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Something to Purr About: Special Cat! Discount for the Austin Film Festival & Conference 

Jennifer, August 6, 2010 1 2 min read 51  

Thanks to a collaboration between Melody Lopez of the Austin Cats! and the kind organizers of the Austin Film Festival and Conference, all Save the Cat! subscribers can enjoy a special discount on tickets to this year’s gala event.

We owe this incredible opportunity to an offer by the Austin Cats! to sponsor the attendance of author/screenwriter Will Akers at the conference. Will penned the bestselling Your Screenplay Sucks!, 100 Ways to Make It Great – a title that Blake frequently and happily recommended to his pupils (Melody included).

The inside of Will’s book bears Blake’s words of praise: “William M. Akers is a renaissance man of film who is at once a big studio screenwriter, independent writer/director, and caring, insightful teacher.'”

Read the full interview between Melody Lopez and Will Akers on the Austin Film Festival blog, or see below for full details on the discount being offered to Cats! everywhere. And if you’re attending the Festival, be sure to see the screenwriters panel with Cat! Alvaro Rodriguez!

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To receive the discount, the order will need to be made by phone (800.310.3378 or 512.478.4795); registrants should ask to speak with either Matt Dy (pronounced ‘Dee’), our Screenplay Competition Director, or Maya Perez. You can also contact the organizers for more information at [email protected] or [email protected].

Austin Cats!/ Save the Cat! discounts are not valid with any other discount or promotional price offered by the Austin Film Festival.

Film Pass- $42 (no discount; goes up to $50 after September 30th)

Lonestar Badge – $95 (no discount; goes up to $110 after September 30th)

Weekend Badge – $200 through September 30th (regularly $225)

Conference Badge – $300 through September 30th (regularly $350); $325 after September 30th (regularly $375)

Producers Badge – $535 through September 30th (regularly $585); $600 after September 30th(regularly $650)

If there are 10 or more registrants from the Austin Cats! Group, the group organizer will receive a complimentary Producers Badge.

All payments are non-refundable for any reason, including but not limited to illness, acts of God, or travel-related problems. Badges are non-transferable and are the property of the Austin Film Festival, Inc. Unused registrations cannot be credited for future year’s attendance.