Audrey Wells confirmed as a panelist for the 2007 AFF

Writer/Director Audrey Wells had been confirmed as a panelist for the 2007 Austin Film Festival and Conference. Audrey is the writer and director of Under the Tuscan Sun and Guinevere. Some of her writing credits include The Kid, George of the Jungle, The Truth about Cats & Dogs, and Shall We Dance.

The 2007 AFF takes place October 11-18.

more from Marc Potts

Recently stumbled across this earlier short by AFF filmmaker Marc Potts on YouTube. We screened Marc's very funny short For the Love of Family at the 2006 AFF where it received a special mention from the Narrative Student Short Jury. Marc is a student at the University of Oklahoma and part of Singletree Productions along with For the Love of Family co-writer Cole Selix.

Canada's Top Ten

The Toronto International Film Festival Group (clearly the people that bring you the Toronto International Film Festival) have released their annual top ten list of Canadian films. Hopefully, most of these films will eventually make it to the U.S. Already slated for a U.S. premiere at Sundance next month is actress Sarah Polley's directorial debut, Away From Her. One of our programmers, Ryan Williams, caught a screening of the film at Toronto this year and could not say enough good things about it. Also making the list is the big screen version of the popular television show Trailer Park Boys. It is produced by comedy giant Ivan Reitman, and if the trailer is any indication, it should be pretty interesting.

The Good Shepherd

AFF co-hosted the Austin premiere of Robert De Niro's new film, The Good Shepherd, last night at the Regal Metropolitan. The turn out was great and while we co-hosted the screening, AFF members still got priority seating for the film. To find out how you can be a member of AFF, click here.

The Good Shepherd stars Matt Damon (who is in almost every frame of the film) and tells the story of early days of the CIA. The script was penned by Eric Roth (Munich, The Insider) who was recently confirmed as a panelist for the 2007 Austin Film Festival.

The Good Shepard opens nation-wide this Friday, December 22nd.