As part of Austin Film Festival’s Uplifting Storytellers Initiative, AFF hosts programming within Six Square, Austin’s Black cultural district, to connect, cultivate, and celebrate BIPOC artists. It includes a live reading of the first three pages of selected scripts and an industry roundtable with panelists Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman), Amy Aniobi (Insecure), Aanch Khaneja (SuperSpecial), Julio Quintana (The Long Game), and Faith McQuinn (Observer Pictures).