SXSW Film 07

March 9-17

Fri., March 9, 2007

Venues

Austin Convention Center (Cesar Chavez & Red River)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (409-B Colorado)

Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar (1120 S. Lamar)

Landmark's Dobie Theatre (2025 Guadalupe)

Paramount Theatre (713 Congress)

For the full schedule of films, Conference information, bus routes, and more, visit www.sxsw.com.

For more Chronicle coverage, see Special Screenings, as well as the Music issue and our daily editions of March 15-17 (which themselves will include that on Competition films in the Festival).

SXSW FILM

State Fair

Recognizing the pictures, but also the kinds of spirits who appreciate them: the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

Road Movies

Lisa McWilliams' Mobile Film School

This Month Only

From turtles to "The Next Tim Day"

Like Out of a Movie

The legend of Alejandro Gomez Monteverde

Before the Flood

In the struggle between local environmentalists and developers, Laura Dunn's documentary reminds us, Barton Springs was only the beginning

Property Value

Andrew Garrison on how Houston artists and inner-city neighbors rebuilt a community
Call-and-Response

Marcy Garriott on the intricate dance between documentarian and subject

Battle of the Jam Bands

Bob Ray and Werner Campbell's five-year rock & Roller Derby adventure

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

Looking More Closely When Others Look Away

On directors examining structure, storytelling, and how pictures can move us

Different Stages

The divergent paths of one disease, in life and on film
Michael & Us

Canadian filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine set out to celebrate a lion of the left. They ended up with something a little different.

The Few

A former Marine's unfiltered photography leads an American documentary crew into Darfur

Taking the 'Us' out of It

Michael Tucker hears the voices calling him back to the war in Iraq

... Vs Liger?

New Zealander Taika Waititi doesn't mind if you compare his charmed comedy to Napoleon Dynamite

In Stereoscope

Sarah Lipstate's songs – and shorts – of innocence and experiments

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