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A SXSW Easter Egg
Melanie Haupt
Wed Mar 17, 1:35pm
At Monday afternoon's screening of Helena From the Wedding at the Alamo Lamar, the audience was treated to an unexpected bonus: Danny Strauss' satirical short film, "Always a Bride."
On Bomb Defusions and Boner Ghosts
Ashley Moreno
Tue Mar 16, 9:58pm
Some girls learn about womanhood with the help of health videos. As Kristin Wiig explained during the "How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of MacGruber" panel, women who learn from Will Forte get the help of a "courtesy pillow."
SXSW Film Awards Announced
Kimberley Jones
Tue Mar 16, 9:30pm
Tags: SXSW
Eugene Mirman hosted the SXSW Film Awards tonight. After the jump, find out who went home happy …
The Digital Divide
Richard Whittaker
Tue Mar 16, 4:41pm
Scary statistic for the technorati, as reported here in the Chronicle: 15% of Austin ISD high school students either have no computer or no Internet access at home. As this afternoon's Touring the Digital Divide panel proved, it's the same in New York and Vermont.
Double Entendres
Cindy Widner
Tue Mar 16, 3:30pm
Tim Blake Nelson and Edward Norton delighted a packed Alamo Drafthouse South Friday with the U.S. premiere of Leaves of Grass, which Nelson wrote and directed and which Norton co-produced and stars in. As twins.
If It's Too Loud, You're Not Lemmy
Marc Savlov
Tue Mar 16, 1:36pm
What's in a name? Lemmy, Greg Oliver and Wes Orshoski's portrait of Motorhead founder Lemmy Kilmister is one of the most thorough and entertaining rock and roll documentaries since Ondi Timoner's Dig! Like its subject, it's by turns, philosophical, brash, and thoroughly kickass.
SX Page by Page
Richard Whittaker
Mon Mar 15, 11:27pm
The fact that a panel like "Creating a Graphic Novel Hollywood Will Buy" is needed shows that there's still some great divide between two of the great visual media. But, as screenwriter-turned-comic writer Martin Shapiro proved, the relationship can be a fruitful one.
For the Love of the Game
Ashley Moreno
Mon Mar 15, 7:27pm
We tell children they can be anything they want if they work hard and want it bad enough. But it’s not true. In the documentary, Pelada, the four co-directors, Luke Boughen, Rebekah Fergusson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, and Ryan White, travel the world talking to amateur players, who will unlikely turn pro, about their passion for soccer.
Come Again?
Kimberley Jones
Mon Mar 15, 5:12pm
An hour and change into Elektra Luxx's premiere last night at the Paramount, projection issues put an abrupt end to the film. A do-over screening has been set tonight – but you'd best line up early.
Sign of the Times
Wells Dunbar
Mon Mar 15, 12:28pm
Big news: Snooki is coming to South by Southwest this year.
This breaking news was touted by New York Times media critic David Carr as some of the value real-time sites like Twitter can have in spreading info. But what if user-generated, unverified news streams became our only sources?
Austin: Latino Internet Capital of the World!
Belinda Acosta
Mon Mar 15, 12:29am
One of several Latino-themed panels in SXSWi had the title “Austin: Latino Internet Capital of the World,” and, by all indications, no one in the room thought it necessary to quibble with the bold title.
Critical Mass
Melanie Haupt
Mon Mar 15, 12:05am
Statesman food writer Addie Broyles and Miso Hungry blogger Jennie Chen facilitated a packed core conversation called “The Yelp Effect,” posing the question, “what happens when everyone is a restaurant critic?”
Duplass Brothers Get Their Paramount Premiere
Melanie Haupt
Sun Mar 14, 11:52pm
It started out as a sweet lovefest, the Duplass brothers taking the stage before their new film Cyrus unspooled to heartfelt applause and cheers. "We've been waiting for years to have one of our movies screen at the Paramount on Saturday night!" exclaimed Mark Duplass, to congratulatory cheers and applause.
SXSW Web Awards Announced
Kimberley Jones
Sun Mar 14, 11:06pm
Tags: SXSW
The SXSW Web Awards went down Sunday evening, emceed by Doug Benson and MC'ed by last year's SXSW Film breakout MC Frontalot (Nerdcore Rising).
And the envelopes, please …
Blood, Gore, And SXSW
Richard Whittaker
Sun Mar 14, 7:55pm
There was a simple way to introduce the film-makers on the SXSW Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts panel: By the name of their bloodiest movies.
Creating Something Joyful
James Renovitch
Sun Mar 14, 6:09pm
As if being one of the innovators of the god game back in the early Nineties wasn't enough, Peter Molyneux managed to help alter the course of gaming by revisiting the seemingly simple idea of the "human game." His Fable series is now the poster child for incorporating human choices and giving them bearing on your character's evolution.
10 Minutes of Comic Jumper
James Renovitch
Sun Mar 14, 4:40pm
CEO of local game developer Twisted Pixel – and recent Austin Chronicle cover story subject – Mike Wilford showed gameplay from its awaited release, Comic Jumper. At the ScreenBurn Arcade, he had to fight the techno coming from the nearby rave/art-creation tool booth, but managed to impress the small crowd gathered around the screen.
Beware the Shilldebeast, My Son
Richard Whittaker
Sun Mar 14, 1:05pm
A bad day for Suicide Girls at the "Selling Sub-Culture Without Selling Out Panel" at SXSW Interactive. The alt.porn website was held up as the prime example of selling out. And no, it wasn't about the money.
What's On Robert Rodriguez's Plate
Joe O'Connell
Sun Mar 14, 11:20am
Robert Rodriguez is busy at South By Southwest pimping Predators – the first film he is just producing and leaving the directing chores to Nimrod Antal – let slip his next project: Spy Kids 4. Rodriguez said it will have a new group of kids though some of the stars of the first three films may drop in.
Ass-Kicking For Breakfast
Richard Whittaker
Sun Mar 14, 4:10am
Kick-Ass kicked off the big name films opening at SXSW on Friday night, and the stars still managed to make it to the Convention Center for Saturday's first major panel, "The Kick-Ass Cast Can't See Through Walls But They Can Kick Your Ass."
Interact with Austin
Wells Dunbar
Sat Mar 13, 9:23pm
The City of Austin is looking to harness the power of SXSW Interactive in the redesign of the official city website. There's a meet and greet Sunday where representatives of redesign effort AustinGO are looking to chat you up about incorporating best practices into the site relaunch.
'Dance' Fever
Kimberley Jones
Sat Mar 13, 3:28pm
“It's just like running a 400, but it never ends."
That’s how director Mike Dolan described making Dance With the One back when the Chron visited the set during the film’s 2008 summer shoot. The end is in sight, though: Dance With the One premieres at SXSW this Monday.
SXQ&A: TMS Ruge
Richard Whittaker
Sat Mar 13, 2:19pm
Tags: SXSW
Social entrepreneur and Project Diaspora co-founder TMS Ruge is a SXSW Interactive veteran. He'll be back on Sunday to bust some misconceptions about technology in developing nations during his talk Africa 3.0: A Look at the Future of a Connected Africa.
Big Bag, Big Canvas
Kimberley Jones
Sat Mar 13, 11:30am
Tags: SXSW
Polish artist Leszek Zebrowski already has a relationship with Austin – he’s long designed the poster for the annual Austin Polish Film Festival. Now his local visibility just rocketed: You can currently see his work hanging over the shoulder of 20,000 festivalgoers.
SX Day One
Richard Whittaker
Sat Mar 13, 1:09am
As SXSW attendees bring their first day to an end, and ponder another week of quesadilla for breakfast and three panels before lunchtime, there's already been a lot of excitement.
