Not to be hyperbolic, but this screening is an absolutely-must-seize opportunity to watch some of the planet’s best videos back to back to back to back, with barely a few seconds in between to catch your breath, soothe y…

Since their humble beginnings in New York City in 2001, Improv Everywhere has grown from a small gang of restless jokesters into an internationally recognized prank collective and a viral video-making machine. From the N…

It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood in a copyright infringement case. Fredrik i…

Shakespeare's classic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Joss Whedon's film, "Much Ado About Nothing". Shot in just 12 days (and using the original text), the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a d…

On their 1963 Christmas record, The Beatles give thanks to “Good Ol’ Freda!” in Liverpool, their devoted secretary and friend. History notes that The Beatles were together for 10 years, but Freda Kelly worked for them fo…

It’s morning in Mexico. Buck is feeding his 7 dogs. Trailed by the pack, he picks up photos & reveals his past. Buck was born female yet always knew he was male. Even his parents raised him as a boy until puberty. That’s…

The life story of one of the most influential and controversial film directors in the history of Hollywood, John Milius. From his childhood aspirations to join the military to his formative years at the USC Film School, …

In Indiana, where life revolves around high school basketball, what happens to a community when their beloved team can no longer win a single game? Years ago, Medora was a booming rural community with a thriving middle c…

Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenz…

In February 2012, the New York Knicks, mired in a disappointing season and out of desperation, looked to the end of their bench and found Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent from Harvard. On the verge of seeing his lifel…

Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…

An exclusive sneak peek of the first episode of "Bates Motel," the thrilling new series from A&E starring Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. The contemporary prequel to the genre defining 'Psycho' promises to give viewer…

In 1980 -- back when the machines seemed clumsy and we seemed clever -- an eccentric group of computer chess programmers gather at a hotel to discuss the state of artificial intelligence, and for a tournament pitting man…

Unique, uplifting and heartbreaking, "The Network" is the story of Afghanistan’s first independent television network – TOLO TV – and the family behind it. TOLO TV has grown to be Afghanistan’s largest and most successfu…

We’re rolling out the red carpet for this year’s design awards finalists. Come join us as we toast to the artists of SXSW’s Film Design Competition. Enjoy complimentary drinks, followed by a special screening of this yea…

We are excited to be presenting the best Title Sequences of the year! Opening with a informative conversation between Jay Bond and Ian Albinson. Jay Bond s an award-winning main titles designer and broadcast editor, an…

Spend 90 amazing minutes in the company of Academy Award-nominated animator and self-distribution pioneer Don Hertzfeldt, who has seamlessly combined his three renowned shorts — Everything Will Be OK (2006), I Am So Prou…

In 1998 Shawn Fanning, a teenage hacker and programmer, created the code that would become the basis for all peer-to-peer file sharing. In 1999, Fanning and his business partner, fellow teenager Sean Parker, launched the…

A brand new comedy from Working Title and the writer of "Borat" and "Bruno" that lifts the veil on the realities of the first year of marriage. Starting where other romantic comedies finish, "I Give It A Year" asks what …

Who doesn't love Halloween? All of Tony Phillips' (Tony Vespe) high school friends, apparently. It's senior year and they've now decided that they’re too cool for Halloween. When his older cousin (AJ Bowen) returns home …

Since their humble beginnings in New York City in 2001, Improv Everywhere has grown from a small gang of restless jokesters into an internationally recognized prank collective and a viral video-making machine. From the N…

Seventy highschool students agreed to be locked down for 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film. Come see the product of this madness screened at TBA for The Austin School of Film's annual Youth M.A.F.I.A. Progr…

An eleven year old boy uses the discarded objects he finds around the windswept seaside community he has just arrived at to make a kite. Despite strong winds and a dogged persistence he can’t make the kite fly. He befrie…

Kelly, a female entrepreneur, gives personal advice and insight into business and beauty. She finds motivation in her personal experiences and in her role model Mary Kay.…

An elderly couple seeks to make their relationship more adventurous. When they find an abandoned trailer the couple decides that breaking and entering will be the perfect beginning to an adventure. Upon making the abando…

After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that "Necronomica" will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the world. Borknarg hatches a plan to…

Indoor Directors: Simon Atkinson, Adam Townley An eleven year old boy, unable to fly his kite alone, befriends a peculiar girl who can not leave her caravan. Kelly Directors: Nathan Honnold, Alex Zhuravlov Kelly, a fema…

"Si Nos Dejan" is a love story flooded with good intentions and missed connections.…

A pig farmer tests his unemployed son’s resolve to join the family business.…

A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.…

The audition tape of an actor who goes to great lengths to get the part.…

After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan creates a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.…

An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for its problem child.…

Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a coup…

"#PostModem" is a comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a …

"Sequin Raze" - starring Anna Camp (Mad Men, True Blood), Ashley Williams and Frances Conroy(Six Feet Under) explores the twisted mental anguish of ‘Goldberg’, a jaded, once-feminist producer on a hit reality show, as sh…

The Audition Director: Celia Rowlson-Hall A young woman auditions for the role of "Clipboard Woman". Black Metal Director: Kat Candler After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan creat…

When Ron, a high powered hedge fund manager, finds out that his biggest investor may be pulling out of the fund, his world begins to collapse on him, as he juggles fatherhood, his ex-wife, and one very big secret.…

Not to be hyperbolic, but this screening is an absolutely-must-seize opportunity to watch some of the planet’s best videos back to back to back to back, with barely a few seconds in between to catch your breath, soothe y…

The Blue Umbrella Director: Saschka Unseld It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in th…

It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in the midst, two umbrellas—one blue, one not—f…

For sixteen years cicadas live underground. They emerge for one glorious night to live out their lives in hope of finding happiness and maybe... love. They gather for the grand cicada party at the castle, knowing that wh…

Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world. "The Event" is based on a poem by Tom Chivers and was commissioned by Random Acts for Channel 4 in the UK.…

Set in a crumbling black-and-white futuristic metropolis, void of creativity and color, the city is traversed by The Gold Sparrow and her nefarious side kick, The Ring Leader. Together they scour the gray-scale streets, …

Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.…

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community where he spent his youth to visit his sick mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in his life. In confused sad…

For more than 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate directly with the outside world. Until Now. These are the actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynic…

A man wakes up with a weird feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home. A goodbye/love letter to Florida.…

A journey through time & space, and the fight for existence. A dark premise contrasted with the divine imaginary creates a hypnotic ride of tone and emotion. Only "in-camera effects" were used to capture "Sci-Fly". The …

It's just another boring day in the the most boring job in the world. Even the robots doing the jobs are bored. They'll do anything to get out of it, even take one of those over sized 'You're leaving' cards around the fa…

It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood in a copyright infringement case. Fredrik i…

Flutter Director: Dara Bratt “Flutter” is a short observational documentary about an ordinary man obsessed with the extraordinary. I Kill Directors: David White, Paul Wedel The kindest slaughter: a short documentary abo…

"Flutter" shares the life of John Bedford, 70's, who has been collecting butterflies his whole life. Extending beyond the exotic and gorgeous butterflies, this is the reflective and meditative portrait of a lonely man se…

The kindest slaughter: a short documentary about one man's bloody job.…

A character portrait of a debt-ridden man with a violent past who auditions for a reality television show in pursuit of the American Dream.…

Writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a…

"KRS ONE: Brooklyn to the Bronx" introduces the life and teachings of the legendary emcee, KRS ONE. On the road to becoming a Hip Hop pioneer, "KRS ONE" tells the story of his life as a young man living homeless on the s…

Kendrick is a young, black calf roper grafting through the local, all-white rodeo circuits of the southern United States. Soft spoken and gentlemanly, roping is Kendrick’s singular focus, his ‘good addiction’. He practic…

Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into "SLOMO", trading his lab coat for a pair of roll…

Vladimir Putin is the most powerful man in the world.…

"After" is a film about contemporary life in Auschwitz. In an observation from dusk till dawn, it portrays the theatre of everyday life around the grim confines and captures the energies and activities of a world fascina…

A short-film about the events in our lives that we choose to remember and episodes we conveniently ignore. The documentarian uses a box of mementos left behind from a failed relationship to explore the feelings of nostal…

After Director: Lukasz Konopa ‘After’ is a film about contemporary life in Auschwitz. In an observation from dusk till dawn, it portrays the theatre of everyday life around the grim confines and captures the energies and…

For most people, sleep comes naturally, but for others, the night turns into an ongoing struggle to drift off into oblivion. This film explores what it’s like to be awake involuntarily and the feelings that accompany the…

"In Hanford" is artist Chris Mars's fantastic exploration of real incidents in Hanford, Washington, where the local environment was poisoned as a result of cold war era nuclear arms manufacture.…

A short documentary film contrasting the northern lights of Canada's north with the harsh landscapes and decaying manmade debris littered around Churchill Manitoba. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature an…

"The Other Dave" tells the story of David Manning, whose life was changed the day he was struck by lightning. Now fully disabled, the story centers on the changes in Dave after the lightning strike, primarily his new alt…

A community of tsunami survivors holds onto its existence through pictures recovered from the debris.…

Far away from any other urban centers, Itapuã is a small community with the characteristics and rituals of everyday life. The location, which sheltered 1,454 people and has more than 70 years of existence remains with on…

Formed in 1971 by three African-American brothers in Detroit, Michigan, Death is now widely acknowledged as being one of the first punk bands. After years of silence, Death’s moment finally arrived following unexpected d…

'Ugh, I am so bored,' says Jenny. 'Any ideas?' asks Martin. The four twenty-somethings look around their apartment for inspiration on a sunny afternoon. Suddenly Craig jumps up and screams, 'Holy cow, I've got a terrific…

Disturbed by a dream, a man awakens to realize his unconscious has called his self-awareness into question. When confronting himself, misfortune brings the temporal world into perspective.…

On its surface "Cats" is a short film about a master dog groomer trying to impart some grooming wisdom on his bored apprentice. It is when his apprentice's mind begins to wander, that the film transforms into something m…

It’s a typical night of babysitting little Lucas – tuck him in, turn on his nightlight, check the closet for the boogeyman. Helen convinces Lucas it’s safe to close his eyes and drift off to sleep, but little does she kn…

The Girl is a newly single dancer that is tasked to watch her best friend's house. After deciding the place needs a clean, she cranks up the tunes and decides to show off her nifty moves. And that's when things get rea…

Late Christmas Eve a young man is awoken by his beautiful wife urging him to open a gift. But the gift comes with a challenge that could cost him everything. The debut film of writer/director Owen Egerton features haunti…

"Hell No" is a short movie trailer that explores what would happen in horror movies if smart characters made quality logical decisions. Spoiler alert: everyone lives.…

The Apocalypse Director: Andrew Zuchero Four uninspired friends try to come up with a terrific idea of how to spend their Saturday afternoon. The Apocalypse. BOY FRIENDS Director: Hugo Vargas-Zesati A man disturbed by a…

Set during the summer of 1988 in suburban Ohio, Harold's family is crumbling. His angsty son wants nothing to do with him, his daughter detached from reality and his wife has fallen out of love with him. The only thing k…

Hannah is caught between her husband and a new lover. What began as an impulsive tryst has grown into something enduring and malignant. Her efforts to sever it grow increasingly desperate, then unspeakable. Picture a fox…

This is the story of a very very angry teddy bear.…

Situation living in Hong Kong, China nowadays. Here comes the end Our land is brutally torn apart by conglomerates Redevelopment swept across the city Their thriving business had left us homeless Is the world going to en…

Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenz…

Since their humble beginnings in New York City in 2001, Improv Everywhere has grown from a small gang of restless jokesters into an internationally recognized prank collective and a viral video-making machine. From the N…

Sitting on her bed in a run-down rest home, Dotty is desperate to send a text message to her daughter. When her morning cup of tea arrives, Dotty manages to rope someone else into her long battle with technology.…

Ellen is leaving because she can. Travel is the cancer of modern relationships. Ellen needs to find her sad-sack of a boyfriend, Hamish, a nice leaving gift to try and help the mutual breakup feel a bit better. When Ham…

"Mobile Homes" follows Ali, a young mother trapped in human trafficking. Constantly moving from city to city, she is transported with her 7-year-old son Alex. As she survives day to day, Alex explores mobile home sales-…

In the Weston’s 45-year marriage, John controlled his submissive wife, Sheila, until one day, she had finally had enough. After months of separation and in the heat of divorce, John has ignored all attempts to divide his…

Dotty Directors: Mick Andrews, Brett O'Gorman A stubborn old lady struggles to send a text message to her daughter. Ellen is Leaving Director: Michelle Savill On the eve of departing overseas, Ellen makes the fateful d…

A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.…

She wants to go. He wants her to stay. Neither gets exactly what they want.…

With a hurricane threatening to destroy her way of life, "When We Lived in Miami" is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. Stylistically similar to Seimetz's critical…

The life story of one of the most influential and controversial film directors in the history of Hollywood, John Milius. From his childhood aspirations to join the military to his formative years at the USC Film School, …

Jim and Dave are brothers. They haven't seen each other in years, but when their father unexpectedly dies, they're forced to travel down to Branson together to redeem their inheritance; the family's lake home. Upon arriv…

A vignette about Fort Worth Skater Adam Mosley who is on the rise to become one of the next big name skaters. This documentary takes a look into his daily life, and gets some insight to what he is about.…

A woman sings to her child as her village is attacked.…

A seamstress in a high school theatre company struggles through the run of a show, pushing through even as her life starts to collapse around her.…

Soda cans come to life, organize themselves into a human form, and go about their day.…

Charlie Hughes is on trial for murdering his father. Growing up in house full of violence can drive a boy to the edge. The question is, though, is Charlie Hughes guilty or innocent?…

Jessica Foster and Hunter Mills are two individuals who work the night shift together. On one fateful night, Hunter and Jessica decide to take a cigarette break. Hunter begins to question humanity because of the occurren…

Ashley and her friends decide it would be a good idea to sneak into their school's theater and hang out over night, but once Ashley's friends begin getting mercilessly slaughtered by a group of mysterious masked menaces,…

"Drop" is the story of a drowning victim's journey to understanding. The main character is led through a series of areas that all evoke some strong emotional connection. Throughout the story she is led by the element of …

A man on the run--but from what?…

One night, a robbery took place at a museum and someone got murdered. It's up to Detective Bones to solve this crime. He is accompanied by his partner, Jessie Styx. As he investigates the scene, Bones discovers clues tha…

When a man wakes up on his lawn and discovers he's 50 feet tall, he's terrified and confused. But when he keeps on growing with no end in sight, he realizes that his life will never be the same again.…

More than anything else in the world, Reese wants a gay best friend. She sets out to get one but her plan goes terribly awry.…

After waking up from a long coma, a young girl stumbles around in a post-apocalyptic hospital, finding clues that help her understand how it was recently abandoned. Where did everyone go? Are people still alive? Can she …

Not My Type is a short animated film about three examples of past exes' kisses, leaving the question of how do you find your 'type.'…

When an obsessed young woman and the object of her fixation finally meet face to face, the evening takes a disturbing turn.…

A toxic plant explosion releases a fume that does strange things to nearby high school students. Everyone's trying to get out alive.…

A young woman abandons her home for the man of her dreams, but does it with a bang.…

Two Men, One Briefcase.…

"Skin To Bone" is a visual representation of Linkin Park's song by the same name. The video was filmed in darkness and highlighted with special effects created by producers Brandon Torio and Taha Dawoodbhoy. The video re…

Adam Mosley - Who I Am Director: Jake Wangner Adam Mosley is an amateur Fort Worth skateboarder. He spends his days rolling across the pavement learning new tricks. Take a quick look into his daily life. Again Director:…

A little boy goes on a journey of a lifetime, or does he?…

A young woman finds a body lying half way under a row of hedges. There's something strange about it, though - and what does that zipper do?…

Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, "Artifact" gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they battle their label in a brutal lawsuit and record their album …

In 1998 Shawn Fanning, a teenage hacker and programmer, created the code that would become the basis for all peer-to-peer file sharing. In 1999, Fanning and his business partner, fellow teenager Sean Parker, launched the…