Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...
AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.
Austin Conventio...
AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.
Austin Conventio...
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival by hosting a nine-day lounge at the Driskill Hotel for all to enjoy. The lounge is designed to celebrate Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.
Austin Conventi...
Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.
Austin Conventi...
Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Stop by to unwind, discover the latest from Dell and tell them how they can help you do more.
Austin Convention Center: 1st ...
The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...
How Socially Forward is your Business? Want to find out? Stop by the IBM Future of Social Lounge during SXSW Interactive for a social assessment, see where Social Business is headed, listen in on live Conversations with ...
Visit the Isis Lounge (West Hall) or our Tradeshow Booth (#444) to see the Isis Mobile Wallet in action. Don’t miss our live presentation by cyberillusionist Marco Tempest in the Lounge on March 9th.
Austin Convention...
Today’s consumers expect applications that are optimized for all their devices – including phones and tablets. Visit the Microsoft Lounge to see how to create impressive multiscreen experiences.
Austin Convention Ce...
This year, the PepsiCo Pavilion is going to highlight the intersection of analog and digital. Tune in, take notes and help them make sense of it all!
Austin Convention Center: 1st floor, Palazzo, SW Corner......
This year, the PepsiCo Pavilion is going to highlight the intersection of analog and digital. Tune in, take notes and help them make sense of it all!
Austin Convention Center: 1st floor, Palazzo, SW Corner......
5th Year Anniversary Celebration! For the last four years, the Blogger Lounge at SXSW has served as a central hub for celebrating friendship, innovation and collaboration. We are proud to announce that TechSet is once ag...
Samsung will unveil their latest news, cutting-edge products and their stunning, engaging media wall which will highlight everything you need to know about what’s hot at Samsung and SXSW.
Austin Convention Center: 1st...
SXcycles is a complimentary bike share program for Platinum, Gold, Interactive and Film registrants. Tern is providing their "Link D8" bicycles for daily use. Registrants can pick up a bike with helmet, locks a...
SXcycles is a complimentary bike share program for Platinum, Gold, Interactive and Film registrants. Tern is providing their "Link D8" bicycles for daily use. Registrants can pick up a bike with helmet, locks a...
Located conveniently in the Austin Convention Center, the Filmmakers Lounge is the perfect place for SXSW's filmmakers to relax, enjoy complimentary hospitality and massages in a comfortable atmosphere.......
Recharge your batteries and your brain in our lounge, and find out about our lounge's Flash Mob Happy Hours by following us on Twitter (@AmericansElect) and via #sxaelounge.
We'll have charging stations, classic board ...
The Beacon: Lounge With a Conscience returns as THE spot for cause-focused people to hang out with the best & brightest non-profit Geekerati. The WiFi will be speedy, the noms & drinks plentiful, the couches comf...
Once again, the fun-filled big top circus that is the Mashery Lounge will be back at SXSW 2012 in March. With great furnishings and flowing refreshments, the Circus Mashimus is a great place to talk API shop with Mashery...
Need to recharge? iPhone or Tablet going dead? Feet hurting? Come relax in the iTriage Power-Up Lounge. Plug in your electronics at the charge stations and grab a healthy snack to refuel! And while you're recharging on t...
*up to 100 available*
Follow @girlsHBO to find out how to eat and drink for FREE at SXSW #mistakesGIRLSmake
Here's how:
1) @girlsHBO will tweet out key images at the start of every deal
2) Show the correct key image to...
Everyone in a startup should be able to give the "elevator pitch", even the programmers! Having the right pitch can help you land a big customer, attract investors, and just explain what you do to your mom. Lea...
Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...
Using a variety of original source material, Chris Grayson will give an overview of the global network, as envisioned by thinkers at ARPA before the creation of the ARPAnet. Examples include J.C.R. Licklider's "Man-...
Dan and Kay will bust a commonly held myth: that there is some Natural way of interacting with technology, and that simply by changing modality (touch, body tracking, etc) we will eliminate the need for a UI.
They will...
China is considered home to the world's factories, manufacturing everything from zippers to photovoltaic cells and with its population of over 1.3 billion and booming economy, consumerism is on the rise, too. But lets pe...
Sass & Compass are quickly becoming a standard for authoring and maintaining the styles (CSS) of many of popular websites. A derivative of these languages may someday replace CSS as the default language for styling h...
Intermediate
Presenters
Beau Smith, Drew Yeaton, Jacob Thornton, Wynn Netherland
With buzzwords like “NFC” and “mobile wallet” thrown about in the press ad nauseam, consumers and the mobile and financial industries are looking for who will emerge the winner in the effort to control mobile mon...
Successful business depends on successful relationships. While a social media strategy may contribute to success, it is never the primary reason for success or failure. Wherever you fall on the spectrum of many-to-many a...
The consumerization of the enterprise is an emerging concept transforming the look and feel and intent of the software we use to run our businesses. It’s lowering the barriers of adoption, flipping the top-down model o...
Founders can plan all they want, but sometimes the most significant drivers of growth are unexpected. The trick to sniffing out the (unexpected) secret sauce is observing trends—both among users and throughout the grea...
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
9:30AM -10:30AM
As social media marketing moves from experimental to institutional, brands no longer question social media marketing as a line item. That said, the strategies and deployment of social campaigns continues to introduce big...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Harris, John Manoogian III, Kristin Maverick, Sarahjane Sacchetti
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law, has recently relocated to Austin (he how serves as Director of Innovation and teaches the "One Semester Startup" course at the...
Limited choices exist when kids seek to author, not just play, their own video games. If video games are on track to topple film as the last big media mammoth, how can we build a video game workforce that we need? Instea...
Beginner
Presenters
Alexander Repenning, David Gerding, Tamara Hudgins, Virginia Mcarthur, Ward Tisdale
Initiated by the US Air Force Medical Services, the Federal Health Futures Group has brought together the Surgeons General of the Army, Navy and Air Force, the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States, the Veteran’s...
Advanced
Presenters
Ahmed Calvo, Brian McCarty, Lisa Lott, Mei Lin Fung
Usability has come a long way since the dark days before "Designing with Web Standards". Now nearly all companies see the value of UX in their digital designs. But despite heightened focus on the user and a gro...
Emotion drives action. This session will address how bloggers can lend their voices to raise awareness about a cause, help with fundraising or spread the word about a campaign. We will explore how non-profits can benefit...
Language is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. When we imagine sharing a world with smart machines, we don't think about logic, or problem solving, or winning at chess. We hear HAL-9000 declining to open the pod...
So people “like” your brand on Facebook. Big deal.
Many brands have become slaves to the “like” button. They give away valuable stuff in return for a passive thumbs-ups, never realizing that this behavior could ...
A recent survey of 17,000 people found that 60% of Americans believe that neighbors are worse today than they were 15 years ago. What role does social media play in this perception of decline? We’ll have perspectives f...
Beginner
Presenters
Gretchen Rubin, Kelly Weiss, Matthew Edwards, Shelly Brisbin
The recent campaign film on Uganda by Invisible Children - 'Kony 2012' calling for the arrest of war criminal Joseph Kony has had a dramatic reach unseen for any previous human rights video online. Within one week it has...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cheryl Contee, Christie George, Gilad Lotan, Sam Gregory, TMS Ruge
Spotify, Pandora, MOG, Aweditorium and many more aim to provide the ultimate experience in music discovery -- they claim to have the "winning strategy" with their unique combination of an extensive catalog, soc...
Advanced
Presenters
Anil Dewan, Heather Browne, Philipp Eibach, Richard Slatter
2011 was a big year for news—from the Arab Spring uprisings to the debt-ceiling meltdown, to quakes, floods hurricanes and the Republican presidential smackdown. Fortunately, the year also saw the emergence of a new ap...
Mobile devices are changing how we communicate today just as fundamentally as the web has for the past decade, and businesses of all types are rushing to embrace their potential. Thanks to the success of the iOS and And...
Intermediate
Presenters
Buzz Andersen, Jacob Bijani, Majd Taby, Matthew Delaney, Tom Dale
The Oscars, Superbowl, Presidential Debates -- all live events where your audience is probably focused on a screen that you have no control of: their TV. But they're increasingly picking up a laptop or a tablet device, ...
The Oscars, Superbowl, Presidential Debates -- all live events where your audience is probably focused on a screen that you have no control of: their TV. But they're increasingly picking up a laptop or a tablet device, ...
News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
...
This is a “come as you are” session meant to accommodate mixed levels of experience with minimal need for special equipment or previous experience (read: no mats or yoga clothing required.) Special emphasis is placed...
Today 40 million people are over 65 - the largest and fastest growing demographic in America. With Baby Boomers retiring, over 10,000 people a day turn 65, a trend that will continue over the next decade. Americans ag...
In the past, an editor, a professional trained to vet content for a publication decided what you consumed. Today, content is vetted by our friends, celebrities, and strangers we've 'liked', followed, or circled. Influe...
Advanced
Presenters
Alicia Stewart, Michael Pranikoff, Shelli Whitehurst, Tom Miale, Tony Uphoff
This fun and thought provoking session will look at fundamental issues about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). When is human-level AI likely to emerge? When it does emerge will it be more likely to be friendly, h...
When creating games for children game designers often work in a vacuum. As adults, we are far removed from the developing cognitive and motor skills that are a hallmark of a growing child. Meanwhile, game dev resources t...
Keywords, colors, graphics, ads, special features, cross promotions—when it comes to apps, there are so many details that, when executed correctly, can make the difference between 1000 downloads and 100,000. As the f...
Social media "feed" providers including Rdio, Instagram, Soundcloud, and many more are paired with interactive installation artists to bring their unique feed to life with live SXSW data. #FEED will be made mor...
Hungry for Networking? Then join us and 250+ digital practitioners, press and investors for a traditional British fry-up! RSVP here: http://chw.ag/Z6m......
If the growth of the internet taught us anything, it is that not everyone welcomes exciting, disruptive technologies. Impacted industries like film and music demanded that Congress protect them from the internet. In the ...
Ever thought about launching your startup with some influencer star power? What exactly do "advisors" do (and not do)? It takes more than a pretty face to pin point a truly smart advisor partnership. The r...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chase Jarvis, Gary Vaynerchuk, JR Johnson, Tim Ferriss, Tony Conrad
As the rise of iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store brings more web developers into the world of native applications can our existing processes and best practices survive the transition? How can we release early and often...
Advanced
Presenters
Amanda Wixted, Anne Halsall, Jonah Williams, Kyle Neath
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and inspire all filmmakers to imagine more. That was the story behind Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a Hollywood film. After receiving 96...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
Even though the U.S. workforce is comprised of 50% women, our society still finds it unusual for women to hold roles in certain fields – one of them being technology. In fact, only 25% of people that work in tech are w...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexa von Tobel, Courtney Myers, Donna Wells, Julia Hartz, Meredith Flynn-Ripley
Our world is becoming increasingly intelligent, interconnected, and instrumented, resulting in massive amounts of data being collected. This data is a treasure trove of information that can be mined to improve service, i...
We’re going to debate and show prototypes of how printed electronics could save digital music in the context of connecting communities to record labels and artists.
Printed Electronics is an emerging technology with ...
Advanced
Presenters
Jon Rogers, Kate Stone, Kenny Anderson, Pete Thomas, Tommy Perman
The Chair is the story of a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in a small town and one boy's attempt to understand his mother's death, his grandmother's obsession with their discarded recliner, and the roots of this s...
Director(s): Grainger David
Narrative Short
12 min
"Charles Bradley: Soul of America" captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard lif...
Director(s): Poull Brien
Documentary Feature
74 min
Double agent. First Responder. Cheerleader.They’re all fair descriptors of the rising role of Community Manager. Whether you are one yourself or just morbidly curious about “the man behind the curtain,” you know th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Annalise Kaylor, Chris Gokiert, Heidi Skinner, Nina Kester, Rebecca Russell
Human history is punctuated by revolutions in communication. Innovations ranging from the printing press to the mobile phone continually improved our communication across space and time, culminating in the Internet Age. ...
Join influential award-winning composer and vocalist for the progressive new wave/rock band DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh in a conversation on his storied career as musician and artist. Mark's credits as composer are varied th...
The Internet today consists of a morass of partial and redundant content: the ~17m businesses and POI in the US, for example, are duplicated over 1.2 billion website across over 5 million domains. This tangle of duplica...
The animated documentary feature “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the life’s story of Crulic, the 33 year old Romanian who died in a Polish prison during a hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Iva...
Director(s): Anca Damian
Documentary Feature
73 min
There is a lot of information out on the open web, but it can be difficult to sort through, and you don't always know how reliable it is. In this session, a variety of electronic database retrieval experts will guide you...
Beginner
Presenters
Jen Bonnet, Lisa Hamilton, Philip Hallman, Tim Hamblin, Jo Angela Oehrli
How can brands in low-interest, low-involvement categories truly engage women in the digital space? Which of women’s digital activities are purchase decision drivers vs. distractors? What do women really want from bran...
Today's technology is changing the world at a quicker pace than any prior period of time. In order to keep up with this transformation, our education system will need to react at a much faster rate to develop new skills...
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Christian, Gregory Fenves, Linda Smarzik, Nathan Green, Terry Hazell
Hosts Andrew WK and film star Angela Sarafyan (Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 ) give insight into their first hand experiences in the world of digital entertainment. Come be among the first to sneak preview Fox Dig...
As digital music consumption continues to increase, artists and consumers are finding new ways to engage within the digital landscape. Spotify, the leading digital music service, is helping to driving this digital conver...
Join explorer and environmentalist Philippe Cousteau and panelists to explore how gaming innovations can improve the world. In 2010, The University of Virginia launched the UVA Bay Game, a large-scale game simulation of ...
Beginner
Presenters
Ashok Kamal, Carrie Freeman, Jeffrey Plank, Philippe Cousteau
Today’s customer is complex, but tomorrow’s will be even more difficult to understand, communicate with, support and please. Tomorrow’s customer will be used to an always-available ecosystem of online, mobile, and ...
Call it chance, luck, or juju, serendipity is the act of unexpectedly finding something of value. It is the muse of innovation and a silent driver of business; consider how Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of the...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Johnston, Duleesha Kulasooriya, Jennifer Okimoto, Jim Storer, Rawn Shah
“Get Lucky” is a manual for serendipity: what it is, how it works, and how to put it to work for you. As the pace of change accelerates around our businesses and the sheer volume of information explodes, we're under ...
As more products and services move to the proverbial cloud, from shared collaboration, commercial product offerings, and user-uploaded content, new business models are created while extant business models come under atta...
Want to make some money? Federal agencies have recently been given the authority by Congress to sponsor competitions for individuals, groups, and companies to develop new ideas and technology innovations for a chance to ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Gerty, James Pol, Jenn Gustetic, Mari Kuraishi, Michael O'Neill
It all happened so quickly: you arrived at the hack-a-thon, got excited, met interesting people, came up with a great idea, built a prototype (in less than 12 hours) and presented to an adoring crowd.Then everyone went h...
Humans learn by doing. We master how to ride a bike not by watching a PowerPoint presentation but by trying it out and falling down. Yet, in school, most of our time is spent listening and memorizing facts. But the world...
Our wallets are one of the last remaining bastions of a pre-digital lifestyle, relics of an era of payment that has since come and gone.
Coupons are now Groupons, rewards cards are digitally stored on our smartphones an...
Beginner
Presenters
Colleen Taylor, David Barrett, Jae Kim, Scott Brady
From his first day in office, President Obama put a priority on an open and engaging government. From Hangouts to hashtags, the White House is utilizing social media to interact with Americans everyday on the issues tha...
In the beginning, there was Slate's beloved news roundup, “Today’s Papers.” Then, in 2001, The Week magazine landed in the States with great success and pioneered the art of news and opinion curation in print. But ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Falk, Felix Salmon, Julia Turner, Simon Dumenco
Will ________ save journalism? It’s a typical, and tired, question with everything from paywalls, iPads, programmers or hyperlocal, microlocal, over-aggregation filling in the blank. But the subject of design is often ...
Nicola is in hospital after giving birth. When her school friend Tess comes to visit, Nicola is forced by her mother to introduce 'Joy', her new born daughter, who lived for seven hours.......
The Insane Clown Posse, a Detroit gangsta rap group who literally dress like clowns, have leveraged a rabidly devoted fan base to become the best selling indie band of all time (for REAL). They've accomplished this witho...
After 14 year-old Tara's boyfriend comes out to her and ends their relationship, she can't help feeling confused and angry with him. But when Tara's older sister and her friend become convinced that Brian was lying about...
Director(s): Adam Garnet Jones
Narrative Short
7 min
Haakon Wium Lie worked with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN when CSS was conceived in 1994. His last name does not build confidence, but CSS has – after a rough start during the first browser wars – become a cornerstone of t...
Social media includes lots of free-form textual data in "natural languages", the languages people speak. Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps you analyze that data. Some NLP problems are very hard, but a num...
Get together with other link builders for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.......
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
Every film starts as an idea. Getting that idea onto the page can present a range of unanticipated challenges for the uninitiated. Meet with accomplished writers who can offer insight into how to realize a project of you...
Beginner
Presenters
Cindy McCreery, John Bryant, Jordan Roberts, Noah Hawley, Owen Egerton, Tim McCanlies
Another Bullet Dodged
Director: Landon Zakheim
In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed.
The Chair
Director: Grainger David
The story of one boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold...
Writing is never going to die. Crafting thoughts into clear and useful communication is always going to be important online. But aspiring writers these days would be smart to enhance their skill set to include online vid...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Albrecht, Emily Calderone, Kyle Ryan, Meredith Arthur
Warren has just been laid off from his job at a slaughterhouse in small town Alberta, Canada. With his father dying in the hospital, his romantic relationship on the rocks, and his struggle with substance abuse getting t...
You have songs in your film that you need to license, but you have no idea how to get a quote, who to ask, and where to go. Sound familiar? Nowadays, independent filmmakers have to wear many hats, and understanding the...
Philanthropy is changing. Social change makers face continuing economic uncertainty. Government programs are downsizing. And traditional grantmakers can be hard to reach, requiring long proposal and reporting cycles. ...
Beginner
Presenters
Amy Kaherl, Daniel Kaufman, Joaquin Uy, Nathaniel James, Rishi Jaitly
The fastest-growing social media service in recent months is Pinterest, which describes itself as an online pinboard to organize and share things you love. Learn more about what the site is doing now, why it has grown po...
Get together with other Ruby experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if you ar...
The business world is increasingly enamored with design. Business leaders look to designers for guidance on everything from product innovation to corporate strategy. While designers and business people may bring differen...
For millennia, we wore footwear to protect our feet and get us from point A to B. Somewhere along the line they became status symbols. Then sports apparel. Now they’re quickly becoming the next device on our bodies tha...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeff Lyman, Matt Halfhill, Steve Caputo, Trevor Eld
Connecting the power of social media with commerce should be a no brainer -- the next chapter in eCommerce. Indeed, Facebook has shown that people are 4x more likely to buy something when it's recommended by a friend and...
Intermediate
Presenters
Craig Donato, Greg Sterling, Peter Farrell, Tara Hunt
As our networks expand, our profiles get more public, and our work requires a human face, where do we draw the line between personal and professional identities online? How do we maintain those boundaries for our communi...
With the developments in social shopping such as real time social shopping sites, Facebook shopping, and location-based check-ins, recommendations, and deals, the fashion industry is catering to the customer like never b...
Software patents have a mixed reputation. They make some millions, are labeled a scourge by others, and are generally just overlooked or misunderstood by the general public. In the end, it's an open question whether they...
It’s 1971 and communes and new religions are on the rise. The Source Family are an "Aquarian tribe," a secretive but outlandish group of 140 beautiful young people who stroll Los Angeles in colorful robes, de...
Director(s): Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos
Documentary Feature
105 min
Launching a business in mainland China can be daunting. American Michael LoJudice, Co-founder and General Manager of Chinese music community site Caoker, provides insights into the ins-and-outs of structuring, launching,...
Come join creators, hackers, makers, artists, and diy'ers for the first annual Create on March 13th in Palm Park from 11am-6pm. This community event, in conjunction with Dorkbot Austin and the Austin Hackerspace, will be...
Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges...
New York electronic music duo, The Golden Filter, have collaborated with Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli to create a darkly beautiful short film entitled SYNDROMES. The film focuses on a young girl's bizarre and une...
Director(s): The Golden Filter, Kristoffer Borgli
Narrative Short
11 min
How do you help your geographically dispersed and diverse melting pot organization become a more effective and cohesive team with a shared sense of purpose? How do you simulate ‘around the water cooler” type conversa...
If you could only get inside your customer's head, it would be so much easier to get them to buy on your website. Fortunately, there are several powerful psychological tricks that you can use to convince your prospects t...
WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists (SXSW 2012) takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film traces the...
WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists (SXSW 2012) takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film traces the...
The traditional cycles of fashion trends, consumer buying patterns and clothing manufacturing no longer exist in the fashion industry – fashion is ‘now’ in all its capacity and its current pace brings with it a var...
Intermediate
Presenters
Anthony Santagati, Chris Morton, Imran Amed, Michelle Sadlier, Nikolas Badminton
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
11:00AM -12:00PM
Ad agencies pride themselves on big ideas and creativity. But for too long, they’ve relegated technology and code as production tasks, not as strategic points of view.
In the 21st century, ad agencies need to embrace ...
Always-on, high-speed connectivity is the ticket to doing awesome stuff in technology today.
But in a continent like Africa, ‘The Cloud’ is something ‘The Rain’ falls out of.
And still, innovation in the techn...
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of fam...
Director(s): Annie Eastman
Documentary Feature
75 min
Gretchen Rubin signs her book ‘The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Caught between loyalty to his brother and his own will, Simon is forced t...
"Dreams of a Life" is an imaginative and multilayered quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years a...
Director(s): Carol Morley
Documentary Feature
91 min
With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of artist: the indie game designer. These innovators design and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they may find connection and success.
After years ...
Director(s): Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
Documentary Feature
96 min
What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametri...
Director(s): Victor Kossakovsky
Documentary Feature
104 min
Understanding the fundamentals of workflow and the principles of human performance enable entrepreneurs with the tools and the processes to get more of their work done, on time, with fewer resources and with less stress....
Want to make 2012 the year that you learn how to 3-D print or wield a blow torch? Then roll-up your sleeves and come by the GE Garage to meet our experts, who will teach you how to make manufacturing magic. All fellow SX...
The dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown casts a shadow over Tommy Cowley’s life. Trapped there by his agoraphobia since his wife was fatally attacked by twisted feral children, he now finds himself terrorized by the same...
Entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and technology enthusiasts are invited to come meet at the Meet Up Pavilion in the SXSW Trade Show Tuesday, March 13 from 1200pm-1:00pm. Come discuss clean technology in a casual sett...
Entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and technology enthusiasts are invited to come meet at the Meet Up Pavilion in the SXSW Trade Show Tuesday, March 13 from 1200pm-1:00pm. Come discuss clean technology in a casual sett...
Entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and technology enthusiasts are invited to come meet at the Meet Up Pavilion in the SXSW Trade Show Tuesday, March 13 from 1200pm-1:00pm. Come discuss clean technology in a casual sett...
*up to 100 available*
Follow @girlsHBO to find out how to eat and drink for FREE at SXSW #mistakesGIRLSmake
Here's how:
1) @girlsHBO will tweet out key images at the start of every deal
2) Show the correct key image to...
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, "Monsieur Lazhar" tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-...
Director(s): Philippe Falardeau
Narrative Feature
94 min
This year, Built goes to 11 with this exceptional lineup:
1. Shipping container conversions—Mark Meyer, designSTUDIOmodern
The ubiquity of the ISO shipping container has come home to roost, literally. We transform rep...
This year, Built goes to 11 with this exceptional lineup:
1. Shipping container conversions—Mark Meyer, designSTUDIOmodern
The ubiquity of the ISO shipping container has come home to roost, literally. We transform rep...
This year, Built goes to 11 with this exceptional lineup:
1. Shipping container conversions—Mark Meyer, designSTUDIOmodern
The ubiquity of the ISO shipping container has come home to roost, literally. We transform rep...
Social media has earned a prominent seat at the table with the large media companies of the world and has birthed an entirely new way to cover the world of politics. As we approach the electoral year, political chatter w...
Beginner
Presenters
Ben Parr, Khris Loux, Mark Blumenthal, Vishal Sankhla
VC's are clamoring to get in the game, celebrities are throwing money at it, and the media is eating it up. It’s been coined 'collaborative consumption,' and ‘the Airbnb of’ well... anything, really. Peer-to-peer...
Beginner
Presenters
James Reinhart, Joe Gebbia, Lauren Anderson, Leah Busque, Sarah Kessler
This is a Continuing Legal Education panel: Automobiles are increasingly connected to computer networks and are used to collect, use and share vehicle-related information. They also provide a delivery mechanism for dri...
Advanced
Presenters
Beth Hill, Gerard M Stegmaier, Michelle Avary, Nick Pudar
The Internet has made everyone a publisher. Even brands are now doing what used to solely be the domain of media companies: creating compelling content. Great content is being used to gain fans, inform customers and incr...
The web is founded on open, decentralised principles. This means anyone can build a site that can link to any other, without any need for proprietary technology. No one owns e-mail, usenet or http, but social services li...
Can making the musical experience more social and shareable help the music industry survive? The degree to which any new digital music company will be successful will be based on their ability to engage people. Music is ...
Here we'll discuss the importance of live, working prototypes that use real data and how to create them using nothing more than a Web browser and a text editor. Then we'll break out our laptops and hack some new function...
For millennia, eastern philosophers have talked about the “interconnectedness of all things;" the idea of an invisible web that links together beings and objects, organic and inorganic. For the first time in human...
It seems like everyone is trying to build an online community these days. Unfortunately, designing a community space is much trickier to nail than your typical web app. The smallest changes can have butterfly-like effect...
“Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web & Mobile” is the latest, most definitive book on web and mobile content development. Using the latest research, best practices and case studies, it is pos...
Cliff Martinez began as a drummer for unconventional bands such as The Weirdos, The Dickies, Captain Beefheart & The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The desire to not wear a sock on his genitals at age 40 and an interest in n...
Cliff Martinez began as a drummer for unconventional bands such as The Weirdos, The Dickies, Captain Beefheart & The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The desire to not wear a sock on his genitals at age 40 and an interest in n...
We’ve all been shown nirvana-like visions of a collaborative future where we join hands in beautiful creative harmony: the art director will join with designer, with the content strategist, with the planner, with the t...
Jimmy Schulz attended SXSW in 2011 and announced during the panel session „Make Citizens Social: Digital Participation in Public Services“ that next year he would report the results of the implementation of “Adhocr...
For magazine editors today, the delivery of digital content is an undeniable reality, and a terrific opportunity. Digital platforms–the web, tablets, and mobile–allow editors to take their magazines to places they’...
Facebook Credits, the social network's virtual currency, at first was only used as a payment method for virtual goods in social games. However, with Facebook now that all Facebook Games exclusively use Credits for paymen...
Managing customer service on a Facebook Page is a messy proposition, particularly for large businesses and brands. Increasingly impatient customers and fans are flocking to the Facebook Wall to fire off specific questio...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bryan Person, Eric Ludwig, Mark Williams, Molly DeMaagd
Flash. For some, it’s Da Bomb—the Holy Grail of interactive web design. For others, it’s the F Bomb—the virtual thorn in their web experience. Flash has been, for years, a tool programmers have gone to in order t...
Advanced
Presenters
Aubrey Gross, David Greene, Kristine Schachinger, Phillip Gross
How we work is changing. But where we work isn’t.
Over the last ten years a new way of working has emerged, along with some people who live it every day. They’re available 24/7. They network endlessly, and then plug...
Intermediate
Presenters
Althea Erickson, Benjamin Dyett, Josh Rubin, Richard Schatzberger, Scott Belsky
I've spent the last year working on a game and project to disrupt international development. I built an incredible team of advisors, developers, designers, nonprofits, and supporters around simply an idea, and around a ...
Created by & starring Lena Dunham (“Tiny Furniture”), the new HBO series GIRLS takes a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s. Join Dunham, EP Judd Apatow...
Beginner
Presenters
Ilene Landress, Jenni Konner, Jody Lee Lipes, Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Paul Zucker, Shawn Paper, Alex Karpovsky
Get together with other graphic design experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.......
Despite the mainstream portrayal of the web as a den of pedophiles and hackers, the Internet is capable of doing a whole lot of good. Panelists Alexis Ohanian (co-founder of Reddit; founder of Breadpig), Dan McComas and ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexis Ohanian, Christina Xu, Dan Mccomas, Zach Walker
PowerPoint is boring. Today, professors are letting students pass virtual notes in class on Twitter. They're trying "clickers" that turn classrooms into game shows. They're videotaping classes to let students w...
The public and private sector have employed various strategies to bring more established tech companies as well as more startups to the Central Texas area. Find out what factors have been most successful (and least succe...
Intermediate
Presenters
Gary Cadenhead, Jani Byrne, Jim Butler, Paul Pellman, Susan Davenport
It’s time for a revolution. Time to change the way we think about business and how we can have a positive affect on the world around us. Truth is you CAN turn a profit and build a successful business that addresses som...
Electronic health records have the potential for enormous good, but in order for them to live up to their full potential, information about patients -- their symptoms, diagnoses, allergic reactions, medical backgrounds, ...
There are more than 120 million Chinese gamers, and nearly every one of them plays online games. Online games are a primary source of entertainment in China, and Chinese online game operators are the companies that enabl...
Financing an independent feature is a highly complex process. Film schools and books on film producing rarely explain the delicate balance of elements which are required to launch a film. How do you find the money? Where...
“My real competition is 30 billion status updates,” PepsiCo Head of
Digital Shiv Singh has said of the challenge of being a brand in the
social space. Attention is the new bottleneck, and brands often adopt
counter-p...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers in our Documentary Filmmaker Mentor category.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holder...
Beginner
Presenters
Amanda Micheli, Bob Ray, Chris Metzler, Jacob Rosenberg, Jordana Glick-Franzheim, Keith Maitland, Ryan White
There are tools and tutorials out there to teach developers all sorts of things about mobile apps, taking them from "Hello World!" to sophisticated products ready for the big time. But if you want help building...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Conley, Kevin Mahaffey, Nick Doty, Tara Whalen, Tim Vetter
In the intersecting worlds of music and social, how are startups and artists working together to enhance the music experience? By embracing mobile and social networks, bands are able to connect with their fans and intera...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brenna Ehrlich, Glenn Miller, Matthew Thomas, Steve Cheney
The merging of the physical and digital into a blended reality is a profound change to our world that demands examination. In this session we will explore this concept through the lenses of technology, anthropology and c...
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
12:30PM - 1:30PM
With the growth of shows like The Moth, and This American Life, true storytelling is more popular than ever. Whether you’re at the bar or in the boardroom – everyone has a story to tell.
In this talk Kevin Allison ...
On Thursday, June 2, 2011, LulzSecurity.com registered for CloudFlare — a service designed to make any website faster and more secure. One hour after they registered, they published 3.5 million usernames and passwords ...
This solo presentation from the founder / CEO of the Austin-based company Stratfor (as well as the author of the best-selling books "The Next 100 Years," "The Next Decade" and "The Future of War&...
Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University...
In 2015, analysts estimate worldwide sales of 3 million hybrid and electric cars and light trucks – and almost 100 million electric scooters and bikes. EVs represent more than just a different way to turn the wheels o...
Turntable.fm came from out of nowhere to become the most addictive new music service. The success of the service shows how we are entering a stage where owning music as an individual is less important than playing it tog...
Enterprise and consumer experiences are blurring more everyday as applications move to the cloud and companies build a vertical stack of offerings. Today's Facebook and Twitter generation expect their applications to be ...
The scientific method revolutionized the world of truth-seeking. Yet journalism - which, like science, seeks truth - is far less rigorous. We’ll walk through why this gap has led to record levels of distrust in journal...
These days everyone is talking about the mobile wallet and how consumers will be able to pay with phones. Some technology companies are pushing mobile wallets, claiming they have the next breakthrough for future payments...
Digital democracy has been and gone; at the end of the day, we only want fashion that looks good. Which is, for the most part, highly produced, edited and featuring a well-known model. Fashion social media has had quite ...
Films are finding success abroad today - how do you make your film viable abroad, find the right distributor and capitalize on other markets? With the varied distribution and sales landscapes today, where should you star...
Over the past year Worldchanging has undergone a transformation. Now partnered with Architecture for Humanity, Worldchanging is moving beyond the abstract advocacy that Bruce Sterling criticized during last year's closin...
Scott Rice will describe his experience making two successful web series, SCRIPT COPS (Sony Pictures, Final Draft) and NEVER DO THIS (Comedy Central). Learn what factors to take into account when conceptualizing your web...
Mobile devices—particularly tablets—present exciting opportunities to create new forms of the novel. How can we take this great storytelling form from the familiar container of the book to the open frontier of the to...
Mobile devices—particularly tablets—present exciting opportunities to create new forms of the novel. How can we take this great storytelling form from the familiar container of the book to the open frontier of the to...
Mobile devices—particularly tablets—present exciting opportunities to create new forms of the novel. How can we take this great storytelling form from the familiar container of the book to the open frontier of the to...
Nikon is bringing SXSW attendees a practical HD-SLR workshop hosted by The Bui Brothers on how to plot and shoot a music video. Featuring local Austin rockers, The Statesboro Revue, attendees will watch and interact with...
See the Austin screening of NO ROOM FOR ROCKSTARS and experience the punk rock juggernaut that is the Vans Warped Tour. NO ROOM FOR ROCKSTARS depicts true stories of modern era rock and roll from the kids in the van pla...
"Seeking Asian Female" is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds...
Director(s): Debbie Lum
Documentary Feature
80 min
Academy-Award-winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and restrained performance as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs w...
Director(s): Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
Narrative Feature
74 min
For 2012 SXSW is highlighting Austin's local art scene in the Trade Show Meet Up Pavilion. A full gallery of work by Austin artists is installed in the Pavilion. Stop in anytime the Trade Show is open to enjoy the art an...
For 2012 SXSW is highlighting Austin's local art scene in the Trade Show Meet Up Pavilion. A full gallery of work by Austin artists is installed in the Pavilion. Stop in anytime the Trade Show is open to enjoy the art an...
For 2012 SXSW is highlighting Austin's local art scene in the Trade Show Meet Up Pavilion. A full gallery of work by Austin artists is installed in the Pavilion. Stop in anytime the Trade Show is open to enjoy the art an...
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer’s block and can...
Director(s): Jonathan Lisecki
Narrative Feature
89 min
Thirty-five years in the life of Max (Keith Poulson), his best friend Sal (Nick Offerman) and a woman they both adore, Lyla (Jess Weixler).The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at w...
Director(s): Bob Byington
Narrative Feature
76 min
AARON BURR, PART 2 is a contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. The film explores the idea of history as a contested narrative.......
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
Mr. Sedlacek wrote one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005, everyday stories of his life, his village, and of international events. This animated documentary is based on 80 of those entries.......
Join Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka for a very inspirational keynote address and learn how your geek skills can transform the world for the better.......
"The Contest" is an observational documentary made during the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Preliminaries in 2010, depicting the world of the contestants' inner deliberations and emotions. The...
The 5th of May 2005, Beverly Charpentier declares an oath of allegiance to Catherine Robbe-Grillet. Hereby she gives up her freedom, for the rest of her life.......
Director(s): Lina Mannheimer
Documentary Short
13 min
DMX is hosting its SXSW Party for the 2nd consecutive year with this year’s event featuring Pandora for Business. The Neoclassic Soul themed event presents live performances including one by The Stepkids (American psyc...
Ellen and James are the only couple living in a ghost estate, an eerie silent maze of uniform houses populated only by spectral shrieking foxes. Ellen starts to photograph the foxes that raid the couple’s rubbish bin a...
Director(s): Lorcan Finnegan
Narrative Short
15 min
Making an Internet video is tough and making a good Internet video is almost impossible. Find out Funny Or Die's process for creating videos from the people who make them. Sit down with writers, directors and producers f...
Beginner
Presenters
Alex Fernie, Ally Hord, Betsy Koch, Darryl Gudmundson, Owen Burke
Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, 'In The Pines' documents a young woman's hunt for extraterrestrial meaning. Following a mysteriously purposeful hike through the Olympic Mountains, this film roots itse...
Director(s): Zeek Earl, Chris Caldwell
Narrative Short
9 min
Sit in on a live-stream of SXSW Interactive's Keynote presentation "Coding the Next Chapter of American History" with Jennifer Pahlka.
Join Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka for a very inspirational key...
Independent filmmakers are caught up in an environment of shifting revenue sources. Once reliable revenue sources, such as DVD, cable and broadcasting, are eroding and being replaced by the growing although uncertain VOD...
Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers in our Narrative Filmmaker Mentor category.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders ...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Bujalski, Bryan Poyser, Cherie Saulter, Janet Grillo, Jennifer Cochis, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Sean Durkin
An honest look at honesty and the effects of such when sexual identity, masculinity, jealousy, insecurity and trust all play out against one another amongst two individuals in the confines of a bedroom. Oh, and there's p...
Director(s): Robert G. Putka
Narrative Short
10 min
A Short Film About Ice Fishing
Director: Jason Shahinfar
In rural South Dakota two friends go out for the most explosive day of ice fishing either will ever experience.
Aaron Burr, Part 2
Director: Dana O'Keefe
History ...
Acclaimed actor Matthew Lillard ("The Descendants," "Scream") is at SXSW with his feature directorial debut. The star will chat with Indiewire about his first foray behind the camera.......
Acclaimed actor Matthew Lillard ("The Descendants," "Scream") is at SXSW with his feature directorial debut. The star will chat with Indiewire about his first foray behind the camera.......
Acclaimed actor Matthew Lillard ("The Descendants," "Scream") is at SXSW with his feature directorial debut. The star will chat with Indiewire about his first foray behind the camera.......
In the seventies, Paul Williams wrote hits like “We’ve Only Just Begun” "Evergreen" and “Rainbow Connection." He starred in Battle for the Planet of the Apes and on Johnny Carson’s couch and then...
Director(s): Stephen Kessler
Documentary Feature
84 min
“Ballet dancers get dodgy feet from dancing and I get dodgy hands from making their shoes!”
Ballet shoes may be worn by delicate girls, but they’re crafted by burly men whose hands tell another story... We delve i...
Director(s): Tali Yankelevich
Documentary Short
9 min
Liam (Liam Cunningham) and Michael (Michael Fassbender) are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men t...
Inspired by Billy Wilder's "People On Sunday" & Richard Linklater's "SLACKER", Playtime ("Spielzeit") is a seamless journey through the lives of German youth on a Sunday afternoon. Jan (...
Join frequent collaborators Randall Poster & Richard Linklater as they discuss the ever-changing and challenging world of music in relation to film. Music supervisor Poster has worked with the likes of Martin Scorses...
In the past 10 years, the advent of social photography has transformed the way we document history. Anyone with a smart phone can take pictures & share them with social networks in real-time, bypassing media gatekeep...
Two friends devote a winter afternoon in South Dakota to ice fishing, cold beers, friendly chatter, man’s best friend, guns, dynamite…all on a frozen lake.......
Director(s): Jason Shahinfar
Narrative Short
8 min
Chronicle of Oldrich S. (Czech Republic)
Director: Rudolf Smid
Mr. Sedlacek wrote one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005, everyday stories of his life,
his village, and of international events. This anim...
Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges...
"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Documentary Feature
80 min
A “quasi-musical” approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world. This documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country.......
Director(s): Renata Pinheiro, Sergio Oliveira
Documentary Short
21 min
"WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists" takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores e...
Director(s): Brian Knappenberger
Documentary Feature
89 min
What happens when a filmmaker and a creative director from an interactive shop try to work together? Which toolbox is each one bringing to the table? What is the role of the new producer who needs to navigate between the...
"WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, W...
Director(s): Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Documentary Feature
65 min
Two friends play 'Would You Rather.' When their choices magically start to come true, they find themselves in a variety of awkward and funny situations.......
Director(s): Brian McGinn, Rod Blackhurst
Narrative Short
7 min
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared from his home in San Antonio,Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family are overjo...
Director(s): Bart Layton
Documentary Feature
95 min
Emmy Award winning "Saturday Night Live" writer-turned-director, Matt Piedmont, will discuss directing Will Ferrell in his gonzo comedy, "Casa de mi Padre."......
Emmy Award winning "Saturday Night Live" writer-turned-director, Matt Piedmont, will discuss directing Will Ferrell in his gonzo comedy, "Casa de mi Padre."......
Emmy Award winning "Saturday Night Live" writer-turned-director, Matt Piedmont, will discuss directing Will Ferrell in his gonzo comedy, "Casa de mi Padre."......
Join us for Happy Hour and talk with thought leaders in Media and Entertainment. Be first to get your hands on just-released Z1 workstation, powered by NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics solutions. Expand your expertise with fre...
The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details.......
The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details.......
You don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to work at a hot tech company – come learn how you can land a job in the beautiful city of Austin. HomeAway will provide the insider perspective and answer any questions about...
You don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to work at a hot tech company – come learn how you can land a job in the beautiful city of Austin. HomeAway will provide the insider perspective and answer any questions about...
You don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to work at a hot tech company – come learn how you can land a job in the beautiful city of Austin. HomeAway will provide the insider perspective and answer any questions about...
YouTube hosts one of the largest, most diverse collections of voices and faces ever seen or heard in human history. On Dec 1, 2011, YouTube launched a new design for managing that content—the biggest update since the s...
YouTube hosts one of the largest, most diverse collections of voices and faces ever seen or heard in human history. On Dec 1, 2011, YouTube launched a new design for managing that content—the biggest update since the s...
YouTube hosts one of the largest, most diverse collections of voices and faces ever seen or heard in human history. On Dec 1, 2011, YouTube launched a new design for managing that content—the biggest update since the s...
During the week of SXSW in 2011, the White House’s Intellectual Property Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, released a whitepaper calling for increased government crack-down on copyright infringement. Espinel’s paper ca...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Snead, Jonathan Bailey, Katherine Sunstrom, Mark Petrolis, Patrick O'Keefe
It is standard in business to talk about "acquiring," "capturing," "locking in," "owning" and "managing" customers as if they were slaves or cattle.In the Internet Age, s...
What do Trent Reznor, Daft Punk, Linkin Park and The Chemical Brothers have in common? They are recording artists who have crossed over into the world of film composing. This panel will discuss why more filmmakers and st...
Beginner
Presenters
Joseph Trapanese, Kier Lehman, Mark Nishita, Mike Shinoda, Todd Bozung, Phil Gallo
What do Trent Reznor, Daft Punk, Linkin Park and The Chemical Brothers have in common? They are recording artists who have crossed over into the world of film composing. This panel will discuss why more filmmakers and st...
Beginner
Presenters
Joseph Trapanese, Kier Lehman, Mark Nishita, Mike Shinoda, Robert Kraft, Todd Bozung
The big dilemma for digital news publishing platforms is how to balance what people “want” to know with what people “need” to know. Most algorithms learn readers’ news consuming habits but have no ability to pr...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrian Klein, Cristina Cordova, Gabriel Sama, Mandy Jenkins, Staci Baird
With the Agile Manifesto reaching its 10th birthday last year this one-time fringe software development methodology has become very much mainstream. Requiring feedback early and often, Agile’s main goal is to get softw...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cathie Hagen, Marie-Claire Jenkins, Megan Cook, Neville Roy Singham
Gamification, eh? You’ve seen it all over the place, but likely never noticed. From Farmville and Mafia Wars to Foursquare and Gowalla, gamification has spread like wild fire in recent years – Daily deal platforms ar...
Intermediate
Presenters
Frank Barry, Laura Hartman, Patty Huber, Randy Paynter, Steve Kehrli
Get together with other Brand Managers for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Come discuss the challenges and rewards of representing your brand in the digital worl...
Back in the day, independent films were known for pushing the boundaries on depiction's of sexuality. But where do we stand today? A panel of filmmakers will discuss that line, along with thoughts on how a current crop o...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Gore, Jessica King, Julie Keck, Sophia Takal, Lisa Vandever
Not only is China on course to having the #1 economy in the world, but it's also establishing itself as the most influential country in the world. Its 500 million strong internet user population makes up the single large...
When you film people you run the risk of breaching their rights such as privacy, publicity and defamation. See clips from actual law suits that tested the limits of these rights and the releases used by filmmakers. Does ...
Will we someday look to the government technologist as a Web superstar? An innovation idol? A technology trailblazer?
In this session we will explore how government technologists deal with the demands of meeting custome...
Beginner
Presenters
Aurelio Tinio, Emily Wright-Moore, Julio Gonzalez, Kevin Curry, Matthew Esquibel
Meet chef, author & television personality Anthony Bourdain and the crew behind the award-winning series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, who help Tony oversee the show’s social media presence.
Tony and his tru...
Beginner
Presenters
Anthony Bourdain, Anthony De Rosa, Helen Cho, Tom Vitale, Zach Zamboni
In this panel we'll explore ways for storytellers to use diversity as a tool to enrich themselves, their projects and the audience in a positive way. We'll discuss programs in the industry that assist filmmakers of diver...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Moore, Elizabeth Avellan, Parvesh Cheena, Vicente Williams
Usability testing is an interaction designer’s bread and butter, but applying it to the study of mobile applications and websites brings considerable challenges. Which device should we use for testing? Can we use an em...
Radio has long been the principal pipeline connecting fans to artists. Even today it still accounts for 80% of the time Americans spend listening to music. But this medium is now undergoing a profound transformation driv...
A new generation of social curation communities have risen over the past year with the mission of enhancing shopping and product discovery across retailers. These services provide an easy way to create wish lists and cur...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cannon Hodge, Dave Surgan, Elizabeth Canon, Hilary Peterson, Rachel Tipograph
Radio no longer drives music sales - social does. In fact, if you get your strategy right, you can drive sales almost entirely through your existing fans.This panel session will be led by Crowd Factory CEO Sanjay Dholaki...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Mortimer, Cyndi Lynott, David Bell, Kevin Monty, Sanjay Dholakia
Ryan King (System Engineer at Twitter) and Tom Wilkie (co-founder and VP engineering at Acunu) delve into the bowels of Apache Cassandra, the highly scalable second-generation distributed database in use at Twitter, Netf...
On the precipice of adulthood, fourteen-year-old Lisellen Uhlmann is without a man in her life; her father is distant and boys in school ignore her. When Duncan Baits invites her to hang out with his friends, everything ...
Google+ launched user profiles in June last year and Pages for businesses in November. With 90M users and 1M Pages as of mid-January, this platform is growing strong. Whether you are a newbie thinking about joining Goo...
A very short comedy set in a retirement home with senior citizens. On the morning of his birthday, Emmett asks his fellow residents to guess his age and is surprised by their answers.......
All hell breaks loose when seven-year-old Petey is left with his hell-raising brothers. But things go from bad to really, really bad when Dad gets home.......
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Producing X Factor US for the first season was no small task. Wrap new social TV strategies around the promotion and production and you've got quite an act! In this session you will learn how social was integrated into t...
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Wilcox, Jill Johnson, Olivier Delfosse, Sam Decker
More and more Austin-based tech companies are getting more and more financing (from sources inside and outside Central Texas). Learn who is investing, what they are investing in and why the area is attracting so much att...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Busey, Jamie Rhodes, Julie Huls, Morgan Flager, Rudy Garza
With the release of Holy Hell, the first movie to premiere as a Ipad App, a new distribution frontier opens up for independent filmmakers. As a new business model of DIY cinema, the app suggests a new model for release, ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeff Blagg, Lowell Bartholomee, Matthew Cohen, Rafael Ruiz
In rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit returning to his family. Where he's been is unknown. In spite of their warm welcome he can't shake a rising anger. So he must leave them again. This...
Director(s): James M. Johnston
Narrative Short
12 min
We all know social media's genius at pretending to read our minds. Facebook and Google+ reintroduce us to our friends; Pandora plays us music we're algorithmically likely to enjoy; Amazon delivers us to authors who feel ...
When it comes to health and wellness programs, patient engagement is often the coveted yet elusive brass ring. Despite all the clinical expertise that goes into developing systems for patient care and education, non-comp...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Penenberg, Leslie Saxon, Lora Kolodny, Michael Fergusson, Noreen Kamal
Join the filmmakers of Rising from Ashes, the subjects of BTS, for a discussion on the power of a behind the scenes web series to support your film. What happens when you stop marketing and use the medium to inspire and ...
Beginner
Presenters
Jacob Hamilton, Sean McCormick, Greg Kwedar, TC Johnstone
Some ebooks are print edition replicas, some are overstuffed mediafests. Neither fulfill one of screen publishing’s biggest promises: adapting content to meet readers’ needs. The digital page can do much more than it...
When you’re running a small company, interns are amazing in theory (free labor!), yet in practice often a big fail. But do it right, and a strategically run army of interns can mean the difference between failure and s...
Festivals and markets are as vital as ever in today's filmmaking scene. Learn what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - when it comes to festival submissions, festival attendance, and beyond for Narrative films...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Roffman, Erik Jambor, Hugues Barbier, Jenn Murphy, Jon Korn, Lane Kneedler, Mike Keegan, Stephanie Trepanier
Online culture, unlike any other medium, was mostly created by people dicking around. Fake Twitter accounts, single-topic blogs, microsites, image macros, even 4chan trolls are building a rich, constantly evolving creati...
Intermediate
Presenters
Christopher Price, Cole Stryker, Jon Hendren, Katie Notopoulos, Nick Douglas
Navigating the mobile-digital music landscape is difficult at best. The growing number of mobile music providers who is focused on or struggle with - how to distribute, monetize, drive downloads, and engage in consumer b...
Advanced
Presenters
Archie O'Connor, Bobby Rosenbloum, Jeff Roberto, John Bolton
Mobile payments are booming. Nearly 70 million Americans with smartphones are looking for a convenient way to pay without using plastic. Enter NFC, Google Wallet, Tabbedout and other technologies and companies making it ...
“Mobile first” is the mantra on the lips of most mobile evangelists. The trouble is, the advice of many experts to start fresh with a new mobile design, optimize for performance, and try to accommodate all mobile dev...
J-Lab counts more than 1,200 entrepreneurial news start-ups around the country. Placeblogger counts 4,000-plus placeblogs. These sites often get bad raps from traditional media for being the equivalent of unlicensed dri...
Education is stuck in the past. Yet, after decades of incubation, technology is revolutionizing teaching, learning, and assessment. Around the world, people are increasingly using mobile devices to connect with each othe...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Conover, Michael Mayrath Ph D, Paul Resta, Priya Nihalani
The people-powered revolution, fueled by the Internet and technology, is changing everything -- especially the worlds of activism, media and policy. Today, the conversation about the Internet’s role has never been loud...
Yes multitouch devices are all the rage among consumers. Yet enterprise software environments (aka, Big IT-driven Corps) are frantically playing catch up as "consumery mindsets" (with iPhones, iPads, Androids,...
What happens when tens of thousands of archival photos are shared with open licenses, then mashed up with geolocation data and current photos? Or when app developers can freely utilize information and images from millio...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrian Stevenson, Jon Voss, Julie Allinson, Rachel Frick
Writer of the award-winning blog, Cupcakes and Cashmere (and soon-to-be-published book under the same name), Emily Schuman shares how she got her start in blogging and how she turned it into a successful business. She e...
Trailers are a unique form of advertising. The product is not a car or a shampoo. It's a story. And sometimes, that's a huge problem.
Drawing on two decades of experience, Mark Woollen, creator of trailers from Schindl...
Get together with other single sign on experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or...
With the onset of Google+ Hangouts, Skype on Facebook, and the plethora of other social media sites, how and where do the kids fit in? Or should they be left out of the equation all together? Our panelists will share the...
Intermediate
Presenters
Christine Egy Rose, Hayes Raffle, Ian Small, Patty Chang, Svetlana Gous
While a boy waits out his father's tryst he is unexpectedly forced to deal with the lady-friend's daughter. Set on a ranch in Bastrop, Texas, Spark uses the environment to explore the internal space of children. Shot on ...
Director(s): Annie Silverstein
Narrative Short
8 min
Entertainment Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)...
What happened to you at the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival? Did you learn a new skill? Did you make a new business connection? Did you discover a great restaurant? Did you stumble upon your long-lost soul mate? Attend t...
foolproof
Directors: Zach Anner, Marshall Rimmer
Zach Anner, the freeloading roommate, and Marshall Rimmer, the responsible businessman, eat their
morning cereal together.
The Gathering Squall
Director: Hannah Fidell
A ...
What It's Like is a true story. John - a magazine writer - visits Mastow, a complete stranger living in a retirement home. John has only a room number and a name, both written on the back of a Chinese food menu beside a ...
Projects might be complex or simple, but the real catch is finding ways to collaborate with the different personalities involved. Sometimes these challenges come in the form of an un-managed client, coworker or peer. Eit...
The use of technology by women in the Global South is growing fast!
From Africa to South America to Southeast Asia, women in the Global South are using technology tools in new and creative ways with astounding results. ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Catherine Harrington, Emily Jacobi, Jenn Sramek, Kara Andrade, Zawadi Nyong'o
The digital world is changing too fast to let the industry label its roles with yet another buzzword. Remember digital ninjas? Social media mavens? Twitterholics?
One moment, you are a self-proclaimed "guru" -...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ana Andjelic, Angeline Vuong, Natalie Rodic Marsan, Sonny Gill
You design to elicit responses from people. You want them to buy, read, register, or take an action. In order to design for people you need to understand how people read, how people see, how people make decisions, what m...
In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as their new diet forces them to navigate the agricultural indu...
Director(s): Andrew Beck Grace
Documentary Feature
62 min
Showcasing DJ and live music performances from the FADER FORT, brought to you by Converse.
Housed in a first-of-its kind structure for SXSW, the 3-domed Nokia Lab located at 2nd and Brazos will give SXSW Interactive att...
*up to 200 available*
Follow @girlsHBO to find out how to eat and drink for FREE at SXSW #mistakesGIRLSmake
Here's how:
1) @girlsHBO will tweet out key images at the start of every deal
2) Show the correct key image to...
HomeAway is looking for new talent! Come rock out with our employee house bands and learn how you could work in Austin. This is a free event for SXSW badge holders.
Win a $1,500 vacation rental stay by dropping off your...
The SXSW Block Party is modeled after a traditional pub crawl. Instead of bars, SXSW Registrants move between participating exhibitors for complimentary refreshments and great networking.......
The SXSW Block Party is modeled after a traditional pub crawl. Instead of bars, SXSW Registrants move between participating exhibitors for complementary refreshments and great networking.......
The SXSW Block Party is modeled after a traditional pub crawl. Instead of bars, SXSW Registrants move between participating exhibitors for complementary refreshments and great networking.......
RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning liv...
RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning liv...
RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning liv...
A family is shaken to the core when they discover their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse because of his love for his abuser, while his abu...
Henrik is in deep trouble. His girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he's deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is...
Director(s): Christian Sønderby Jepsen
Documentary Feature
86 min
Pregnant by music? On her 15th birthday, Rachel, a young Mormon girl from a fundamentalist Utah community, discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, she has a miracu...
Director(s): Rebecca Thomas
Narrative Feature
96 min
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction ca...
There’s an app for that. And you are the developers. iPhone, Android, and Blackberry developers can come meet up to share ideas, stories, bugs, and frustrations. Publishers and brands are invited to meet developers tha...
There’s an app for that. And you are the developers. iPhone, Android, and Blackberry developers can come meet up to share ideas, stories, bugs, and frustrations. Publishers and brands are invited to meet developers tha...
There’s an app for that. And you are the developers. iPhone, Android, and Blackberry developers can come meet up to share ideas, stories, bugs, and frustrations. Publishers and brands are invited to meet developers tha...
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton has become highly specialized in working with clients with disability. Rachel’s philosophy, that human touch and sexual intimacy can b...
Director(s): Catherine Scott
Documentary Feature
70 min
Sometimes inspiration is found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks -- and in the men and women who pick up our trash. She joins city sanitation workers on their daily ...
Director(s): Andrew Garrison
Documentary Feature
65 min
We often think of collaboration as what happens when one person invites another to help make a project better. What happens when you collaborate with a crowd? With everyone from professional dancers to strangers on the s...
Beginner
Presenters
Jacob Krupnick, Jessi Arrington, Kendel Ratley, Youngna Park
Imagine building a company that lives through booms, bubbles and busts; a company that keeps innovating and creating value; a company that’s around in 100 years. It’s not as crazy as you think, but it requires a radi...
663114
Director: Isamu Hirabayashi
I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big
accident.
Belly
Director: Julia Pott
I can feel you in my belly.
Caldera
Director: Eva...
Austin Browncoats is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization located in Austin, Texas. We started as a small fan group, but, in 2007, changed paths and became a non-profit organization. We are often asked about this journey...
In the 1980s, several seeds were planted that led to the entrepreneurial environment Greater Austin enjoys today. Among these seeds were the State’s winning bid for the MCC, the founding of Austin Ventures, and the fou...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bryan Menell, Isaac Barchas, Mark Pannes, Mellie Price, Steve Guengerich
Many of us are racing to be first to market, or release something in time for a specific event. Running and gunning on the product design battlefield is a tremendous challenge because it takes time to design things that ...
Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.......
Throughout the last decade, Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) swept the globe, heralding a new craze for dance & gaming experiences. But as with many dance games, the harder it gets (as players advance through levels), th...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Glowacki, Joseph Hyde, Laura Kriefman, Matthew Bickerton, Victoria Tillotson
For twenty years, Scott Snibbe has advocated for a new form of interactive entertainment that moves beyond video games to treat interactivity as a full medium in its own right. He argues that interactivity has the same p...
Making a great product isn’t really all that different than making a World Series run. In both cases, the organization must assemble the right mix of talent, motivation, independent spirit and willingness to be coached...
Caldera is an animated short film about a young girl struggling with mental illness. The story follows her as she goes off her medication and leaves a bleak metropolis to immerse herself in a vibrant oceanic cove.......
Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia...
Director(s): Matt Piedmont
Narrative Feature
84 min
Chocolate Milk is the #1 goal. At least, that is what the Rehab informs the teenage Izzy as she enters for drug treatment. If she follows all their rules, then she can have chocolate milk. But why would she want some lam...
Combustion plunges the viewer, from each image and note to the next, closer and closer to its materials as they catch fire and culminate in an explosion of colours and sounds! Carried along by a scorching musical score, ...
Reviews are so Web 2.0 – the next generation of crowdsourcing goes well beyond a simple user-generated review. But, how can companies utilize the power of the crowd to build content and, ultimately, their business? Doe...
Over the past decade, we’ve seen consumers opt for digital downloads over the almost-extinct CD. In 2010, CD sales suffered a 20 percent decline for the fourth year in a row, with digital downloads garnering a 13 perce...
The internet is a virtual playground for all kinds of bullies, those in it just for the "lulz" to those in it for the cold hard cash. This workshop will demonstrate how you can use ESAPI to protect your applica...
Many short filmmakers struggle to find an audience for their films, and very few ever get compensated for their efforts. Don't short filmmakers deserve an opportunity to showcase their skill and talents? This panel discu...
Beginner
Presenters
Brandon Broussard, Christine Boulware, Christopher Holland, Roberta Munroe, Liz Miller
From Jay and Mark Duplass, the writer/directors of the Sundance hits “The Puffy Chair,” “Cyrus” and the upcoming “Jeff Who Lives at Home” comes “The Do-Deca-Pentathalon” - the story of two grown brothers ...
Director(s): Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Narrative Feature
90 min
No one resides at their desk anymore, and carrying a laptop around is tedious. The recent advancements in smartphone and tablet technology has given corporations the platform to provide their workforce with the tools ne...
As the smartphone evolves into a mobile commerce device, is the traditional wallet becoming an endangered species? What exactly is this elusive digital wallet and what can it do that a leather wallet can’t? Imagine a w...
Intermediate
Presenters
Devaraj Southworth, Don Kingsborough, Jim Mccarthy, Lauren Goode, Steve Schultz
Terra Networks CEO and co-founder Fernando Madeira will discuss behavior and trends of consumption of news and entertainment, particularly music and video, in Latin America. Just as sports has become entertainment, ente...
Every director and producer has a great white whale: the groundbreaking, fascinating, inspirational music documentary that just couldn't get made. Maybe the band got camera shy; maybe the music rights were controlled by ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Amir Bar-Lev, Ilko Davidov, Mandy Stein, Mark Ford, Warren Cohen
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
5:00PM - 6:00PM
The benevolent Internet promotes expression, collaboration and experimentation. But the current legal scheme can make the Internet a place where digital tracks persist long after their intended use. In a world of d0xing ...
School budget cuts, high unemployment (over 20% for youth), and a global economy – No wonder parents are concerned about their child’s success and 70% of teens say they want more guidance. What can you do? In this ex...
Every day we meet companies who realize the importance of participating in social media but have no idea how to begin.
“What department does social media live in; Marketing, IT, PR, Customer Support?”
“What...
A boy goes missing in the snow covered wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts ca...
JavaScript is everywhere from mobile phones and tablets to e-readers and TVs. With such a wide range of supported environments developers are often looking for an easy way to compare the performance between
snippets, bro...
Advanced
Presenters
Chris Joel, John David Dalton, Kyle Simpson, Lindsey Simon
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses migrate from the United States to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring people to work each day. Sin...
Director(s): Mark Kendall
Documentary Feature
71 min
Let’s face it. Leif Garrett (1979) and Justin Bieber (2011) are the same thing. Both made music videos, both had photo spreads in Tiger Beat, and both look(ed) more like girls than boys. It’s the same marketing formu...
Festivals and markets are as vital as ever in today's filmmaking scene. Learn what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - when it comes to festival submissions, festival attendance, and beyond for Documentary Fil...
Beginner
Presenters
Benjamin Fowlie, Carolyn Meili, Holly Herrick, Karim Ahmad, Kyle McKinnon, Martijn te Pas
Part of the magic of the movies has always been the act of going to the cinema. Is this just because they have a bigger screen than you have at home, or a better sound system? Of course not. The visceral experience of s...
Part of the magic of the movies has always been the act of going to the cinema. Is this just because they have a bigger screen than you have at home, or a better sound system? Of course not. The visceral experience of s...
If you got a team of the greatest children’s book writers in the world together, they couldn’t invent Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply stranger than fiction.
A few ...
If you got a team of the greatest children’s book writers in the world together, they couldn’t invent Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply stranger than fiction.
A few ...
If you got a team of the greatest children’s book writers in the world together, they couldn’t invent Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply stranger than fiction.
A few ...
Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise is an animated horror film constructed from the candid photos and handwritten messages of discarded high school yearbooks. As an unknown force seeps into the walls of the school...
Swirling cosmos of paint give way to a storm of color and drips. An experimental animation that is a mix of paint on glass and stop motion, Paint Showers is the anticipation, fury, and release of a colorful storm.......
DJ-hosted Casino Happy Hour from 5-7 with daily drink specials and prizes. Check the schedule and RSVP at: pandora.com/PandoraATX, @pandora_radio, #PandoraATX. Admission granted for SXSW badges or advance RSVP.......
Hollywood and the international news media delight in presenting us with depictions of hackers and hacktivists as subterranean Ohmian "Super Users," capable of hacking *all* the ISPs with a few keystrokes in be...
Using a found object as a catalyst Reddish Brown and Blueish Green explores a family’s destructive journey through childhood. Much of the imagery in the film comes from a baby book found on a curb in Philadelphia, Penn...
It's every engineers dream to work on a company that becomes one of the top 10 largest sites online. This group of panelists have done just that. From Twitter to Facebook to Yahoo! - these engineers, tech operations, a...
Advanced
Presenters
Andrew Terng, Girish Patangay, Jeremy LaTrasse, Jeremy Edberg, Lee Holloway
In 2005, I started learning about the so-called Semantic Web. It wasn’t till 2008, the same year I started my PhD that I finally understood what the Semantic Web was really about. At the time, I made a $1000 bet with 3...
The bulk of social media and Web 2.0 use in Congress and state legislatures has until now largely been composed of personal tweets and posts by legislators and staff, pushing communications out without engaging in true c...
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (B...
Consumers today expect more and more from your brand. While some would argue, consumer's now "own" your brand, we counter with the notion that companies who’ve lost their brands to their consumers did so beca...
Placing the letters "NSFW" on an article is supposed to tell people to keep away unless they're browsing from home, but seasoned web producers know those four letters usually bring in more readers than they'll ...
The history of 3D movies has been a long but not necessarily distinguished one. Originally devised in the late 18th century in the very early days of movie making, it has had several bursts of popularity every decade sin...
The passionate closing remarks of this visionary thinker are a long-time tradition for SXSW Interactive attendees. Come hear what Bruce Sterling likes (and doesn't like) about the tech industry and the world at large in ...
Being a digital native is taking on new meaning now that kids can interact with iPads before they're out of diapers. From enabling autistic children to communicate, to mastering four-syllable words before they reach four...
Bandpage HQ at 604-606 E 7th St offers high speed internet, free massages, and meetup/presentation opportunities during the day, then transforms into SXSW's ultimate party each night featuring future - tech multimedia in...
Join new Small Business Ambassador, Lindsey C. Holmes and other Evernote enthusiasts for an Evernote Meetup during SXSW 2012. We'll chat about how to use Evernote to Manage, Organize and Streamline your Small Business wo...
Come mix, mingle and enjoy complimentary appetizers and beverages before the main event gets underway. The 15th annual Interactive Awards never fails to entertain and delight. Featuring soon-to-be-announced entertainment...
"Under African Skies" travels with Paul Simon back to South Africa on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his historic Graceland album. Paul reunites with the original band to give a reunion concert and to ...
Director(s): Joe Berlinger
Documentary Feature
108 min
A talk show that’s both absurd and academic, with interviews that explore comics’ most awkward moments, celebrating the not-always-fun parts of doing comedy.......
A talk show that’s both absurd and academic, with interviews that explore comics’ most awkward moments, celebrating the not-always-fun parts of doing comedy.......
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the...
Director(s): Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus
Narrative Feature
85 min
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
"The Last Fall" is a coming of age sports drama about the difficulties an NFL journeyman faces when trying to transition to life after his playing days are over.......
Director(s): Matthew A. Cherry
Narrative Feature
98 min
Toast SXSW Film’s Award Nominees at this year’s SXSW Film Awards Reception. The pre-awards party offers complimentary drinks and apps and is a great way to kick of the night.......
A Texas college student flees the hypocrisy of his religious upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at 'the most godless campus in America.' Based on the New York Times bestseller by Donald Miller.......
Director(s): Steve Taylor
Narrative Feature
106 min
Can a capitalist music producer and a communist doctor and artist work together? In Cuba they can! Michel Miglis is a Swedish music producer, known for his provocative ideas and El Medico is a doctor and a singer, born a...
Director(s): Daniel Fridell
Documentary Feature
85 min
Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia...
Director(s): Matt Piedmont
Narrative Feature
84 min
When a police officer tells you to do something, you do it. Right?
On a busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that a pretty young em...
Singer-songwriter Mike Rocket will be making his SXSW debut this year, performing the first set of the entire music festival! Rocket has been consistently rocking the New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia areas for ove...
Cold Rock, U.S.A. Children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of The Tall Man, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen ag...
Director(s): Pascal Laugier
Narrative Feature
100 min
In the summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end of year music version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. To engage her students, she uses hits of the tim...
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick Forbes
Documentary Feature
81 min
“WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. "Safety Not Guaranteed". I have only done this once before.”
When an unusual cl...
Director(s): Colin Trevorrow
Narrative Feature
85 min
From the producers of "Step Into Liquid", comes "Waiting For Lightning", the story of Danny Way, a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him an...
Director(s): Jacob Rosenberg
Documentary Feature
87 min
Ariane Moffatt is an adventurer. The Montreal singer-songwriter’s illustrious career is marked by curiosity ¬– sonic, musical and emotional – and it’s contagious. She has built a devoted following in Quebec over...
Bee vs. Moth is an instrumental jazz/rock band from Austin, TX. The band’s eclectic sound has been described as a mix between Ornette Coleman and Television. Bee vs. Moth has been featured on NPR's "All Songs Conside...
Black Bone Child started in 2008 as a musical collaboration between Donny James and Kenneth M. Patterson. Through a shared love of delta style blues and modern rock, the two wrote their self-titled debut over email, even...
Brandon Patton aka BL4k Lotus is a songwriter from New Haven, CT who has also toured as a bassist for MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Futureboy. His solo albums are known for their extreme ecclecticism, each one inha...
Bruce Hughes and the All Nude Army (BHANA) is fronted by life-long Austin musician Bruce Hughes (The Resentments, Jason Mraz, Bob Schneider, The Scabs, Ugly Americans, Cracker, Poi dog Pondering) who gathered some of his...
CANDY is an independent Mexican Post-punk New-wave band that was formed in 2005. They are 3 multi-national musicians that were born and raised in various parts of the planet, before meeting in Mexico where they have know...
Eric Mikulak, also known as Click-Clack, is a 21 year old self produced hip-hop and r&b vocalist. Growing up in Austin, Texas, Eric was exposed to and submerged in all different styles of music from an early age. As year...
Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party!
Musician, sign-painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart has been a cult personality since 1988, when he first began producing The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program on public access cable. After a stint...
"Once in a while an artist comes along and shows so much heart, versatility and just genuine talent, that they're impossible to ignore. Therefore it's been no surprise to see Deniro Farrar flooding the pages of the inter...
Presented by: Daniel Johnston "Space Ducks" Launch Party
With Whistle Tips, Brooklyn, NY quartet Dinosaur Feathers flee from the tropics of their debut, 2009’s Fantasy Memorial, and push themselves into hitherto unexplored and ultimately rewarding new territories. Once tethe...
It’s rare for a young musician to earn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. It’s even harder to find an artist who has entirely redefined an instrument by his early thirties. But Jake Shimabukuro...
King Stork was started by four guys with long backgrounds in music, as an excuse to drink beer and blow off steam playing Strokes and Ventures covers after work. By the beginning of 2011, the band was working on new mate...
Las Guitarras de España is a Chicago based world music ensemble with a Spanish guitar foundation. Members of the ensemble have visited over 30 countries to gather materials and collaborate with artists from such places ...
" A little Sensation" `(Groove Mag) "Brilliantly Composed" (Financial Times) , "A soothing Mix of Pop Massage and Synth Soul Meditation" (Rolling Stone)
Released in 2011 worldwide via Copenhagen based Fake Diamond R...
Love Inks is a minimalist pop band from Texas. Their sound is imbued with raw emotion, sexuality, and splashes of electronic colour. Focus is placed primarily on the voice, which is direct and honest.......
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Early collaborators Marques Nash (Vocals, Piano and Shago Elizondo (Guitar and Backing Vocals) and Andy Morimoto (Bass) formed the original foundation in December, 2006….it wasn’t until the addition of Je...
Ever since moving operations from his parent’s basement in Tacoma, Washington to Brooklyn, 20 year old Brad Oberhofer has been carefully honing his own brand of bedroom pop, which is as affecting and genuine as it is n...
Oh My Me was formed in Lexington, Ky in 2010. With a wildly-varying musical background, the group blends an eclectic mix of battering drums, psychedelia & heavy-soul vocals to form it's uniquely theatrical sound. Surpris...
Salt to Bitters
From lilt to lurch, from swagger to stagger, Salt To Bitters crashes its way across a bittersweet soundscape in fits and starts, tempering depravity with a tunefulness that could only have been born in t...
R&B singer-songwriter Steven A. Clark broke onto the scene in 2010 with his soul-baring and darkly arranged eight-song LP debut STRIPES, which earned him the title of “Miami’s best independent album of 2011” by loc...
Boasting an almost Google-proof name, Teengirl Fantasy is the project of Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi. Weiss and Takahashi, who craft an atmospheric yet driving sound -- borrowing from deep house, shoegaze, and other s...
Thomas Wynn & The Believers….“Southern Soul Rock Muscle” - The Orlando Sentinel.
TW&TB personifies rugged, yet uplifting spirited rock, sprinkled with southern soul R&B. Tunes brutally honest & heartfelt, the t...
The best improvisers in the country come together to put on an irreverent show made up on the spot, featuring performers from the acclaimed theater’s Los Angeles and New York outposts.
Chris Gethard
Shannon O’Neill
J...
Presenters
Chris Gethard, Joe Wengert, Katie Dippold, Pete Holmes, Shannon O'Neill
The best improvisers in the country come together to put on an irreverent show made up on the spot, featuring performers from the acclaimed theater’s Los Angeles and New York outposts.
Chris Gethard
Shannon O’Neill
J...
Presenters
Chris Gethard, Joe Wengert, Katie Dippold, Pete Holmes, Shannon O'Neill
Wild Child, indie-folk pop band from Austin, Texas, began as an acoustic duo consisting of Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins singing ukulele love songs written and shared over red wine and old photographs. The two met ...
Rapid Ric “The Mechanic”, mans the pipeline of the Lone Star State's top talent, furthering the self-made legacy of Houston’s DJ Screw, Swishahouseʼs Michael Watts, Chamillitary (mentioned in the in 2007 as the 10...
(mt) Media Temple is back hosting the official SXSWi Closing party! Come by Stubb's for drinks & awesome performances by Kasabian, Miike Snow & other special guests. Check mediatemple.net/sxsw for more info!......
“Though the sound is bigger than a folk record, the dark lyrics are wrapped in familiar Americana. The instrumentation is meticulous—nothing sounds out-of-place, especially the aching pedal steel, which is used with ...
Adam WarRock has taken his lifelong obsession with hip hop and comic books and created an Internet sensation. Whether he was being personally cited by Nathan Fillion for his Firefly-inspired Browncoats Mixtape, or openin...
"Dollhouse" explores a night in the life of a group of street teens from Dublin's inner city who break into a house in an upper class suburb. The break-in quickly moves into a night of frenzy, driven by a serie...
Director(s): Kirsten Sheridan
Narrative Feature
95 min
"Lovely Molly" is a gripping horror thriller that begins as newlywed Molly Reynolds moves back into her long-abandoned childhood home. Soon, she experiences unnerving and impossible things. What starts as a sim...
Director(s): Eduardo Sanchez
Narrative Feature
95 min
On paper Vex Ruffin’s music is simple: an untrained punk musician who uses a few basic instruments in uncomplicated ways, he calls the style ‘minimalist.’ Although it may not seem like it upon first listen, Vex’s...
After twelve years of making music on the road and at home, local darlings Cruiserweight disbanded in 2010. Siblings Stella and Urny Maxwell took a brief pause from the spotlight and international touring and then jumped...
Mysterious Brooklyn-imprint Sacred Bones Records presents an evening of original and curated programming for a special SXSW film & music crossover event featuring music videos, short films, works in progress, and liv...
Director(s): Jacqueline Castel
Narrative Feature
300 min
Mysterious Brooklyn-imprint Sacred Bones Records presents an evening of original and curated programming for a special SXSW film & music crossover event featuring music videos, short films, works in progress, and live mu...
The Apache Relay was formed by chance in a Nashville college dorm when Michael Ford Jr. (vocals, bass) met Mike Harris (guitar, vocals). Ford Jr. happened to be looking for some musicians to help perform his own music li...
The Boxing Lesson is a group of psychedelic progressive rock musicians based in Austin, TX. Currently a power trio with synthesizers performing the bass player's role, they create a layered sound that usually starts mini...
L.A.’s Capital Cities arrive with a little sonic head rush called ‘Safe and Sound’, an easy, breezy, beautiful slice of effervescent electro-pop that even comes complete with a massive ‘trumpets-in-da-club’ bit...
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom. De...
Director(s): Rick Alverson
Narrative Feature
92 min
"When I begin to explore and to build a song through a series of pedals, I begin with the tuner. It helps keep my guitar's pitch consistent. An octave pedal and the distortion pedals allows me to change the textures and ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proud to present Hank Shocklee, Dan Friel, and special surprise DJs for a night of remixed, recreated, and downright DIY grooves where music, tech, and policy makers converge. ...
EMMA HEARTBEAT -two drummers and a female vocalist- first stepped on stage 2008 and they never came down until now! Their music is an energetic mixture of English rap, that intensely flirt with female bass music.
Afte...
The Envy Corps’ indie quasi-anthems, filled with galvanizing arrangements and elasticized melodies have garnered the Des Moines band the affection of the attentive Midwest and fans internationally.
Fans have been an...
“(…) while the biggest buzz around the festival was for Montreal trio Half Moon Run.”
Mark Monahan, Director of the Ottawa Bluesfest, interviewed by the Ottawa Sun
"Their minimal but textured rock had real dy...
The son of Cuban refugees who met in Texas, Ward's sixteen years of experience in the Austin music scene, including his previous band Sigmund Fraud, are obvious in the band's high energy, dance-floor filling shows. The m...
Il abanico is an Indie/Experimental band created in 2010 by Nicolás Losada (guitar) and Juliana Ronderos (Voice). They expose their personalities with innovative melodies, an upbeat rhythm section and unorthodox guitars...
Incan Abraham was founded in a garage in Rhinebeck, New York, in June 2009. In the fall of that year, the band relocated to Los Angeles, the hometown of three of its members, and Teddy, the only New Yorker, moved out Wes...
Tipped by the NME as one of the 100 bands to check out in 2012 and recently signed to Xtra Mile Recordings (Against Me!, Frank Turner) Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun make their maiden voyage to the States for SXSW 2012.
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Kydd hails from Austin, TX. Kydd is a 3 time sxsw performing artist, he has been on tour with The Cool Kids, Chip The Ripper, Pac Div, The Smokers Club 2010, Sneaker Pimps 2010, LRG's Homegrown Tour 2010, and was on the ...
Austin/Brooklyn-ite, Leslie Sisson, is the female vocalist and guitarist in The Wooden Birds while also moonlighting in Matt Pond PA. Her past includes time in Western Keys, Black Lipstick, The Killing Fields, Pavo, Tanw...
The documentary tells the story of Mustafa, a 16-year-old boy who works as a pastry shop apprentice in Gaziantep, the "Capital of Baklava", in Eastern Turkey. His dream is to become a famous pastry chef in Ista...
Director(s): Angelos Abazoglou
Documentary Feature
83 min
New Town Drunks music has been described as New Vaudeville, Rock and Roll Cabaret, Stream of Consciousness Folk Rock, a musical Bonnie and Clyde and other less clear descriptions. At the core of it is the show-stopping ...
Digital music service Rdio is proud to present a club night of electronic music and art at #FEED SXSW. Come celebrate the intersection of Interactive, Music and Film with live performances by Madeon, Com Truise, and Teen...
Join famed Indie-Film Director Robert Rodriquez and friends for a special night of Latin-fused rock and roll by Chingon & Tito and Tarantula. Chingon & Tito and Tarantula have been featured on the soundtracks of ...
RTB2 is a duo from Denton, TX formed in 2005 that blends rock and soul in a deconstructive manner using mutated backbeats, controlled guitar squeals, and expressive vocals. Their latest release is called "We Are a Strang...
17-year-old Ruby Jane is the real deal. Born in Dallas, TX, she is a fiddler, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist bandleader of “The Ruby Jane Show” showcasing her distinctive Americana mix of jazz, rock, ...
Schmillion formed in the summer of 2009. Back then we were 13-15 years old. But most of us drive now and Natalie has advanced to higher ed. Our sound is built on crunchy guitar riffs and belting vocals. We all have diffe...
Scorpio Rising is an electro/dance/rock band from Austin, Texas, whose recordings and intense live performances have made them one of Austin’s premiere entertainment commodities. Hailed as one of Austin’s best Goth/I...
The Seedy Seeds don’t know you, but they already
like you. With a completely original sound and presentation, including banjo, accordion and toy keyboard beats, The Seedy Seeds create melodic, danceable music that is ...
((SOUNDER)) is the music project of Mike Aho, who splits his time as a
musician, visual artist and video director. In recent years Aho has
directed videos for Mando Diao, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and RTX in
addition...
Cory Dennis, Todd Harris, and Aaron Miller's first glimpse of success came in high school with The El Guapos, an indie-rock outfit that disbanded after three years of packed Austin venues, a capacity performance at the 2...
Union Specific began in the summer of 2008 in Sherman TX,
where singers/songwriters Tyler Wallace and Gregg Maher
attended Austin College, a small liberal arts university. The two
had long known of each other's son...
Thesis Sahib/James Kirkpatrick has been contributing to the underground hip hop movement for the past fifteen years, both as an innovative rapper and a well known graffiti artist. His articulate, rapid-fire delivery, har...
"When I think of how to write about Jonti's music, I don't feel like writing at all. I feel like drawing a picture, with watercolors and maybe crayon - colorful, abstract, youthfully curious and open to interpretation. M...
Presented by: Daniel Johnston "Space Ducks" Launch Party
Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, musical conceptualist, comedy writer, vocal stylist, filmmaker, sketchpad artist, drama example, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant, R. Stevie Moore was born 1952 in Nash...
Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album – the Austin, Texas-based band’s firs...
Sometimes, preconceived notions can be good; the comfort of expectations met is often a welcomed feeling. For the more adventurous among us, though, the best part of defined expectations and preconceived notions is havin...
"Sleepwalk With Me" is a comedy written by, directed by and starring comedian Mike Birbiglia, based on a true story he told in his one-man off-Broadway show and his first book. The film follows the journey of a...
Director(s): Mike Birbiglia
Narrative Feature
80 min
Richard Linklater's SLACKER inspired a generation of American filmmakers by exploring the subculture of Austin, Texas in a loose narrative with a tapestry of quirky characters. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of that ic...
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil Berkeley
Documentary Feature
88 min
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary, G...
Director(s): Don Letts
Documentary Feature
104 min
See Girl Run is what happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in ...
May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smac...
Director(s): Ernesto Foronda, Silas Howard
Narrative Feature
87 min
The Cowboys, the Grassy Knoll, J.R. Ewing, the Stanky Leg… Dallas, Texas, is known for lots of things. Progressive, forward-thinking hip-hop has, until now, not been one of them. That’s all starting to change, thanks...
Mysterious Brooklyn-imprint Sacred Bones Records presents an evening of original and curated programming for a special SXSW film & music crossover event featuring music videos, short films, works in progress, and live mu...
Bay Area funk sorcerer B. Bravo has assembled a crew of intergalactic badmen to form The Starship Connection - a synthesizer funk / future bass quartet co-piloted by producer and synth wizard Teeko (synths &talkbox), fea...
Black Books is a 5-piece band from Austin, TX playing a moody mix of dream pop and southern rock.
Friends since forever, Black Books since 2010.
Look for their first album this Spring.......
Louisiana’s own dark star and Orpheus of the underground, Dax Riggs – the fool in your tarot deck – trippin’ over his own tombstone,
reaching into the atmosphere and pulling spirits from the air. An alchemy of ...
The three of Each Other are Haligonians living in Montreal, Quebec. They've arrived together through a series of broken bands (Long Long Long, York Redoubt, Play Guitar) and at last have a common and resolute goal to le...
"Follow That Bird is a three piece band fronted by the expansive vocals and guitar playing of Lauren Green. Green brings a wave of guitar playing to the fold that shifts between relentless and just plain beautiful. The d...
Ian Moore is a singer/guitarist/songwriter who has released 10 full length records. He has opened for the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul Weller, and countless others. He has appeared in films such as Billy Bob Thorton's...
This songwriter can sing like an angel and write convincingly of God, honesty, love and all the good things in life. Her childlike acceptance and faith in people is obvious in her musical language and, as a muralist, her...
2011 and 2010 have already been momentous years for The Lions Rampant, after an European/American tour; the release of three 45's, a full length, and three music videos; they've just announced the addition of lead Soleda...
As a weather pattern forms its shape and sound out of the unknown and invisible into something tangible and rare, so does the dirty blues force “little hurricane”. This storm began when CC hung up her chef knives for...
Little Lo is an independent folk-rock sextet hailing from Austin, Texas. Their songs can best be described as swells; ranging from hushed whispering and strumming to anthemic shouts and trills (and back again) in the cou...
MARMALAKES is a three-piece folk-pop outfit comprised of Austin natives. Dynamic and concise, their lyric-attentive songs are laced with harmonies, enthusiasm and rock-out moments. Together now for 4 years, they've self-...
Michigander Martin Brummeler moved to Athens, GA in 2000 and began writing music under the moniker Mass Solo Revolt. His previous bands Data Cadet, and Propeller had released records in the late '90s on Fred Thomas'(Satu...
With a gritty, down and dirty flow that puts him in easy company with East coast greats like Method Man and Redman, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire evokes the days of mid-'90s hip-hop. Based out of New York, eXquire has a style...
Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party!
Quiet Company
Quiet Company is from Austin , Texas — a city rich in musical diversity, enormous talent and
towering musical history—but the quintet brings their own unique brand of indie power pop that
sets them a...
A soulful vocalist and innovative keyboardist, singer/songwriter and producer Rachael Sage has become one of the busiest touring artists in independent music, performing 150+ dates a year with her band The Sequins throug...
Re:Generation Music Project is a documentary film about original music collaborations that examine and re-imagine the history of different musical genres through the eyes of five of the most influential electronic produc...
Director(s): Amir Bar Lev
Documentary Feature
82 min
Shinobi Ninja is a Brooklyn-based party rock circus with an explosive live show. The band's music mashes up the sounds of 311, The Beastie Boys, Sublime, and Rage Against the Machine. This year, Shinobi has completed t...
Silverbus was formed in 2008. The band released their first EP "Today" in 2009, and they were invited as the opening/support band for Kings of Convenience Taipei concert in April 2010.
After releasing their first full...
Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party!
’90′s industrial kingpins, Skrew, have stripped off their exoskeleton to reveal an unholy bastion of extreme metal for an Antichrist nation. This angry metal machine is back with more psalms of destruction in a world...
Formerly known as the Film Closing Party, the Intermission Party is the blowout bash at the SXSW Film Festival. This can’t-miss event features a full bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres and live entertainment. Be sure to...
The TECHNICOLORS are a new, young American rock band based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Formed in 2010: front man BRENNAN SMILEY (guitars and lead vocals), MIKEY FANIZZA (guitars and vocals), MICHAEL NICOLETTE (bass) and
KEV...
TELEBIT is a young band, that emerged from Bogota independent scene in 2009.
Making a bet to rock music in spanish and electronic sounds, they created artificial atmospheres of alternative rock.
After performing in ...
Somewhere at the intersection of indie hip hop, rock and nerdcore culture you will find Charlotte’s premiere live hip hop band, The ThoughtCriminals. The ThoughtCriminals have made songs with some of nerdcore's bigges...
Forged on the molten streets of Austin, TX as foretold in the sacred texts of the ancient ones, the Tiny Adventurers now release their debut long-player, Wild-eyed in the Hinterlands. Featuring members of Austin’s Li...
At the front of the stage, Lauren Larson wrangles her guitar. She bends the strings, attacks chords, her fingers blurred as they feverishly travel up and down the neck doling out lick after melodic lick while her hair wh...
Voltaire Twins are a Perth-based indie dance quartet consisting of lead vocalists/synthesiser players Jaymes and Tegan, with drummer Matt and bass synthesiser player Jack.
The band’s latest single Animalia was launc...
Ultimate self-starters The Xcerts released their critically acclaimed debut album ʻIn The Cold Wind We Smile’ in 2009. In 2010 the band were invited to New York by super producer Mike Sapone for album number ‘Scatte...
Presented by: Daniel Johnston "Space Ducks" Launch Party
Kimya Dawson is a Grammy winning, platinum selling singer songwriter most widely known for her work on the JUNO soundtrack and her former band, The Moldy Peaches. She has released 6 solo albums, including a children's...
The man born Navyvadius Cash is ready to dominate the charts as the 25 year-old Atlanta native’s classic mixtapes have put the streets and clubs in his clutches with his first single “Tony Montana.”
“I’m ju...
Mister Loveless are a 4-piece rock band founded in 2003 by high school friends, Rob Miller and Charlie Koliha in a sleepy suburb of San Francisco called, Walnut Creek. Loveless (as those familiar with the band refer to t...
The Stepkids are futuristic electro soul recorded on a reel-to-reel; soaring harmonies sung by three singer/songwriters; Kandinsky-esque visuals that make for enigmatic live performances.
"A lot of what excites us abo...
Pete Holmes and Gabe Liedman lead a line-up of established and up-and-coming comics from all around the country. With Eliza Skinner, Chris Gethard, Joe Wengert and Jenny Slate.......
Presenters
Chris Gethard, Eliza Skinner, Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, Joe Wengert, Pete Holmes
Pete Holmes and Gabe Liedman lead a line-up of established and up-and-coming comics from all around the country. With Eliza Skinner, Chris Gethard, Joe Wengert and Jenny Slate.......
Presenters
Chris Gethard, Eliza Skinner, Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, Joe Wengert, Pete Holmes
Rappers/Producers Ghettosocks and Timbuktu are TEENBURGER and they’re a mouthful. Fast times, dope beats and rhymes, and bringing Old-School Rap back to the future are the order of the day for Hip-Hop's meatiest rap co...
Mysterious Brooklyn-imprint Sacred Bones Records presents an evening of original and curated programming for a special SXSW film & music crossover event featuring music videos, short films, works in progress, and live mu...
Most people assume that when a band makes it—that is, reaches a critical mass of listeners, where shows across the country get packed, where the big festivals come calling, where placement on year-end lists seems preem...
BITCHES are a noise pop duo from London. Blake plays on the bass guitar and shouts and Staz hits drums and screams. Their sound is a thrilling hybrid of fuzzed up, noisy punk combined with a playful, melodic pop sensibil...
The music of Bloody Beach is a conglomerate of musical styles from around the world, but always with a firm foothold in energetic indie rock. Everyone from Turkish DJs to Scandinavian indie kids has been blown away by th...
Brian Pounds' voice is the perfect aphrodisiac. It is effortlessly smooth, endearingly honest, and layered with a bite of soul that leaves you breathless. His ability to vividly shape words, and the intensity of his voic...
Calhoun’s music has been described as catchy, irresistible, gorgeous, melodic, sorta poppy, sorta rootsy, sorta rockin’, and, in general, really splendid music.
You can call it what you will, but lead singer Tim L...
ABOUT THE BAND:
A taste of rock n’ roll
Dance Laury Dance was born in 2007 from the combined talents of Lap (drums), Max Lemire (vocals), Blake (guitar), Harry (bass) and Dagger Pat (guitar). Right from their very ...
Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party!
Dead Sands is a Brooklyn based band comprised of Daniel Wood (ex. ...Trail of Dead), Miyuki Furtado (ex. Rogers Sisters) and Jessie Nelson (ex. Head Automatica). Dead Sands pays homage to the Psychedelic rock of the late...
Developing their own sound and twist on modern hip hop, psychedelic and soul Electric Wire Hustle’s unique sound challenges
genre boundaries and preconceptions.The music of New Zealand’s EWH reaches forward while re...
Future Of The Left’s upcoming album, The Plot Against Common Sense, will be the group’s third full-length release. Teased with the Polymers Are Forever EP released in late 2011, this album will expand on the band’s...
“Whenever Boston’s delinquent nephew Worcester comes up in conversation, we can’t help but form the mental image of some sort of devastated city-scape straight out of an arcade beat-em-up, ala Final Fight or Street...
Hopsin has been described as the new face of West Coast hip hop, known for shocking lyrics that challenge both mainstream rap ideals and those that hype them. His debut album Gazing at the Moonlight was released in 2009 ...
Ishi formed in Dallas, Tx as a duo with JT Mudd & Brad Dale at the end of 2006. Their sound derived from their vision to unify the instrumentation of Folk music with the endless soundscapes of electronic production. They...
Jon Lindsay has been on a pretty incredible tear since emerging on the national indie rock scene in 2010. After going solo in 2009 from prominent roles in several well known bands (most notably Benji Hughes and The Young...
• When you think “singer songwriter,” fierce is not a word that often comes to mind. But there is something slightly fierce about the opening seconds of Lex Land’s new album “Were My Sweetheart To Go”. It’s...
Hmm, where should we start here? The part where Miniature Tigers stay up all night with Neon Indian, fine-tuning the laser-like synths of their new single, “Gold Skull?” Yeah, that sounds about right.
“I won...
With over half a century of hard roots-rabbling between them, Rosie Flores—the Rockabilly Filly, and Jon Langford—head Mekon, Waco Brother and conductor of the Chicago-based collective the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, bla...
Scorpion Child
These guys hail from the past and have been put in our time to save ROCK! They are true and honest creating insane inventions of modern music with all the right materials. Big drums, thunder heavy riff...
Sean Smith is a guitarist and composer from San Francisco. He currently leads a power trio playing over the top avant instrumental rock. Prog, doom and Krautrock are evenly fused. Live performances are jaw dropping......
Some bands form as an epiphany. A few musicians come together and suddenly, POW!!!, they're a band. Most good bands, though, are formed over time - shaped by the wind and the rain and, in Texas at least, the glaring su...
Tyler Bryant lives for music. Passionate about expressing himself and connecting with others through his songs and sounds, Tyler moved to Nashville from Honey Grove, TX when he was 17 to write songs and start a band. He...
The Whiskey Daredevils are one of the planet's finest country punkabilly bands. Since 2004 when former members of The Cowslingers decided to continue playing their mashed up country/rockabilly/americana/punk sound, the ...
The focal point of Yellow Ostrich's magnificent debut the mistress is Wisconsin native Alex Schaaf's voice. On the mistress it gets looped and layered, stretched and manipulated; it's stacked up several high and, most of...
The Zoltars are a rock band from Austin. Since starting in summer 2009, they have been included on Gerard Cosloy's (President of Matador Records) Casual Victim Pile II compilation of his favorite Austin bands, they have ...
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Having risen to fame with chart successes such as ‘Let The Bass Kick’ and ‘Aftershock,’ Chuckie’s career has continued to develop thus turning him into a global phenomenon who never fails to...
With three critically acclaimed albums, North American & European touring under his belt, and a feature on the latest album of UK Hip Hop band The Herbaliser, MC, Producer & DJ More Or Les is a Hip Hop triple threat. Bu...
FREDDIE STEADY KRC BIOGRAPHY
Austin Music Awards Hall-of-Famer Freddie Steady Krc comes by his name honestly. This singer / songwriter / guitarist / drummer / renaissance Texan has plied his musical wares around the wor...
Beach Fossils is a Brooklyn-based group, formed in early 2009 by Dustin Payseur. After signing to Captured Tracks and quickly pulling together a live band, they took off playing countless shows across the U.S. gathering ...
"Girls Against Boys" is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York. With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than...
Director(s): Austin Chick
Narrative Feature
87 min
Tycho is the music project of San Francisco artist and producer Scott Hansen. As Tycho, Hansen blends swirling melodies into vaguely triumphant arcs that crisscross between stuttering beats and vocal samples, creating ro...
"V/H/S" is a POV, found footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. In "V/H/S", a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in...
Director(s): Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence
Narrative Feature
115 min
Schaffer the Darklord (or STD) is a New York City-based rapper and comedian with material best-suited for brainy and/or drug-addled audiences. With manic energy, verbose vocabulary and cartoonishly commanding stage prese...
It's hard sometimes to grasp how quickly Josh Steele – Flux Pavilion – has risen to the position he's now in. Only three years ago, in the autumn of 2008, he heard dubstep played for the very first time at a freshers...
Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missin...
Director(s): Steven C. Miller
Narrative Feature
87 min
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-ol...
Director(s): Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Narrative Feature
93 min
Ain't No Love, a promising new Canadian group, is made up of two unique MCs (1990 & Beanz), one innovative producer (Love Thy Brother), and an eclectic singer (Saidah Conrad). Hailing from Toronto & Montreal, they have c...
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The Ortiz brother's Amplified Heat is a Rock and Roll power trio from Hell by way of Austin, Texas. Like their hot sauce, Amplified Heat is not for the faint of heart. They like it loud, fast and raw... no bullshit, just...
Mysterious Brooklyn-imprint Sacred Bones Records presents an evening of original and curated programming for a special SXSW film & music crossover event featuring music videos, short films, works in progress, and live mu...
Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party!
"Austin's Bodytronix (Eric Archer and Erich Ragsdale) have been hard at work for awhile without anyone outside of their fair city really knowing what these dudes were up to. Well, if their live mix "Night of the Arawans"...
Caveman was born in New York in January of 2010, when a group of friends decided it was time to put aside their boyhood ways and start being men. The sound they crafted in that large, dark room is equal parts chamber pop...
Dash Rip Rock is the legendary New Orleans-based rock band known for their unique roots music. SPIN says Dash Rip Rock is "undeniably the South's greatest rock band." The New York Times calls Dash Rip Rock "the kind of ...
Simple, El Tule is for those who love to dance, feel good and enjoy the positive expression of music.
For eight years El Tule (el TOO-lay) has been honing its unique sound combining influences of Cumbia, Merengue, Sal...
Like this Austin, TX-based band’s name, which brings to mind similar clashing concepts like Clockwork Orange or Artificial Intelligence, Electric Touch combines opposing forces into one giant, rock and roll whole.
F...
the Austin based band Frank Smith is prepping the release of their 3rd full length (Big Strike in Silver City, Nineteen) since relocating to Austin a few years back, and the band wanted to reach out to a handful of folks...
BIOGRAPHY 2012
On Friday the 13th April 2012, Frank Turner will take to the stage at Wembley’s vast Arena venue for the largest headline show of his life.
This career defining show will take place less than two ...
Huntsville, Alabama's G-Side are ushering in a new era of Southern rap. Two of the hardest-grinding MCs in the business, ST 2 Lettaz and Yung Clova witnessed immense struggle firsthand and have worked ceaselessly to carv...
Gemini Club, consisting of Dan Brunelle, Tom Gavin and Gordon Bramli, is a three-piece indie-electronic dance band hailing from Chicago, Illinois. Their unique live shows have been tearing up the scene for the last two ...
Guitar driven, pop-infused rock, inspired by the songs of the 1960s, this Austin-based foursome puts a modern twist on a classic sound. You'll find yourself singing along after the first listen, as each song strikes the...
It will not be long before audiences everywhere will be captivated by the distinctive, yet classic sound of Jane Ellen Bryant. Her music reflects the unique feel of her hometown, Austin, TX, but exhibits a delicate twist...
The west coast MC called Medaphoar is known lately by the first three letters of his name: M to the E to the D. Three short letters for a long-awaited, full-length album which arrived at long last in 2005.
Why the hol...
Motel Beds is a rock band from Dayton, Ohio.
They have been together in various permutations since the proto-blog days of 2003, when their first EP "Hasta Mañ̃ana" garnered positive feedback. A track from this EP, L...
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Throughout history, individuals have been playing with the delicate balance between polarities. Often, the combination of two opposites makes for a harmony previously unknown, a sum greater than its parts. Motopony is th...
Mr. Bleat is the character responsible for collecting the ideas of four colombian musicians and give them a voice in the format commonly known as rock quartet. Playing since 2007 He's interested in raw sounds, is an ally...
Rayon Beach was started in 2009 by Thomas Sutherland and Mike Naccarato. Our debut EP was released in 2010 on Hozac Records. The initial pressing sold out in 6 weeks. Rachel Scherr joined on keyboards and vocals in 2011....
More often than not, Royal Teeth tries something, and despite the odds or apparent roadblocks, it simply works. Recruit a lead vocalist who has never been in a band before? Check. Record a cover of a popular, mega-sellin...
sleepmakeswaves are an instrumental (post-)rock band from sydney, australia.
The band came together in late 2006 with a desire to write textured, dynamic and emotive songs combining delicate beauty with dramatic clima...
Smoke and Feathers began in Austin, TX with the meeting of Hunter Cahalan and Josh Terry in late 2007, both possessing unique singing and guitar techniques. Josh's heavy southern stylings and Hunter's eery psychedelic pu...
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Imagine what American rock and roll would sound like if the British Invasion never happened. Or, imagine what a punk rock band would sound like if it were 1933. That's The Sundresses. They've taken Rock...
“It’s a Way of Life.”
For Mike DeLay and Leilani Francisco, that’s exactly what Tic Tic Boom! has been for the last five years. The two founding members live together above their home studio in Los Angeles. Th...
Growing up in Nova Scotia loving rap above all, Jesse began with lighter fare in 1989, embraced hardcore in the early 90s, and found his calling in the independent rap revolution at century’s end. All the while, he wa...
An artist with intense drive and determination, Erin Barra is a young, emotive singer-songwriter and performer whose talent belies maturity far beyond her years.
Brilliantly blurring pop, soul, funk, electronic, rock ...
The debut full-length album by LIGHT ASYLUM has been a long time coming, but not without rabid anticipation. As their self-released In Tension EP circulated and resonated with new leagues of listeners worldwide, the repu...
In the late summer 1979, Joe "King" Carrasco formed a stripped-down four-piece combo to replace his Chicano big band, El Molino. Dubbed the Crowns, organist/accordionist Kris Cummings, bassist Brad Kizer, and drummer Mig...
Doctor P aka Shaun Brockhurst spent many of his teen years jamming with friends, drumming and playing guitar. The acquisition of a Yamaha keyboard and hours spent on Playstation's Music 2000 fueled his interest in the wo...
Mysterious Brooklyn-imprint Sacred Bones Records presents an evening of original and curated programming for a special SXSW film & music crossover event featuring music videos, short films, works in progress, and live mu...
Based in the bustling music town of Athens, GA, Betsy Kingston & the Crowns is Betsy Kingston, Joseph Dinnan, Bill, Baker, Rackley Davis, and a rotating cast of regional talent.
Kingston’s vocal styling is reminisce...
Chance Morgan and Matt Mooty are Burning Hotels. Their 2011 self-titled album recorded in Fort Worth, TX at Spaceway Studios, and mixed at Blackwatch Studios in Norman, OK, shines through with a Texas flare that fuses ne...
The 22-year-old Cities Aviv — aka Gavin Mays — might be the most original and is certainly one of the most significant musicians to emerge on the Memphis music scene in the past year.
The Memphis native and Overto...
The box? fiN think way outside it. In times of warfare and recession they sing of celebrating
life, remembering the good times, appreciating what you have and not letting the detritus of
modern life drag you down. In a...
The Frontier Brothers are either making Austin art rock in Brooklyn or Williamsburg indie in Texas; We're not really sure. Their untitled collection of imagination after-party anthems will be released in Summer 2012. Unt...
Like all families, Kopecky Family Band beats with the same heart and writes in the same blood. ‘The Family’ began creating music together in Nashville, Tennessee in the Fall of 2007. What began as late night talks ab...
Old friend, ‘tis been nigh on to ten or eleven years since Austin¹s Li¹l Cap¹n Travis shoved its splintered craft off on a treacherous audio odyssey of country-style portions. 2012 finds LCT once again hunkered dow...
Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes ...
MC Frontalot is the progenitor of nerdcore hip-hop and still its final boss. His fifth album, Solved, was released in August 2011. He stars in the feature documentary Nerdcore Rising, which debuted at SXSW Film in 2008.....
A child of hip-hop and a student of contemporary electronic music, Monolithium’s sound is the axiom where funk, techno and grime coalesce into concise, focused dancefloor pressure. His debut EP, Simon & G-Funk (via Err...
Mr. Pauer (Toto González) is a Latin Grammy® Nominated producer and re-mixer born in the Caribbean city of Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, based in Miami, FL for over 18 years.
Due to his long career as a DJ and produce...
Trying to pigeonhole the music of Austin's My Education is akin to trying to stuff a pigeon in a hole: the sound is calamitous, there's movement all around, the frenzied beating of wings against wall, and somewhere somet...
Nakia, known for his larger-than-life, soulful vocal performances and ability to connect with an audience, is a true Austin success story. Since his arrival at “The Live Music Capital of the World” in 2002, he has qu...
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To quell the myths and misconceptions surrounding the Austin, Texas two-piece Not in the Face is not an easy task, as their truth is often much stranger than their fiction…
The Men
Jonathan Terrell (vocals, guitar...
POLIÇA began as a collaboration between fellow Gayngs' members Channy Casselle and Ryan Olson in June of 2011. By July they had completed 11 songs, made the key additions of drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson,...
On their recent recordings "20,000 Ghosts" and "Wellwisher," The Rocketboys perfectly married themes of unity and brotherhood with rich, soaring rock, lifting the band to national critical acclaim. The band supported it...
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet Saint Motel has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly fun live shows. Mixing blistering pep with unique flair and ro...
The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...
Strong Arm Steady was formed in the shadows of the West Coast’s Death Row Records movement, which at one time, loomed large over much of the region’s talent. Many Los Angeles artists—themselves students and childre...
Wussy are a four-piece rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio fronted by ex-Ass Ponys frontman Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker. The two began performing together in 2001 as a result of Cleaver's stage fright when asked to perform...
“With the band’s catchy, emotive sound — equal parts dusty alt-country and lovelorn late ’90s alt-rock — we’re surprised debut EP track ‘Let Back’ isn’t as big a hit as ‘Pumped Up Kicks’.” –L.A....
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