Have you been reading our Screens blog, Picture in Picture? How about following us on Twitter? No? For shame. Here’s what you’ve missed: South by Southwest Film brings out the big guns (Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow); Alamo Slaughter gets an opening date; Heather Courtney wins the Independent Spirit’s Truer Than Fiction Award for Where Soldiers Come From and a swag bag with a $25,000 grant; the Austin Film Society‘s Director of Artist Services Bryan Poyser is stepping down in March and prepping a new movie; cassette culture doc Rewind This! trends big; and Byron Brown should be the new face of Doritos, but sadly, is not. Want more? Check us out at austinchronicle.com/pip and @ACScreens.

This article appears in January 20 • 2012.

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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...