SXSW

  • It’s No Secret: Linklater Channels ‘Welles’

    No SXSW Film Festival can do without Richard Linklater. The Austin-based filmmaker routinely appears at the fest each year, whether or not he has a movie in it. This time, the program technically contained no Linklater movie, but he managed to slip one in, anyway. A Monday 11 a.m. "secret screening" at Austin’s Paramount theater…

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    Eric Kohn

  • SXSW Winners: ‘45365,’ ‘That Evening Sun’

    Jury members for the SXSW film festival handed out awards to a number of small, below-the-radar movies during Tuesday night’s awards ceremony at the Austin Convention Center. With 133 features and 127 shorts, the program offered plenty of options. However, the only movie that landed a major award after a week of strong word of…

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    Eric Kohn

  • Zombies Get Interactive

    It’s literally impossible to enter the Austin Convention Center during SXSW and not notice somebody blogging, vlogging or otherwise engaged with a digital device. But the interactivity expands beyond documentation of the event itself to many of the projects looking for attention at it. At the trade show, a collaborative filmmaking project called "Lost Zombies"…

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    Eric Kohn