Austin Fest Annouces Wonder Project | Stand Together Fellowship
The Austin Film Festival has announced a new Fellowship opportunity for drama or comedy feature length screenplays that capture a sense of wonder, hope, and optimism. The Fellowship winner(s) will receive approximately 40-weeks of employment, where they’ll have the opportunity to develop concepts and work on scripts overseen by Wonder Project and Stand Together, who are looking for strong writers to develop high-stakes, brave, and compelling stories with a sense of heart, humor, and spectacle. Themes can be underlying, but all scripts considered should ultimately capture an optimistic lens on the human condition and a deep belief in people. Comparable films include The Pursuit of Happyness, Field of Dreams, The King’s Speech, Stand and Deliver, Erin Brockovich, Miracle, Father of the Bride, and While You Were Sleeping.
Updated: 04/08/2025
Additional Contest Info: Austin Film Festival Script Competition
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Post Your Script Here!LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLAND
When a museum curator and his female assistant translate clues in an American Revolution-era journal describing a British payroll buried on Oak Island, they must go undercover to unearth the treasure before two rival treasure hunters discover it.
The Golden Fan
Chinese, American Julie Lee buys a Ch'ing Dynasty story fan in Hong Kong and returns to her home in Los Angeles.
THE RISE OF OMEGA
When a group of teenage tech geniuses reprogram a retired police robot to fight against corruption, they uncover a sinister plot by the police chief to control the city, leading to an epic showdown between the rogue robots and the rebels.
PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a.
Not Over Yet
Six young people may not escape the heinous crime they committed 10 years ago as children.
Safari
The Danielson family from middle, suburb America, win a six week paid vacation down the Blyde River Valley Gorge in South Africa and it becomes the vacation from hell that almost takes the life of everyone in the family, one at a time.
Ripples
Four characters who are not related to each other end up in an abandoned house outside a city at the end of the coronavirus, and try to establish a new life as the world climbs out of the Covid019 horror story.
Ripples
Four unrelated characters, two women, and two men, find themselves in an abandoned home outside the city during the end of the coronavirus, and they must find a new way to survive together as the world tries to sort itself out.
EVOLUTION
The crew of EVOLUTION comes out of hyper sleep after one hundred years from launch and the first thing the crew wants is to take over the ship from the original crew, all robots.
I Think Dad Was Here
A modern, dysfunctional family waits for the reading of the will after the head of the family passes, or did he?
