Austin Film Festival to Honor Ed Wood Writers

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, recipients of this year's Bill Wittliff Award at the Austin Film Festival

The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike has focused attention on the importance of writers in cinema, a reality that the writer-centric Austin Film Festival has always known. Now the festival has announced it will celebrate two quiet giants of the art: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. If their names are not familiar, that's because ... well, that's the film industry for you. If you follow Hollywood's inner workings, then you may have heard of Alexander as a four-time member of the Writers Guild Board of Directors, while Karaszewski is Vice President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

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