In recent years, movie studios have targeted the horror genre in creating non-stop remakes, reboots and sequels/prequels whether horror fans like it or not and there is no end in sight. Did Hollywood run out of quality o...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Green, Daniel Farrands, Mark Ward, Scott Weinberg, KW Low
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.......
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 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.......
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
Mix and mingle with the aGLIFF Nonprofit Organization for happy hour with the cool kids. A must attend event for SXSW LGBTQI and straight ally communities! Discover opportunities for filmmakers and industry tastemakers t...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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......
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.......
Pull up a front row seat with Tiger and Cy, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team', as they scramble to preserve their place in "America's Parking Lot". When the Dallas Cowboys move to the first stadium built fo...
Director(s): Jonny Mars
Documentary Feature
73 min
"Amor Cronico" follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional lov...
Director(s): Jorge Perugorria
Narrative Feature
80 min
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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...
Forget about lengthy reviews that hold for opening night. Many of today’s most popular critics have emerged as 24/7 brands, tweeting instant reactions from the screening room as they simultaneously preside over debates...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex Iskold, Emily Nussbaum, Film Crit Hulk!, James Poniewozik, Linda Holmes
Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark ...
Director(s): Christoffer Boe
Narrative Feature
83 min
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.......
"Bijuka" (Scarecrow) tells the true story of Lalli, a young woman who is attempting to escape from an abusive arranged marriage. After she is forced to stand trial for her efforts to flee, Lalli is gang raped b...
Director(s): Ashtar Sayed
Narrative Feature
74 min
Nominated for Outstanding Debut at this year's BAFTAs, "Black Pond" tells the story of an ordinary family who are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langha...
Director(s): Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Narrative Feature
82 min
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most win...
Director(s): Katie Dellamaggiore
Documentary Feature
101 min
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.......
It's 2015 and over half of the devices in your home are connected to the Internet. On the drive home you consider taking a longer route, but when you ask for directions the GPS system reminds you that you need to get hom...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alison Moore, Gilles BianRosa, Jack Flanagan, Rhonda Lowry
FOX’s Bob's Burgers celebrates its upcoming second season with a live show featuring acts from cast members Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy.......
FOX’s Bob's Burgers celebrates its upcoming second season with a live show featuring acts from cast members Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy.......
"The Central Park Effect" reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around t...
Director(s): Jeffrey Kimball
Documentary Feature
60 min
Photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In "Chasing Ice", Balog deploys revolutionary time-...
Director(s): Jeff Orlowski
Documentary Feature
76 min
If you’ve never seen one person play 10 simultaneous games of chess — and you probably haven’t — here’s your chance. Brooklyn Castle’s Justus Williams — who last year, at age 12, became the youngest African...
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...
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.......
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...
This session will feature “Climbing Sacred Mountain”, a digital game based on the documentary film, “Daughters of Everest,” about the inspiring journey of the first Nepalese women’s mountain climbing expedition...
At a time when the country is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront of national attention. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana is poised to become...
Director(s): Rebecca Richman Cohen
Documentary Feature
72 min
The process of color correction can not only bring the film's overall look and production value to a higher level, but it also is a powerful storytelling tool to enhance the film you're trying to make. This workshop wil...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brandon Thomas, Daniel Stuyck, Joe Malina, Nick Smith
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, ...
Host Scott Aukerman (Mr. Show, Between Two Ferns) will tape an episode of his flagship Earwolf show that blends interviews, improv and inspired character bits.......
"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
As the creator of Family Guy and one of the co-creators of American Dad!, Seth MacFarlane has brought his boundary-pushing brand of humor to millions each week. Join Seth for a no-holds-barred discussion about his ground...
Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...
Director(s): Adam Sherman
Narrative Feature
95 min
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
Film-maker and journalist Gotham Chopra spends a year following his father and spiritual icon Deepak Chopra, separating the man from the myth with a raw honesty only a son can have. What starts as decoding of Deepak beco...
Director(s): Gotham Chopra
Documentary Feature
83 min
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
Imagine if you could weave the sum of all human knowledge seamlessly into your film or documentary. New technologies like HTML5 make this possible. Video, audio and animation no longer need to be in a "black box&quo...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brett Gaylor, Brian Chirls, Jigar Mehta, Ingrid Kopp
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
In 1994 Korean-American teenager, Hyun Jae, went to a bar in New Mexico where a handsome young man posing as a firefighter offered her a ride home. Then she was abducted and smuggled into Las Vegas where she was imprison...
Director(s): Megan Griffiths
Narrative Feature
98 min
Increasingly, filmmakers are becoming directly involved in the distribution and marketing of their own films. Veteran marketing strategist, Marc Schiller, and distribution specialist, Richard Abramowitz, will share their...
Filmmakers face challenges when raising money for a project. This panel will explore different aspects of the film grants world. Expert panelists from Cinereach, San Francisco Film Society, Chicken and Egg and more will ...
Beginner
Presenters
Dianne Debicella, Ellen Spiro, Judith Helfand, Leah Giblin, Tamara Horowitz
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...
Many filmmakers are driven by a desire to tell compelling stories in ways that impact public policies and laws. This often brings them to the doors of Congress, where major policies are created and changed. Policymakers ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Paul Stekler, Sonny Sinha, Will Jenkins, Jody Arlington
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
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
A comedy about two brothers, a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig...
Frank (CHARLIE HUNNAM) has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated -- usually on film -- by his brother Bruce (CHRIS O'DO...
Director(s): Jordan Roberts
Narrative Feature
87 min
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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
An intimate look into the corruption, lies and deceit that transformed a website started by a video of a foul-mouthed little girl into the largest most powerful media company the world has ever seen! With a special guest...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Steele, Dick Glover, Mike Farah, Patrick Starzan
Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they must hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but th...
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. "Girl Model" follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambi...
Director(s): A. Sabin, David Redmon
Documentary Feature
77 min
At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions...
Years ago, the question was simple: do you shoot your movie on film or video? But these days, with the incredible number of HD cameras now available, how should filmmakers decide which device is right for their project?...
Intermediate
Presenters
Clay Liford, James Laxton, Jody Lee Lipes, PJ Raval, David Lowery
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters follows the acclaimed photographer’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. His photographs are lik...
Director(s): Ben Shapiro
Documentary Feature
77 min
Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Octavio is sudden...
Director(s): Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Narrative Feature
99 min
Do you need to raise funds for your creative, cause, or entrepreneurial project? IndieGoGo has distributed millions of dollars worldwide to filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs, and charitable organizations raising money ...
Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing.
The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of ...
Director(s): Nina Conti
Documentary Feature
59 min
The film industry is a difficult business to navigate, and even more so when you are just starting out. There are a lot of questions to be answered and decisions to be made: NY? LA? Internship? Mailroom? Set work? Agency...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Hendricks, Justin Marks, Shay Weiner, Stephanie Hall, Jennifer Cochis
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...
THE HUNTER is the story of Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger’s genetic material...
Director(s): Daniel Nettheim
Narrative Feature
101 min
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...
A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfr...
Director(s): Brian Savelson
Narrative Feature
103 min
We are in the early stages of a massive paradigm shift that will forever change people's attitudes towards “consuming” film and TV. With shelves of books, video and music reincarnated in the Cloud, opportunities for ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dan Cryan, Jon Zepp, Shawn Bercuson, Tiffany Shlain, Susan Margolin
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
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
SXSW is all about convergence and there's no better event to celebrate this than at the official Interactive + Film Fusion Party hosted once again by Meebo. In true Austin style, this party will have you on your feet enj...
Sit in on a live-stream of SXSW Interactive's Keynote presentation "Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface" by Amber Case.
UX designer Amber Case will share insights from her research in cyborg anthr...
World War II did not end with complete defeat for the Nazis – some of them managed to utilize their secret technologies to flee to the dark side of the Moon.
There, deep within their swastika fortress, Schwarze Sonne,...
Director(s): Timo Vuorensola
Narrative Feature
93 min
Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development, The Hangover) returns to SXSW with a version of his workshop that film conference attendees have loved for years. By breaking down the performing process, he’s explored the practic...
After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, h...
Annie is a rebellious ten-year-old girl. She lives on the outskirts of town with her father Marvin, who, when not herding goats, mostly sleeps the day away. Virtually devoid of parental guidance, Annie is left to fend fo...
Director(s): David Zellner
Narrative Feature
83 min
King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her bes...
After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the ma...
Director(s): Adele Romanski
Narrative Feature
80 min
Set amid the noisy outskirts of some unnamed Mexican metropolis, "Los Chidos" tells the story of the Gonzales Family. Proprietors of a tire repair junkyard sandwiched between two busy freeways, the Gonzales cla...
Director(s): Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Narrative Feature
94 min
The definitive life story of Bob Marley - musician, revolutionary, legend - from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incre...
Director(s): Kevin Macdonald
Documentary Feature
152 min
Films are finding success abroad today - how do you make your film viable abroad, find the right distributor and capitalize on other markets? Find out here.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum b...
Beginner
Presenters
Andy Whittaker, Anna Higgs, Charlotte Mickie, Christine Davila, Hugues Barbier, Michael Hayden, Ryan Krivoshey, Selena Valyavkina
There are countless legal pitfalls inherent in the world of film and video. Meet one on one with legal specialists for invaluable information to save you from costly problems in the future.
Mentor session signup is open...
Beginner
Presenters
Charles Prince, Dan Satorius, David Smallman, Deena Kalai, George Rush, Steven Beer
Feeling adrift in the film world and need some valuable one-to-one general advice? This is the session for you; "Open Call" features industry insiders that run the gamut of the film spectrum. Whether you're se...
Beginner
Presenters
Carolyn Meili, Emily Rothschild, Jeanette Scott, Keith Leopard, Molly Thompson, Nick LoPiccolo, Steve Joyner
What secrets does the producer hold, from pre-production to distribution? Get questions answered and learn some of the ins and outs of what the role of producer means.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and...
Beginner
Presenters
Alicia Van Couvering, Andrew Rossi, Christy Pipkin, Dylan Wilcox, Karen Bernstein, Kyle Martin, Megan Gilbride
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the all-important packaging, marketing and selling of your film. Who you are selling to? How do you land that buyer? Who picks up the tab? FInd out here.
Mentor session signup is ope...
Beginner
Presenters
Bec Smith, Charlotte Mickie, Deborah McIntosh, Diana Holtzberg, Greg Rhem, John Sloss, Keri Safran
A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids when they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Suddenly, he experiences a time lapse. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself...
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
While the academics preach of the wonders and promise and “mechanics” of “transmedia” storytelling, there are pioneering producers on the ground really doing it. There are good days and bad. There is money and th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Seth HURST, Dina Benadon, Jon Chu, Lance Weiler, Tracy Fullerton
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 ...
Determined to honor his father’s scouting legacy and mount one last comeback for his dwindling troop, Assistant Scoutmaster Randy Stevens (Patton Oswalt) pays a visit to his business-minded brother Kirk (Johnny Knoxv...
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.......
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
Meet part of the team behind @MasterpiecePBS "Sherlock": Emmy-nominated creator Steven Moffat (of “Doctor Who” fame) and his wife, series producer Sue Vertue. Music, food, pictures, autographs, t-shirts, fu...
“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
Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink-slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail. Among the verdant hills of Appalachia, he encounters v...
Director(s): Martha Stephens
Narrative Feature
113 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 (...
Witness the launch of an innovative new participatory storytelling project created by Lance Weiler and co-produced with FUTURESTATES, entitled WISH FOR THE FUTURE - an immersive online environment where users are invited...
Intermediate
Presenters
Janine Saunders, Lance Weiler, Matthew Meschery, Karim Ahmad
Everyone knows that if we carry on acting as though we are the last people on this planet, this might just turn out to be the truth.
The Carbon Film Quote was initiated on the premise that you will manage what you meas...
Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking ...
Director(s): Gareth Huw Evans
Narrative Feature
100 min
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...
Nobody foresaw the dramatic impact the iPad would make on us as media consumers. However, it looks like the “giant ipod” is here to stay, and with it comes brand new never before methods and tools for story telling....
If you want your film to be found and relevant on the web, it needs to be processed by search engines. The problem is that search engines don't understand video (only text) so textual metadata must be provided such as ti...
wallFour presents Renga, their ground breaking feature-length show controlled entirely by the audience. With its complex gameplay and 90-minute running time, Renga delivers a compelling dramatic arc with sufficient scale...
Director(s): Adam Russell, John Sear
Narrative Feature
90 min
Storyworld communities are often treated as marketing and promotional tools, where content creators spend significant time, money and resources building a thriving and engaged fan base around their story, only to abandon...
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...
Horror and genre programming has been on the rise, with dramas including "American Horror Story" and "Walking Dead." FEARnet debuts its first original series "Holliston," a new type of horro...
As the battle between web and TV grows vicious, interactive and multi-platform videos are born. Platforms like XBOX Live and the impending Google TV will transform tv and ads into something we’ve never before experienc...
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 ...
Fame today is more than an obsession. Fame has become what millions of us follow, believe in and seemingly what we care about most - as well as a billion dollar-a-year industry. But what does our intense fascination with...
Director(s): Kevin Mazur
Documentary Feature
89 min
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") goes overboard. Told that he can do whateve...
Director(s): Caveh Zahedi
Documentary Feature
108 min
An examination of the changing face of feature film production in the realm of the non scripted, improvised feature film. Acclaimed director Barry Jenkins moderates a panel discussion with Filmmaker Amy Seimetz, Editor N...
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Seimetz, Benjamin Kasulke, Nat Sanders, Barry Jenkins
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
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
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
"Starlet" explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway), and 85 year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her...
"Sun Don't Shine" is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audle...
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...
Based on actual events, this film takes you on the journey of a teenage girl trying to escape her abusive mother and in the process finds herself joining the forgotten “street kids” living in the shadows of Portland....
Director(s): York Shackleton
Narrative Feature
92 min
Nine estranged friends are reunited after their larger then life friend unexpectedly dies. The friends who haven't seen each other in years are forced to stay at the estate of their deceased friend for the weekend. There...
Director(s): Corey Grant
Narrative Feature
101 min
FACES OF AUSTIN is a short film exhibition showcasing the work of Austin filmmakers and their works that reflect the many diverse faces, voices, and experiences that make up Austin’s unique identity. Faces of Austin i...
After the tragic death of a newly arrived Ex-pat, ESL kindergarten teachers Simon and Darin, steal the corpse in order to perform the final rites for the fallen stranger. Their quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a...
Director(s): Mark Jarrett
Narrative Feature
115 min
"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
Don't miss one of the most electrifying parties at SXSW celebrating Tom Hanks' Electric City, presented by Yahoo! Special musical guests include White Denim, Blaqstarr and internationally acclaimed DJ and music producer ...
"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
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
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
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
Learn the power of the pitch in The Pitching Palace. Whether you are an indie filmmaker who needs to pitch his idea to investors or a screenwriter who wants to sell their script to Hollywood or a documentary maker tryin...
"when you find me" tells the story of two sisters whose childhood bond is tested by a tragedy they are too young to understand. Alternating between past and present, "when you find me" is an emotional...
Director(s): Bryce Dallas Howard
Narrative Feature
40 min
Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-real...
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
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...
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
Required listening for any comedy fan, this no-holds-barred show goes deep behind the scenes, presenting in-depth interviews with the industry’s most innovative performers.......
