WELCOME TO AUSTIN
HOME OF GREAT MUSIC, GOOD FOOD, FILMMAKERS, CONTENT CREATORS, AND REBELS OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES WITH A GREAT STORY TO TELL
Austin is a city built on creativity, individuality, and the freedom to be different. Known around the world for its legendary music scene, independent spirit, and fearless artists, Austin is the perfect home for the Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival and Screenwriting Awards.
Our film community is filled with filmmakers, actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, singers, artists, storytellers, and creative rebels of all kinds. People from every background and from all over the world come to Austin to create, collaborate, experiment, and tell stories that
matter. Unlike traditional entertainment hubs that often focus only on established names and proven talent, Austin embraces the independent spirit. Here, emerging artists have the freedom to take risks, break the rules, find their voice, and grow into their greatness.
The Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival celebrates the outsiders, the visionaries, the risk-takers, and the storytellers who refuse to follow the usual path.
Austin isn't just a place where artists come to make films.
It's a place where rebels and artists join as one.
There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.
Willie Nelson
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AUSTIN
THE CAPITAL OF CULTURE AND COOL
Austin has always been a city for people who refuse to fit the mold. It’s a place where music, film, art, and individuality collide—and where being different isn't just accepted, it's celebrated.
From legendary musicians and independent filmmakers to actors, writers, directors, producers, artists, storytellers, and creative renegades, Austin attracts people who have something to say and aren't afraid to say it.
That's what makes Austin the perfect home for the Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition.
We believe great films don't always come from Hollywood studios or established names.
Sometimes they come from the outsider, the first-time filmmaker, the risk-taker, the dreamer, the misfit, or the artist who simply refuses to take “no” for an answer.
Austin gives those artists a place to experiment, collaborate, take chances, and find their voice.
The Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival is a celebration of independent filmmakers, bold storytellers, and creative rebels who aren't interested in following the crowd.
We celebrate films that push boundaries, challenge expectations, entertain, inspire, provoke, and —most importantly—rock.
Austin isn't just a place where artists come to make films.
It's where outsiders find their tribe.
Where rebels find their voice.
And where great stories come to life.
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
— Robert Rodriguez, filmmaker
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AUSTIN
WHERE ARTISTS FIND THEIR IDENTITY BY EMBRACING THEIR INDIVIDUALITY
So welcome to the Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival—a celebration of independent filmmakers, screenwriters, musicians, artists, and storytellers who aren't afraid to break the rules and create something unforgettable.
Austin has always been a launch pad for creative rebels. Inspired by the city's legendary music scene, independent spirit, and anything-goes attitude, the festival is an opportunity to showcase your talent, connect with fellow artists, and become part of a growing creative community with a reach far beyond Texas.
Austin has never been confined by borders. From the stages of Sixth Street to film sets across the country and creative communities around the world, Austin's influence reaches everywhere.
Rock & Roll Rebel is built on that same spirit—bringing together bold voices and independent creators from Austin, across the United States, and around the globe.
Whether you're a first-time filmmaker or an established artist, a screenwriter with a story to tell, or a rebel with a camera and a dream, this is your stage.
The Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition is a production of Rock and Roll Rebel Promotions, a U.S.-based independent festival company dedicated to creating distinctive film festivals and celebrating filmmakers and storytellers around the world.
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AUSTIN
WHERE GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT COFFEE, AND OCCASIONALLY GREAT COCKTAILS COME TOGETHER TO TELL GREAT STORIES
We want to champion emerging, undiscovered writers—the storytellers whose voices deserve to be heard.
We believe in dreams. We believe in opportunity. And we believe talent shouldn't depend on money, connections, or who you know. You don't have to be rich or connected to earn recognition. You just have to have something worth saying.
The Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival exists to give talented writers the exposure they need to be seen, heard, and discovered. We want winning our competition to be more than an award—we want it to be your first step up the ladder toward the career you've dreamed about.
We're looking for original voices. Writers with soul. Storytellers blessed with imagination, originality, and the courage to tell stories in their own way. We want to inspire a new generation of writers to take chances, break the rules, challenge convention, and dare to leave their mark.
If you have a story burning inside you—if you have the desire to tell compelling stories that entertain, move, inspire, or provoke—we want to hear it.
Enter your screenplay today and put your work in front of a respected team of artists who believe in independent voices and are committed to giving talented writers the recognition they deserve.
Your story deserves a stage.
Your voice deserves to be heard.
Your journey starts here.
That's why we reward our top writers with consultation packages provided by Roadmap Writers. Our grand prize winner is awarded consultation sessions with three separate top talent managers and or production executives.
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AUSTIN
WHERE CULTURE MEETS COOL.
Our community is open to everyone. We are made up of artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, and storytellers from all over the world—and we welcome creative voices from everywhere.
Austin is a dynamic, fearless, and wonderfully unconventional city, as diverse and inspiring as the art it produces. That same spirit is at the heart of the Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival.
We love film. We love music. We love art. And most of all, we love people and the stories they have to tell.
So tell us a story.
Give us something to read with our morning coffee. Give us something we can't put down. Give us a story that stays with us long after we've finished reading it. Something we can't keep to ourselves.
Take us somewhere we've never been. Make us laugh. Make us cry. Make us think. Challenge what we believe. Change the way we see the world—and maybe, just maybe, help reshape it.
Because that's what great storytelling does.
It connects us. It challenges us. It inspires us.
So bring us your voice. Bring us your vision. Bring us your story.
Welcome to Austin and Welcome to the Austin Rock & Roll Rebel Film Festival.
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