Conference panel presentations from 1994-2008. The recordings document the proceedings of the Conference. Panel topics include On Writing, Up Close and Personal, The Art of the Pitch, and many others. Notable panelists include Michael Ian Black, Sydney Pollack, Shane Black, Larry Wilmore, Jim Dauterive, Mike Judge, Oliver Stone, Harold Ramos, Judd Apatow, Bill Broyles, Bill...

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This panel will make clear who may join the WGA, what membership entails, how membership affects present andfuture deals and what general protections and obstacles WGA membership creates both for new and establishedwriters. The long-rumored, looming WGA strike will be discussed as well. Come get the whole story before sellingthat million dollar script. Two sides of audiocassette tape, about 47 minutes total.

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Commerce versus art is the focus of this panel. New Internet developments such as streaming and convergence,digital production, and cinema exhibition are examined from a legal and technical perspective. What are these newtechnologies and how do they balance clients' commercial interests and creative expression? Is artistic integrityenhanced or threatened by the economic immediacy that the Internet offers? Two sides of audiocassette tape, about 76 minutes total.

Scope and Contents This session is designed to provide attendees with a checklist of the basic legal issues governing their development, production, distribution and marketing phases of producing and releasing a film. It will provide short overviews on a variety of subjects including Preparing and Negotiating Literary Option Purchase Agreements, Actor, Crew and other Production Agreements, Working arrangements with Labs, Film Festivals, Clearing Union/Guild (SAG and WGA Experimental/Low Budget Films, etc.) and...