The path to Oscars victory for Everything Everywhere All at Once began with a now-legendary screening at South by Southwest 2022. Now directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert aka Daniels return to Austin as keynote speakers for the 2024 festival in March.

South by Southwest 2024 is looking ahead to the future of AI, but it's also tackling one of the year's biggest controversies with the announcement that transgender influencer and actress Dylan Mulvaney will be one of the speakers, discussing how the extreme right tried to politicize a beer endorsement.

Artificial intelligence is the shadow looming over the creative industries, so it's no surprise that AI plays a major role in the first lineup of featured speakers for South by Southwest (March 8-16, 2024).

How about a flying car, is that what you want? Is it what you’ve been wanting for years now – thanks, The Jetsons; thanks, Bladerunner – but, nah, a world of flying cars never really seems to happen in any substantial, generally accessible way, does it?

Body? Doubled. Or, hell, why not tripled?

On a balmy Sunday afternoon at SXSW, Hans Schrei, one of the two men behind the Austin-based Wunderkeks cookie company, and Andrea Hernandez, the Honduras-based food-industry doyenne of Snaxshot fame, sat down to talk about how political identity is shaping the way we eat.

In September of 2013, a low budget sci-fi movie called Coherence premiered at Fantastic Fest. Now, nearly ten years later, that little film that could has a pool of dedicated fans.

Millions of people love true crime, and there are hundreds of podcasts about the subject. Ashley Flowers hosts one of the most popular, Crime Junkie, which she explained to a huge crowd at South by Southwest Sunday was a passion project that she grew into media company Audiochuck, which now produces several top-rated shows.

Welcome to Short and Sweet, our look at some of the short films and projects at South by Southwest 2023. Today we talk with UT Austin Assistant Professor Jiabao Li, creator of immersive XR project Once a Glacier, that places the viewer in a kayak with a young woman as she experiences the magic and fragility of a glacier.