2019 Austin Youth Film Festival

1. Huge Thank You to our 2019 Sponsors!
Roberto Almaraz
Louisa Baldwin
Ryan Blake
Taylor Crownover
Lexie DeStefano
Ana Dragomir
Alecia England
Michael Hornsby
Joseph Mayang
Will McIver
Nyah Mitchell
Riley Morrow
Berkeley Nylund
Maritza Saldana
Sadie Sweitzer
Riley Wheaton
And thank you to our 2018/19 Festival Interns!
Our internships begin in August and are an integral part of making
this special event happen! Interns get the chance to host Q&A’s,
pitch events, shoot a PSA, film events, and represent the festival
throughout the year!
Y’all Rock!
This project is funded in part by the Cultural
Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic
Development Department.

2.
Film Block 1 - 11:30AM
The Ballad Of Sam Steele
Austin High, Divided
The Party
Climate Change Is Real
Falling for You
Grounded
Revue
Now Hiring
Baseball Orange
Trepidation
Texas Teens for Beto
Waterlilies
About AYFF
The Austin Youth Film Festival is a non-profit organization that
seeks to create film opportunities for young, independent
filmmakers and foster a lifelong love for the media arts. Through
competitions, screenings, sponsored film shoots, and mentorships
we actively work toward providing events catered to youth in the
media arts.
Created in 2013 by local film teachers who saw the need for there
to be more media arts programming for youth, Alex Thomas
(Headwaters School) and Carrie Cates (Austin School of Film)
founded the festival and have watched it grow each year with great
success and praise. Our logo contest allows local youth to design
the AYFF logo used for all marketing materials throughout the year
(check out this year’s awesome logo designed by the supremely
talented Zach Goodwin!). We also produce a “Don’t Talk or Text” ad
for the Alamo Drafthouse that screens nationwide.
Ultimately, our goal is to extend the youth-oriented festival to
include more competitions, networking and internship opportunities,
field trips, screenings, and events exclusively aimed to education
and promote young filmmakers.
For more information visit AustinYouthFilmFestival.org
Film Block 2 - 1:00PM
Kids See Ghosts
Touch of Murder
Suburbia
Eighteen
War Zone
Austin, i love you so much
Noise
The Candy Conflict
Astrothunder
FIFTEEN
The Warehouse
Timelines
Lost for Words
Cravings
Melting - Kali Uchis
Film Lineup

3. About our Keynote Speaker — Kat Candler
Kat Candler’s award-winning feature Hellion starring Aaron Paul
and Juliette Lewis played in competition at the 2014 Sundance
Film Festival and was released theatrically through IFC Films.
Candler's work in television includes directing seven episodes of
Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey's highly acclaimed Queen
Sugar, an episode of 12 Monkeys and two episodes of 13
Reasons Why. She oversaw Season 2 of Queen Sugar as the
producing director, Season 3 as the Showrunner and Season 3
of 13 Reasons Why as the Consulting Producer. She most
recently directed two episodes of the upcoming Apple + show
Home Before Dark starring Brooklynn Prince and Jim Sturgess.
She’s currently writing and developing a new horror film for Fox
Searchlight and developing a TV series set in southeast Texas.
We’re so lucky to have her with us today!
Our Judges
We would also like to extend a huge thank you to the
professional filmmakers that volunteered their time to judge the
films and participate in round tables at today’s festival!
Thank you, Rhitu Basu, Tyra Clark, Steven DeBose, Faiza
Kracheni, Jason Harter, Ya'Ke Smith, John Valley, and Keisha
Zollar for your support of young filmmakers!
AYFF Schedule of Events
Time Theater 1 Barrel O’ Fun
10:30 AM Registration + Opening
Mixer time
10:30AM10:45 AM
11:00 AM Welcome Address 11:15AM
11:15 AM
Youth Film Exhibition
11:30 AM
AYFF Film Block 1 + Q&A
11:30AM
11:45 AM
Professional Filmmaker
Roundtable Convos
11:45AM
Super 8 Film
Scavenger Hunt +
16MM Workshop
11:45AM
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
Youth Film Exhibition12:45 PM
1:00 PM
AYFF Film Block 2 + Q&A
1:00PM
1:15 PM
Professional Filmmaker
Roundtable Convos
1:15PM
Super 8 Film
Scavenger Hunt +
16MM Workshop
1:15PM
1:30 PM
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
Keynote + Awards
with Kat Candler 2:00PM2:15 PM
2:30 PM
Closing Party!2:45 PM
3:00 PM

4. Austin High, Divided
Austin High School
Created by: Ben Fremin, St. John
Requejo, Roberto Manco-Stenz
Austin, i love you so
much
Headwaters School
Created by: Judah Rice
Suburbia
Foster High School
Created by: Nastassja Collak
Grounded
Headwaters School
Created by: Sadie Sweitzer and
Ananya Salem
Documentary Narrative Drama
Lost for Words
St. Stephen's Episcopal School
Created by: Aidan Ellis, Ford Martin
Waterlilies
Creative Action Youth Cinema
Collective
Created by: Ke'Myra Jackson, Nia
Armstrong, Sherron Gratten, Malaya
Madden, Myles Kovalik, Nubia Fuente,
Jada Mendez, Elan Retzlaff
FIFTEEN
Headwaters School
Created by: Louisa Baldwin, Tyler
Taliaferro
The Party
Creative Action Youth Cinema
Collective
Created by: Bella Rothenflue,
Myles Kovalik, Syd Cobbs
Trepidation
John Marshall High School
Created by: Zachary Goodwin,
Adam Rocha, Serenity Tapia,
Sarah Casillas
Screenplays in competition
EIGHTEEN
Headwaters School
Written by AJ Baldwin
The Road Calls
Westlake High School
Written by Myles Kovalik

5.
Experimental
Baseball Orange
Griffin School
Created by: Bella Shepard, Ireland
Griffin
Cravings
Creative Action Cinema Club
Created by: Maryanna Tollemache,
Sydney Nielsen, Bella Rothenflue,
Elan Retzlaff, Myles Kovalik,
Louisa Baldwin, Izzy Krause,
Mason Callow
Noise
Headwaters School
Created by: Max Womack, Taylor
Crownover, Borja Sanchez de Prado
Revue
Westlake High School
Created by: Myles Kovalik, Timo
Nelson, Alexis Counts, Jason Thomas,
Ella Wells, Cole Santman, Myles
Kovalik
Music Video
Timelines
Headwaters School
Created by: Donovan Taggert, Henry
Parkman, Sadie Sweitzer,
Ananya Salem, Eric Younger
Kids See Ghosts
Austin School of Film
Created by: Isaac Esmeral, Adrell
Sheldon, Brandon Walker, Julian
Garcia, Alex Merell
Falling For You
Foster High School
Created by: Janee Welcome,
Julianne Nanez, Cathia Amagslia,
Paul Guevarra, and Annie La
Melting
Foster High School
Created by: Nastassja Collak, Esther
Njagi, Nayely Barrera
Astrothunder
Headwaters School
Created by:Parker Aubin, Ethan
Jones, Max Olavson, Leopold
Redlefsen

6. Narrative Comedy Short-Shorts
The Ballad of Sam Steele
Liberal Arts and Science Academy
Created by: Atticus Keene
The Candy Conflict
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School
Created by: Augustus Cosby, Jason
Layton, Kristine Zhu, Miranda
Zheng
Touch of Murder
Headwaters School
Created by: Hendrix Crockhard, Eli
Jones, Asia Morshed, Finn Okachi
Now Hiring
Anderson High School
Created by: Jack Mathews
Eighteen
Headwaters School
Created by: Louisa Baldwin, Tyler Taliaferro,
Lexie DeStefano, David Balvantin, Amelia
Bagnaschi, Hannah Mejia, Elan Retzlaff,
Maya Jackson
The Warehouse
Austin School of Film
Created by: Myles Kovalik,
Camille Wilson, Izzy Krause,
Zoe Struik, Eliot Adair, Ian
Adair, Gibson Rountree
War Zone
John Marshall High School
Created by: Marco Zaragoza,
Adam Rocha, Mason St. John
Climate Change
Griffin School
Created by: Bella Shepard,
Olivia Cater
Texas Teens for Beto
Headwaters School
Created by: Taylor Crownover, Lexie
DeStefano, Will Cottrell, Sasha
Ashton