Film Updates
SXSW Alumni News: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
SXSW Alumni News is a weekly update tracking the latest news from some of the many SXSW filmmakers, panelists, speakers and other alumni. Get the latest info on new projects, acquisitions, interviews, features and more, right here, every Tuesday.
Film Conference Session Spotlight: “Casting on a Budget: Get the Best & the Rightest"
Assembling the right pieces can make or break the success of a Film. Who do you turn to as a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer when trying to figure out the ins and outs of the casting process?
Paul Schnee of Barden / Schnee Casting, Inc. has organized a panel of pro's including actor Josh Pais (pictured) as moderator, Producer Carly Hugo and Agent Veronica Gabriel of UTA to help answer these questions in Casting on a Budget: Get the Best & the Rightest.
Film Conference Session Spotlight: “Coppola vs. Kittens: Pro Filmmaking's Online Future
In the new media landscape of online filmmaking, how do production companies continue to produce great work while still running a profitable operation?
In Coppola vs. Kittens: Pro Filmmmaking's Online Future, moderated by Adam Glickman of The Idealists (pictured), we flip the script and discuss how professional filmmakers can make the economics of online filmmaking work for them. From Vice to Vimeo, meet four folks cracking the code on how to deliver online films worth watching.
"LBF" Hits Screens Near You from Today!
Based on Cry Bloxsome's acclaimed novel "Living Between Fucks", Alex Munt's "pop-art film" LBF is finally coming to a screen near you. LBF "follows Paris based writer Goodchild (Toby Schmitz) as he returns to Australia for the funeral of his ex-girlfriend The Dead Girl (Gracie Otto) and steadily goes off the rails".
SXSW Alumni News: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
SXSW Alumni News is a weekly update tracking the latest news from some of the many SXSW filmmakers, panelists, speakers and other alumni. Get the latest info on new projects, acquisitions, interviews, features and more, right here, every Tuesday.
Film Conference Session Spotlight: “Bringing Sexy Back: Where’s the Line Today”
This panel knows good sex...in independent film that is. Independent films have long been known to push the boundaries on depictions of sexuality, but there are a lot of questions that go along with including provocative subject matter in your film: Where is the line in terms of what sexuality can be easily presented?
SXSW Films on Release - Friday, January 27, 2012
Welcome to SXSW Films on Release. Whether in theatres, on DVD, online, TV or anywhere else, catch up on great films from previous SXSW Film.
THEATRICAL
The Innkeepers
Spotlight Premieres, 2011
February 3
Kill List
SXFantastic, 2011
February 3
Humpday Highlights: Girls
As announced previously, Lena Dunham returns to SXSW with her latest project, the hotly anticipated Judd Apatow produced HBO series Girls.
SXSW will screen 3 episodes, as well as present a panel with cast and crew. Check out the trailer above, and remember to register for your badge today. Prices go up February 10, so snap yours up now.
SXSW Alumni News: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
SXSW Alumni News is a weekly update tracking the latest news from some of the many SXSW filmmakers, panelists, speakers and other alumni. Get the latest info on new projects, acquisitions, interviews, features and more, right here, every Tuesday.
Where Soldiers Come From - Last Chance to see in Austin!
Austinites, head to the Violet Crown Cinema tonight to see a special one-off screening of Heather Courtney's Where Soldiers Come From. The film won Best Editing award at SXSW 2011, and this is your last chance to see it on the big screen in Austin, with Heather Courtney in attendance. Tickets are likely to sell out fast, so head to the Violet Crown website now to snap yours up.
If you haven't already, pick up your SXSW badge, and see the next SXSW Film award winners first!
Image courtesy Quincy Hill Films
