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Austin at SXSW 2013: All the Features (Part One)
The feature-film selections for the 2013 SXSW Film Festival were announced last week and boy, are there a lot of movies with Austin connections on the program -- so many that we had to split this...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: All the Features (Part Two)
Continued from earlier today, here are the rest of the SXSW 2013 films with Austin or Texas ties: documentaries and films that have already been hits at other festivals.Documentary Spotlight:An Unreal...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Chris Eska, 'The Retrieval'
Filmmaker Chris Eska's new feature The Retrieval will be premiering at SXSW next month. The movie's first screening is set for 1:45 pm on Monday, March 11 at Alamo Ritz, with encores on Tuesday and...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Bryan Poyser, 'The Bounceback'
Bryan Poyser isn't exactly a new face on the Austin film scene, but we realized that we hadn't yet interviewed him on this site (although he has been mentioned in a Holiday Favorites post)! Thankfully...
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SXSW 2013 Updates: Two Weeks and Counting
SXSW Film Festival and Conference kicks off two weeks from TODAY, on March 8. I can hardly believe it myself. Here are a few reminders and bits of news you might have missed ... plus one panel I'm sure...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Heather Kafka Times Five
Austin-based actress Heather Kafka shows up in features Pit Stop, The Bounceback, Loves Her Gun, When Angels Sing, and short Black Metal which are all screening at SXSW next month. Let's just say that...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Sean Gallagher, 'Good Night'
Sean Gallagher's full-length feature directing debut, Good Night, is premiering at SXSW on Monday, March 11 at the Rollins Theatre (screening info). This intimate drama depicts a dinner party in which...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Stuck On On's Repeat Success
Austin-based audio and visual post-production company Stuck On On worked on six films set to screen at SXSW 2013:Matthew McConaughey-fronted Mud (Debbie's review)Local filmmakers Richard Linklater's...
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AFS Announces SXSW 2013 ShortCase Winners
This year's SXSW Community Screening: Austin Film Society ShortCase will be held Sunday, March 10 at 4 pm in Boyd Vance Theater at the Carver Museum, and will feature short films by Central Texas...
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SXSW 2013 Guides: Drink Like an Austinite
Quite a bit has changed over the last year in the Austin drinking scene -- thankfully more changes for the good than the bad. Sadly, the downtown Lovejoy's Taproom and Brewery closed and the Austin...
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SXSW 2013 Guides: Tips for Locals with Wristbands or Tickets
The SXSW Film Pass, a longtime favorite for Austinites wanting to see fest movies, is no more. Instead, the second-tier theater access pass is now the SXSW Film Festival Wristband, mirroring the music...
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SXSW 2013 Guides: One Film Guide to Include Them All
Here it is: The SXSW Film Fest Omnibus Survival Guide. Slackerwood has been publishing SXSW insider's guides for years, but this year I decided it was everyone else's turn. This guide is essentially a...
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Slackerwood is going to be everywhere at SXSW Film this year. Here's where we'll post the master list of all our guides, features, interviews, reviews and whatever else we write (or photograph). We'll...
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SXSW 2013 Guide: Where Film Meets Interactive (and Music too)
Just when you think it can't get any bigger, SXSW offers even more amazing content beyond its cornerstones of Film, Interactive and Music conferences. Continuing from 2012, this year's festivities...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Trieste Kelly Dunn 'Loves Her Gun'
The latest film from Austin director Geoff Marslett, Loves Her Gun, has its world premiere at SXSW, screening tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:30 pm at Violet Crown (screening info). Actress Trieste Kelly...
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SXSW 2013 Preview: Selected Shorts
Don't forget the shorts programs at SXSW this year. There are a number of great shorts at the fest. Some are from filmmakers you haven't heard of yet -- some feature well-known faces. We were able to...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Sam Eidson, 'Zero Charisma' (and More)
Sam Eidson is a comedic savant who moved to Austin after attending Savannah College of Art & Design. In addition to a hilarious appearance in Emily Hagins' 2011 feature film My Sucky Teen Romance,...
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SXSW Review: Much Ado About Nothing
At a recent after-work happy hour, I mentioned that Joss Whedon's new movie is Much Ado About Nothing. My mostly twentysomething co-workers' reactions were entirely predictable: Joss Whedon?...
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SXSW 2013 Dispatch: A Packed House at 'Upstream Color'
My first film of SXSW 2013 was a 6:30 showing Friday night of Shane Carruth's movie Upstream Color at Stateside. It looked like only people with badges got in and the screening was packed. As the film...
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SXSW Dispatch: 'Unhung Hero' on Opening Night
My first day of SXSW 2013 began Friday afternoon with a preview of the Mondo Gallery exhibition of original Game of Thrones artwork (pictured at right) sponsored by HBO, which also included samples of...
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