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.
The makeup date is tonight (3/15) at 11:45pm in the G-Tech Theater in the Austin Convention Center. That said, that venue is substantially smaller than the Paramount (about 800 seats smaller), so SXSW has cautioned “if you have an individual ticket and don’t get in, you WILL be refunded at the G-Tech Box Office, or you can go to the Paramount Box Office for a refund tomorrow.”
Reports of last night’s screening say it wasn’t entirely a bust, though – the audience seemed to dig director Sebastian Gutierrez‘s followup to last year’s SXSW entry Women in Trouble, and Gutierrez took the stage with his star-studded cast to kill time until festival planners had to concede defeat.
This article appears in March 12 • 2010.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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