SXSW Film Festival 2011
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Mission Accomplished: Lorrel Manning and Michael Cuomo on Happy New Year
I first met writer/director K. Lorrel Manning and actor/producer Michael Cuomo at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, where we found ourselves the fish-out-of-water New Yorkers in a sea full of Southwest cinephiles. Their SXSW 2011 (sold out) hit Happy New Year is grounded in star Cuomo’s nuanced portrayal of a fictional outsider named Cole Lewis, a sergeant who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and now finds himself battling demons both mental and physical in the psych ward of a veterans hospital. I spoke with the two about their veterans outreach effort, Indiegogo versus Kickstarter, and the best […]
by Lauren Wissot on Jun 11, 2012 -
KATIE GALLOWAY AND KELLY DUANE DE LA VEGA’S “BETTER THIS WORLD”
Originally posted as part of our 2011 SXSW coverage, Better This World is nominated for Best Documentary. Screening Times: Saturday March 12th, 11:00am (Vimeo Theater), Monday March 14th, 1:45pm (Alamo Lamar B), Friday March 18th, 2:00pm (Paramount Theatre) Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane De La Vega profile the young political radicals David McKay and Bradley Crowder in Better This World. The pair plotted to disrupt the 2008 Republic National Convention, but found themselves charged with domestic terrorism. Filmmaker: How did you first hear of David McKay and Bradley Crowder? What drove you to make a film about them? De […]
by Brandon Harris on Oct 31, 2011 -
Tristan Patterson, Dragonslayer
The devastation that the “Great Recession” has wrecked on the California exurbs resonates through the backdrop of Tristan Patterson’s fascinating study of a peculiar California skating subculture in Dragonslayer. Focusing his representation mostly on the drug and alcohol addicted daredevil skater punk Josh Sandoval, nicknamed “Skreech,” Patterson’s doc searches the lives of this talented, troubled young man and his makeshift family of itinerant skaters with tremendous aesthetic grace and ideological empathy; finding great beauty in the suburban wasteland of derelict homes and pools that become their refuge from a largely unforgiving world. With a skating style all his own, Skreech launches […]
by Brandon Harris on Oct 26, 2011 -
SEAN COMBS GIVES SXSW FILMMAKER $1,000
Here’s a weird clip — Sean Combs stopped by the taping of Carson Daly’s interview with Bellflower director Evan Glodell at SXSW and wound up handing him $1,000. Both Alicia Van Couvering and I liked this movie at Sundance, so Diddy’s largesse is for a good cause.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 13, 2011 -
A WALK THROUGH THE 2011 SXSW TRADE SHOW
Here’s another SXSW iPod Touch video, this one featuring some of the vendors attending the 2011 SXSW Trade Show. (This year, the Austin festival mashed film, interactive and music into a single trade event.) A Fed-bashing indie film; a new social network for creators; indie film and a new location-based app; and “fun” fake IDs (for some, a necessity in Austin). Watch. Featured in this clip: the Techsmith suite of products; the New York Film Academy; MyCube; Locaii; Acts of Sharing; The Imaginary University; Spotzen; Fedora; Evri; Designica; Silver Circle.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 22, 2011 -
SXSW BLOG: “SOUND IT OUT” DIRECTOR JEANIE FINLAY, PART 2
Sell out crowds, nifty accents and Ipiddles I’m waiting to board my flight home to the U.K. It’s been an amazing week at SXSW and I am delighted the way my film SOUND IT OUT has been received. I imagined that I would send regular blog updates to Filmmaker but it’s ust not the kind of festival where there is a spare five minutes in the day. Each day we vowed to get bed early and have some decent sleep and each night we’ve ended up at the 24 hour Cafe Magnolia for late night snacking and putting the world […]
by Jeanie Finlay on Mar 22, 2011 -
SXSW BLOG: “BOB AND THE MONSTER” DIRECTOR KEIRDA BAHRUTH, PART 3
Too early: March 19th — Southwest Airlines back to Los Angeles. My husband and daughter are to my right (I’m an aisle girl). I’m almost too tired to blog. That’s a ridiculous statement, isn’t it? Too tired to blog? The word “blogging” hardly seems to infer any effort on its behalf. Blog. Okay, enough of that. Back to the point, SXSW, right? Right. It was amazing, in every sense of the word’s overuse. I loved it. The rest of the week I spent hanging out with other filmmakers and then musicians as they rolled into town. We screened the film […]
by Keirda Bahruth on Mar 21, 2011 -
“ATTACK THE BLOCK” AND MORE NEW SXSW AUDIENCE AWARDS
SXSW has announced three final awards for its 2011 edition. Here are the audience awards for its 24 Beats per Second, Lone Star States and Midnight sections. Austin, Texas – March 19, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced additional Audience Award-winners today from the Lone Star States, 24 Beats Per Second and Midnight categories. Audience Award results for all categories were certified by the accounting firm of Maxwell Locke & Ritter. For the 2011 SXSW Film Festival, 140 features, consisting of 66 World Premieres, 15 North American Premieres and 15 U.S. Premieres, were selected […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 19, 2011 -
A WALK THROUGH SXSW’S SCREENBURN ARCADE
Here’s another quick iPod touch SXSW video, this one with short interviews with a few people who had booths at the festival’s ScreenBurn Arcade. Games for the whole family, Mike Tyson, corporal punishment and more… Featured: Unlimited Justice; “Taking on Tyson” ; Mayfair Games; Wyld Stallyns Games; Renegade Kid; GameGround.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 17, 2011 -
SXSW BLOG: “YELLING TO THE SKY” PRODUCER BILLY MULLIGAN, PT. 2
The below post was written by Billy Mulligan, producer of the SXSW film, Yelling to the Sky. Six days of nonstop on-the-go hustle, with a few moments of pause for food coma recovery. That’s my SXSW in a nutshell. As a SXSW first-timer, I had heard countless times that it’s important to take the time to appreciate the Austin foodscape. After finally experiencing some of the culinary delights myself, it can’t be stressed enough that the Trailer Food culture that is ingrained into every fiber of the city is enough of a reason for any man, woman or child to […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Mar 17, 2011
