Sometimes, a location stops being a setting and starts being a character. You see this happen to New York City in the films of Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, and you see it happen to Los Angeles in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman, to give you just two examples. The nature of those cities can be seen and (metaphorically) smelled and felt in every frame of… Continue reading How SXSW 2013 Helped Define the "Austin Movie"
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Today is the final day of the 2013 South by SouthWest Film Conference and Festival and it comes to a close with the announcement of the audience awards for the 20th annual Austin film fest.
Earlier this week, Destin Daniel Crettons Short Term 12 won the Jury Award for Narrative Feature and it followed that up by also taking the Audience Award in the Narrative Feature category… Continue reading SXSW Film Festival Announces Audience Awards
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South by Southwest Film Festival Coverage
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Perri Nemiroff writes for Movies.com, but she also produced a short film screening at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival. Here she writes about her expectations before the screening, and will return later to tell us what happened after.
BEFORE
Our short film Child Eater plays to an adoring crowd, we get up and charm the audience further during our… Continue reading Before & After: What It's Like to Have a Movie Playing the SXSW Film Festival