Kick off SXSW Film right on Day One by getting insider tips, strategies and advice you can use to maximize your time at the film fest, straight from some of today’s most influential film pundits. Offering up a “sneak pre…

Beginning

Presenters

Anne Thompson, Dave Karger, Eugene Hernandez, Meredith Borders

Lena Dunham stars in the HBO series, GIRLS, which she created and serves as executive producer, writer, and director. Dunham won two Golden Globe Awards for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy…

Beginner

Presenters

Lena Dunham

ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…

Intermediate

Presenters

Diego Luna, Jonathan King, Logan Hill, Margaret Brown

The studios have slowly but surely abandoned movie development, finance and production. Their physical plant is no longer necessary and the last bastion of their control over business - the collective monopoly on distrib…

Intermediate

Presenters

Janet Brown, John Sloss, John Pierson, Ross Fremer, Ryan Werner

In a rapid-fire repartee, million-dollar crowdfunding comedian Adam Carolla and FundAnything founder, Bill Zanker, will detail how crowdfunding is disrupting the way movies are financed and produced. Adam will explain ho…

Intermediate

Presenters

Adam Carolla, Bill Zanker

Meet the Insiders offers an inside track with composers David Wingo, long time composer of David Gordon Green and Graham Reynolds, long time composer of Richard Linklater. This is an open forum to ask these insiders any…

Presenters

David Wingo, Graham Reynolds, Kat Candler

Join Belle & Sebastian lead singer and songwriter, Stuart Murdoch, as he discusses not just his music, but his feature directorial debut, "God Help the Girl," which will screen at SXSW Film. He'll explore how the coming-…

Presenters

Jason Cohen, Stuart Murdoch