Complete event listing for
SXSatellite: Alamo Slaughter
5701 W Slaughter Ln
Friday, March 9
*SXSW 2012 SXEncore screenings were determined by popular vote on Tugg.com. An aging party animal chases the now extinct glory days of his youth. Blowing lines, strip clubs, and pawing barely legal girls are all part of...
Director(s): Garth DonovanNarrative Feature
73 min
*SXSW 2012 SXEncore screenings were determined by popular vote on Tugg.com. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, computer game creator Richard Garriott becomes the first second-generation American astronaut as his $30 million t...
Director(s): Mike WoolfDocumentary Feature
83 min
Saturday, March 10
“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. SlingerDocumentary Feature
74 min
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...
Director(s): Bobcat GoldthwaitNarrative Feature
100 min
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follow three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a sto...
Director(s): Jacob KrupnickNarrative Feature
75 min
Sunday, March 11
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 ShapiroDocumentary Feature
77 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 SwirskyDocumentary Feature
96 min
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...
Director(s): Todd RohalNarrative Feature
85 min
Monday, March 12
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 MarsDocumentary Feature
73 min
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 MazurDocumentary Feature
89 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 MacdonaldDocumentary Feature
152 min
Tuesday, March 13
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 DuplassNarrative Feature
90 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 TrevorrowNarrative Feature
85 min
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 LevDocumentary Feature
82 min
Wednesday, March 14
"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 KnappenbergerDocumentary Feature
89 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 LaytonDocumentary Feature
95 min
"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-FlanaganDocumentary Feature
65 min
Thursday, March 15
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 OrlowskiDocumentary Feature
76 min
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 JarrettNarrative Feature
115 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 LettsDocumentary Feature
104 min
Friday, March 16
Zach and Marshall eat cereal.......
Director(s): Zach Anner, Marshall RimmerNarrative Short
7 min
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 ...
Director(s): Hannah FidellNarrative Short
12 min
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.......
Director(s): Angela ChengNarrative Short
3 min
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.......
Director(s): Kat CandlerNarrative Short
6 min
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. JohnstonNarrative Short
12 min
On a trip to reconnect with his estranged and recently engaged daughter, Phillip finds a sex tape of the little girl he used to know.......
Director(s): Russell O. BushNarrative Short
24 min
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 SilversteinNarrative Short
8 min
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 ...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
93 min
The true and historically accurate tale of one tumbleweed that did not tumble.......
Director(s): Jared VaravaNarrative Short
7 min
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 ...
Director(s): Matt NaylorNarrative Short
12 min
Lost and Sound is a moving creative documentary, made by a partially deaf filmmaker. It weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence, via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people as they try to ...
Director(s): Lindsey DrydenDocumentary Feature
76 min
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 CohenDocumentary Feature
72 min
Saturday, March 17
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 ZellnerNarrative Feature
83 min