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Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 70:00:00Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, I asked my friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become historic before it had even taken place. In this documentary, a global canvas unfolds: in St. Louis and Austin, idealistic...

With 3D cinema on the uptick again, and probably for good, you need to know how it works. From production, through post, distribution and exhibition, this panel gives you the overview on how you too can integrate Stereoscopic tools and pipelines on your next film.

Cult comics legend Gilbert Shelton created characters like Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and has sold over 40 million comic books in 15 languages. He was art director of Austin's legendary psych venue Vulcan Gas Company, host to artists like Janis Joplin. He is currently involved in an animated feature adaptation of...

Academy Award-winning Argentine composer, solo artist and producer Gustavo Santaolalla has scored films as diverse as Babel, Brokeback Mountain and Amores Perros, and has produced acclaimed albums for the likes of Cafe Tacuba and The Kronos Quartet. Santaolalla's iconic band Bajofondo, meanwhile, draws from an eclectic sonic palette, gaining an army...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 95:00:00'A Different Path' follows a sidewalk activist Senior, a Critical Mass trumpeter, city Kayak-er, and others, as they struggle to make their way through the modern automobile-centric urban environment. Each character uses ingenuity and humor to try and solve their modern mobility dilemma. The film is...

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondThrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in 25 years, Levon HelmÕs Grammy nomination and growing audiences force him to face the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel...

Screening Category: Special EventsZel is a fortune teller. She lives and works in an old house at the edge of the woods. The house is crowded with ghosts that have been there for as long as she can remember, including a priest, a bride, a mute child, some washed up vaudvillians...

Screening Category: MidnightersRunning Time: 90:00:00Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin,...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 105:00:00Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration tomillions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America - the essence of religion, the dangers of unbridled government power and the double standards of society - with the fearless style and passion...

This interactive panel will explore the dynamics of a film's release process. Taking a hypothetical approach, the session will investigate each step, from development through exhibition, with insight provided by key industry figures.

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 89:00:00AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE provides an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Director Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated with Gray on GrayÕs Anatomy (1996), has sifted through rare and revealing footage to construct...

Screening Category: Animated ShortsAn assortment of stories told using a mix of traditional animation, computer-generated effects, stop-motion, and everything in-between. The winner of our grand jury award in this category is eligible for an 2011 Academy Award nomination for best animated short.

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 23:00:00Director:Miro RemoProducer: Miro RemoScreenwriter: Miro RemoCinematography: Jaris ValkoProduction Company: V MUSales Agent: Peter Bada

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 85:00:00For Ron Hogan, life is fineÉnot great, not good, justÉfine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream heÕs harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron HoganÕs well-ordered life....

We all have two brains: one in our head and one in our pocket. At least one is getting smarter every day. How can we augment the squishy one? Learn how context-aware mobile devices connecting to semantic web services can give you ESP and untold powers.

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 83:00:00Is 'The Man' controlling the vertical, the horizontal and the channel youÕll be on?In a privatized American Internet, is big business 'Big Brother' or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand?With the simple act of swapping...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 83:01:00Based on the novel 'Life is a Strange Place' by Frank Turner Hollon, BARRY MUNDAY follows a wannabe, happy-hour ladies man (Patrick Wilson), who wakes up in the hospital having lost his testes in a tragic trumpet assault. To make matters worse, he soon learns he's...

Digital Planet, the BBC's top technology programme, presents an interactive radio show recorded live in front of a SXSW audience, with hosts Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.Two opposing quiz teams, picked from top-name speakers at the conference, will compete to answer questions on current and future tech trends. From the radical...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 82:00:00Bear Nation is an exploration of a sub-culture that exists within the gay rainbow. The documentary is presented in the format of show and tell. Through conversations with subjects, experts, bear-lebrites and admirers, the piece will attempt to shine a light on this fresh and vibrant...

Video blogging isn't new but the technology has changed. More videos are being uploaded and watched daily online, increasing the chance that your video may be lost in the real-time web. We'll discuss new technologies to use video to tell your story, capture an audience and build online communities.

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 77:30:00BEIJING TAXI is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays Beijing undergoing a profound transformational arch. Through a humanistic lens, the intimate lives of three taxi drivers connect a morphing city confronted with modern issues and changing values. With diverse imagery combined with a contemporary score...

Technology and the internet have the potential to change the world, to address serious issues. But its not happening. Why not? Because some people don't understand and are holding us back. But who? This session is a blamestorm - an opportunity to call out the people and organizations, the technology providers...

Explosions, Pyro, Snow, Rain, Smoke, Fire, Bullet Hits and Stunts add visual sizzle to movies, TV, Commercials, music videos and live events. Learn how live effects can put your project over-the-top. Experience how easily and affordably you can put these proven attention grabbers to work for you, your film, and your...

How do you convert a classic, iconic brand into an interactive experience using next-generation technologies? Using examples from National Geographic and Barnes & Noble, this session will explore how to celebrate 21st century innovations without compromising historic brands.

One of the hopeful revenue sources for many internet startups is "ad dollars". How come they don't usually show up? Turns out that what you think brands want from the internet is not what they want. We will share some tips and insights learned from working with nearly 100 brands in...

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 81:00:00Adam Buckley finds himself having to rob a convenience store on the last night of pledging a college fraternity. But when the initiationritual goes horribly wrong, and every subsequent move proves disastrous, Adam must find it within himself to take a stand to save a friendÕs...

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 81:00:00Camp Victory, Afghanistan is a verité documentary that tells the story of several U.S. National Guardsmen stationed in Herat, Afghanistan and the Afghan officers assigned as their mentees. Together theyÕve been tasked with building the 207th Corps of the nascent Afghan National Army into an institution...

Screening Category: MidnightersRunning Time: 82:44:00They do EXACTLY what you think they do! A Canuxploitation classic, Ivan ReitmanÕs Cannibal Girls is being resurrected for another bloody go-round by filmswelike! Second City TV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star in this Canadian horror spoof as a couple on a romantic holiday who...

How can you efficiently utilize the various funding options available to fit you production schedule? From grants to contributions, pre-sales to investment, what makes for effective fundraising -- and how can you make a living along the way?

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 95:00:00Sheltered Ivy League Freshman Aaron Milton (17) is delivered to college by his hapless father and controlling mother who has decided her son's academic future will be in an elite engineering program run by the geeky Prof. Van Auken. When Aaron suggests he might add in...

This workshop takes a film title sequence to pieces and explores the different pieces of the process that brought it to the big screen, from conception to realization.

How does a cinematographer extract killer visuals from little or no script? What about live, uncontrolled locations? Free-roaming actors with little regard for "hitting their light"? This workshop explores the unpredictable, unique challenges of shooting improvised cinema.

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesSnakebit is a 60-minute documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio that he co-founded deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama. Mockbee was a celebrated architect, artist and educator who instilled his passion and philosophy in...

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesSnakebit is a 60-minute documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio that he co-founded deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama. Mockbee was a celebrated architect, artist and educator who instilled his passion and philosophy in...

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesSnakebit is a 60-minute documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio that he co-founded deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama. Mockbee was a celebrated architect, artist and educator who instilled his passion and philosophy in...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 90:00After making a mess of his life in Chicago, Doug returns home to rainy Portland, Oregon to live with his more stable and responsible sister, Gail. Unsure of what to do next, Doug spends his days sleeping until noon, and rereading old detective novels, while Gail...

In this fast paced, audience driven session, our panel will guide you through an unpredictable romp covering 60 digital predictions that will affect us all in 2010. What's next for social networks, augmented reality, mobile, digital out of home advertising, gaming and more. We'll even leave time for questions.

A reading by the author of Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. This book brings together the worlds of technical communication and social media. It shows how technical communicators can effectively use social media, and describes why quality technical content is essential to a successful social media strategy.

Screening Category: MidnightersRunning Time: 87:00:00Reverend Cotton Marcus is a fourth generation evangelical minister, and a man who thought he'd seen it all. As a well-known practitioner of exorcism, he has drawn many faithful believers to his work. Only he's not one of them. The Reverend hires a film crew to reveal...

CouchDB is a leader among post-relational databases. The authors of the O'Reilly book will show you why CouchDB is so exciting for web developers, read from the book, and talk about the writing process.

Graphic novels are red hot in Hollywood now. With its combination of words and visuals in one attractive package, a comic book can be a great sales tool when pitching your project to studios. In this class, industry professionals will teach you how to make a graphic novel that will attract...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 92:56:00Comedian Joey's act is drawing interest from people in high places until he tells one little gag about an old school pal, who just happens to be in the audience and things begin to unravel.Director:Justin MolotnikovCast: Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields,...

Community-focused culture is changing relationships between companies and customers and how they work together. Customers/users are becoming community members, a more active role beneficial to everyone involved.We'll discuss evolving customer service, integration into company culture, adoption curve, different challenges depending on business/community type, and balancing service with selling.

Screening Category: HeadlinersRunning Time: 92:00:00With JohnÕs social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcee finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life Ð her son. Written and directed by Jay & Mark...

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 83:00:00Nate, a skateboard-riding, small-time pot dealer, wants out of Texas. Out of his family home-- broken and haunted by the tragic death of his mother. Out from sharing a roof with his father-- a legendary drug dealer, who is stewed in whiskey and grief. Out from...

You don't need to be an expert wacom-jockey or drafting guru to learn the tools necessary to storyboard your dream project. This class will teach the essentials of storyboarding and film composition as pre-visualization tools.

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 88:00:00Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin is the rogue scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy. Considered one of the great chemists of the 20th century, Sasha's vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. By...

You've spent hours, weeks, or even years creating your film (or music or game), so don't sign away all your rights without understanding your contract. This workshop will walk through a typical distribution contract, explaining key concepts and terms common to traditional and new media deals. Learn some simple ways to...

Screening Category: Documentary ShortsUnfiltered slices of life, from across the documentary spectrum.Director:Unfiltered slices of life, from across the documentary spectrum.

Although it might be an accepted style to walk around with one's low pants exposing their briefs, the same is not true when it comes to planning for your production. Whether it's lack of understanding, or just poor pre-planning¦that's NEVER in style. This informal, yet interactive discussion will clearly detail what...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 94Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at this yearÕs Cannes Film Festival, Yorgos LanthimosÕ Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parentsÕ isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children...

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 113:00:00Judith is a teacher going through a crisis. She canÕt get pregnant, and itÕs causing a rift in her life. On an orbital space platform, a crew picks up a strange object during a routine mission. It appears to be a living seed of some sort....

The best editors work like sculptors to craft their footage into the most effective film possible. Learn how editors are able to wring magic from a huge range of source material, how you can work with them, or simply to hone your own editing skills and become one of the best....

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsElektra Luxx (Carla Gugino), last seen finding out she was pregnant in last year's 'Women In Trouble", is trying to make a living teaching a sex class for housewives in a community center. But her day is about to get very complicated when a flight attendant (Marley Shelton)...

Engage is the new book by Brian Solis that will debut at SXSW. Representing the 3rd book on New Media and its impact on society, culture and communication. Engage will help anyone not only understand the changes in the media landscape but also how to lead it. Brian Solis will be...

Screening Category: MidnightersDirector:Gaspar NoCast: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse KuhnScreenwriter: Gaspar No

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 80:00:00David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear, a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving...

Screening Category: Experimental ShortsA diverse collection of films ranging from the visually stimulating to the intellectually challenging.

Finding an audience has become a necessary skill in the committed filmmaker's arsenal. With carefully selected of real-world examples, this panel will look at how filmmakers have successfully cultivated an audience for their work -- people who will spread the word, show up for screenings, and buy the DVD or digital...

Creating a festival strategy for your film is arguably the most important set of decisions you will make to ensure the success of launching your hard work onto the world stage. The world premiere of your film is one of the most important leveraging tools you have to negotiate a successful...

New media (internet, mobile, and other wired/wireless technology) presents exciting distribution opportunities for independent works. But we know that 'digital dimes', the revenue from new media, have not yet replaced 'analog dollars', the revenue from (shrinking) DVD sales. This panel explores how independent producers will finance their works in light of...

In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to meet representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Independent Television Service. Come hear about funding opportunities for your documentary film, funding priorities, the review process, and tips for a successful application.

A strong title sequence can yield some of a film's most memorable images, allowing its themes to linger long after the lights go up. This presentation will explore the process of creating such sequences, using case studies from experiences with both studio and independent projects.

What does every indie filmmaker consistently screw up? Not the script, the budget, the schedule or the marketing; it's the Legal Stuff! Meet the Five Fatals, so you can avoid them in the future.

Why do studios still rely on the star power of 'floating heads' to sell their film product? Discover the value of a simple, iconic, original poster campaign. With limited stills available to the average indie or documentary, it can mean the difference between success and failure. Find out how less can...

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 89:00:00For Once In My Life takes a journey with the members of the Spirit of Goodwill. This unique assembly of musicians, all with a wide range of mental and physical challenges share the common factors of friendship and a dream to make music. The band of...

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesFor The Sake Of The Song: The Story of Anderson Fair is the story of one of TexasÕ and AmericaÕs unsung cultural treasures and the significant role it has played in preserving an American musical tradition. For forty years, HoustonÕs legendary folk and acoustic music venue, Anderson...

Over the past twenty years, technology has morphed the computer into a TV. Now, with the emergence of Internet-connected TVs, widgets, and access to free content sites like Hulu, is the TV becoming a computer? This session will examine the key technological and business issues that are shaking up the traditional...

Screening Category: HeadlinersDirector:Aaron SchneiderCast: Bill Murray, Robert DuvallScreenwriter: Chris Provenzano & C. Gaby Mitchell

The Guilds: they're a major aspect of the mainstream film business, and if you're serious about it, there's information that you need to know. Meet representatives of Directors Guild of America (DGA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) as they investigate the different services they offer...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesDirector:Zippi Brand Frank

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 50:00:00Greenlit chronicles the efforts of the indie film "The River Why" starring Zach Gilford as the filmmakers attempt to "go green." Film producer Miranda Bailey decides to follow the process and learn more about why that is necessary, how much it costs and what going "green"...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 102:37:00Set in modern day Britain, HARRY BROWN follows one manÕs journey through a chaotic world where teenage violence runs rampant. As a modest, law abiding citizen, Brown lives alone. His only companion is his best friend Leonard. When Leonard is killed, Brown reaches his breaking point....

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 89:00:00Having recently experienced a spectacular career failure, the last thing playwright Alex Javal (Lee Tergesen) wants to do is host a weekend long New YearÕs Eve party for his successful friends at a small cabin in the mountains. Yet that is what he is on the...

A new breed of maps is revealing breakthroughs in our understanding of biology, neuroscience, ecology and the physical world. We can now map not just physical geographies, but also genomes, neural pathways, emotions, social networks and ideas. These new maps reveal how society will change over the next twenty years.

Screening Category: SX FantasticRunning Time: 122:00:00AkiraÕs older brother has gone missing 2 years ago and he could never go of his brotherÕs disappearance. Out of the blue a beautiful woman approaches him and hands him his brotherÕs ID card. He and his group of friends are lured onto Higanjima where blood-sucking...

Screening Category: SX GlobalDirector:Katarina CizekProducer: Gerry Flahive Production Company: NFB

Markets are conversations: something the $8 billion online recruitment industry has forgotten. Learn how KODA.us hurdles the disconnect and monetizes hiring transactions by creating an intelligent and relevant forum for emerging talent and organizations to talk. Online recruitment: meet Web 2.0, in an environment that fosters authentic conversation.

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 80:00:00'A 90-year-old love story told through the collective voice of 70 ladies at different stages of their lives'HIS & HERS is a creative documentary that combines observation and imagination to illustrate a universal love story. The film explores womanÕs relationship with man by visiting moments from...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 105:00:00HOOD TO COAST examines the varied and comic reasons that we push ourselves beyond our comfort zones and test our physical and mental limitations. The annual Hood To Coast Relay is the world's largest relay race. Each year participants cover 197 grueling miles as a relay...

Government has been slow to adopt social media. Ignorance, fear of the unknown and negative comments are the primary reasons. Two government communicators who have experience in the SM trenches will discuss how to persuade government agencies to get with the program (it's easier and less scary than they think).

Make your film sound as good as it looks, and learn the pitfalls and solutions of production/location audio. Expert advice is provided by 2 seasoned pros: a Hollywood sound supervisor, Indie filmmaker and author, and a sound designer/mixer and author with extensive experience in the Indie and Documentary worlds.

Learn from our panel of Casting Directors and Industry Professionals how to cast your Indie or New Media production using tools that are right at your fingertips. From free services to pay services learn which of the casting sites is right for you, and your budget.

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 85:00:00When the American flag is folded at a memorial service,each fold is said to represent a virtue: liberty, unity, justice, perseverance, hardiness, valor, purity, innocence, sacrifice, honor, independence and truth. These are the things soldiers are said to fight for.Then they come home.

Lots of media in various formats sitting on shelves? No clear solution on what to do with it or how? Two crucial challenges facing content owners today are preserving the copyrighted assets they already own and then finding ways to extract profits from them. This workshop will review various hands-on approaches...

For today's online audience, consuming Internet video is a full contact sport, with the initial viewing experience acting as a gateway to broader social interactions. Many brand marketers have attempted to tap into this new class of consumer behavior with hopes of seeing their ads š„²go viral' and pick up millions...

In addition to all things Interactive, SXSW also hosts a giant film conference and festival. Learn how to make meaningful connections with all the independent film & new media professionals in town for the event

Screening Category: Special EventsRunning Time: 45:00Through the power of IMAX¨ 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASAÕs history. The film will offer...

The panel will examine the increased trend in film writers to accentuate their reviews (both positive and negative) in order to either draw more attention to themselves or to curry favor with the studios instead of finding film's place in modern and historical context.

Filmmakers, videobloggers, podcasters, pirate & low-power radio jocks and public access TV producers are all creating content in your local community, but they often don't collaborate or even talk to each other, despite using the same tools and sometimes even seeking the same audiences. A 15 year-old videoblogger and a 50...

Traditionally, international diplomacy has been left to high-level officials and conducted behind closed doors. Today, the rise of new and social media has effectively crowdsourced information that was once only available to elites. How has this shift affected the way in which diplomacy is conducted? Will this change international relations?

The intersection of mobile devices and entertainment goes beyond the ingestion of audio and video, and potential DRM challenges. This panel will explore how mobile devices have the self-awareness, connectivity and horse power to determine where you are, your activity and what content relates to you and how it's presented.

This session will take you through the ins and outs of the specification, development, submission, approval, pricing, and marketing of an iPhone application. Learn from the experiences of Austin development company Bearded Pony about everything from researching the market for your app to dealing with the Apple.

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 59:50:00Everyday some 20,000 people in Chittagong, a small port city of southern Bangladesh, risk their lives for 2$US. They dismantle retired old ships from all over the world. An average of 20 workers die in Chittagong every year. Despite the harsh working environment full of contaminants...

Is technology the great equalizer or is said meme disguising another truth? This panel will explore said question and reflect on the experience, perspective and vision of the panelists and the community who comes willing to grapple with the question and its relevance in our current digital world.

We'll have a short riff on the history of the Six-Word Memoir phenom and read a few of our favorite six-worders from our new book, "IT ALL CHANGED IN AN INSTANT: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure." Then we'll ask anyone in the audience to come up and offer...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesFeature documentary film on artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who died at the age of 27. He is often considered the greatest painter in the 2nd half of the 20th century and the greatest African American painter. His short life and great body of work has made him an iconic...

Jeffrey Tambor returns to SXSW with his popular Acting Workshop, where he explores the practical and philosophical approaches that lead to a great performance. He will rehearse and refine a scene with actors to break down the performance process. This workshop is intended for those interested in bridging the gap between...

Screening Category: MidnightersRunning Time: 70:10:00Jimmy Tupper is a loser, a tramp, a go-nowhere-do-nothing-type of guy. Until one night he sees something...something no one else has seen before. Did he witness a century-old urban legend come to life? Or was it merely a drunken hallucination? Well Jimmy is determined to find out.

There's never been a more challenging-yet exciting-time to be a journalist. Journalism Next (due out Nov. 10), a guidebook for digital reporting and publishing, explains how to use the latest software, tools, and concepts, empowering journalists to harness technology and take control of their futures in journalism.

Screening Category: HeadlinersDirector:Matthew VaughnCast: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chlo' Moretz, Nicolas CageScreenwriter: Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 87:00:00Every year in China the same dramatic ritual takes place: in the factory towns of the south, millions of migrant factory workers fight for space on overcrowded trains, trying to return home for the Spring Festival. Last Train Home follows a couple who have lived this...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRock roadie and failed musician, Le Donk (Considine) is a f@&k up. HeÕs lost his girlfriend (Olivia Colman) and his life has turned to shit. So Donk sets out to make rap prodigy Scor-zay-zee (playing himself) a star and turn his life around (with a little help from...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 104:30:00When Ivy League professor Bill Kincaid receives news his estranged twin brother, Brady (both played by Edward Norton), has been murdered, he travels back home to Oklahoma to find that his brotherÕs death is greatly exaggerated, and he's soon caught up in the dangerous, unpredictable drug...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresWill, a 35-year-old Philadelphia advertising exec, heads to Lebanon, PA to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his newly pregnant 17-year-old second cousin. As CJ struggles with what she will do next, Will feels responsible for someone else for the first time...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 120:00"Lemmy" follows the enduring icon of hard rock from his Hollywood bedroom to stages across Europe, revealing a complex man hellbent on living by his own rules. Including appearances by such admirers as Metallica, Dave Grohl and Ozzy Osbourne, the intimate portrait proves that Lemmy is...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsLes Signes Vitaux (Vital Signs) follows Simone who suddenly finds herself back in Quebec City following her Grand-mother's death. She has no idea her student existence is about to be scuttledÉ by the discovery of life itself. A switch is mysteriously flicked, and she decides to embark on...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 99:00:00This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by the virtual world Second Life. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars. The film is foremost an intimate,character-based drama about people who look to...

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 52:00:00Welcome to the biggest brothel in Europe, a clear blue eleven-story house in the middle of Cologne, Germany. Around 200 women from all over the world work here. If you ask them why, they will tell you itÕs the way itÕs always been.

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 93:00Down-and-out Rudy and his successful younger brother Paul form two sides of a love triangle completed by Rudy's ex-wife Diana. When Paul and Diana head to the mountains for a secret weekend of passionate sex, they don't know that a desperately jealous Rudy has followed them...

Screening Category: Headliners

Much of the best music and film is independent. Crowd and open sourced content and IP has changed the way audiences interact with artists and inventors. The independent community creates a superior content at lower costs, with more diversity and faster speed to market. Yet, most often, we find ourselves at...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 83:00A new space race is born between NASA and the ESA when Charlie Brownsville, Hank Morrison, and Dr. Casey Cook compete against an artificially intelligent robot to find out what's up there on the red planet. 'Mars' follows these three astronauts on the first manned mission...

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 83:00:00A documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends...

Festivals and markets are as vital as ever, in today's filmmaking scene. Learn what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - when it comes to festival submissions, festival attendance, and beyond. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come,...

Festivals and markets are as vital as ever, in today's filmmaking scene. Learn what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - when it comes to festival submissions, festival attendance, and beyond. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come,...

Get some one-on-one face time with people who can decide if a film makes it to a theater or your local video store. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin on February 26th. Please stay tuned...

Details, details. From casting, to planning, to more planning. Come talk with industry veterans who've been through it before, and learn from their mistakes.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin on February 26th. Please stay tuned...

Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin on February 26th. Please stay tuned for more information.Registrants who signed up online must...

Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin on February 26th. Please stay tuned for more information.Registrants who signed up online must...

There are countless legal pitfalls inherent in the world of film and video. Meet one on one with legal specialists for invaluable information to save you from costly problems in the future.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup...

Agents and Managers are a necessary part of the food chain in filmmaking from pre-production through distribution and release. What do they do exactly? How can they serve you? Talk to several industry professionals one-on-one.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served...

As a filmmaker, the press can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Learn how to make nice. Or, if you're an aspiring journalist, learn how to make a living.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will...

What secrets does the producer hold, from pre-production to distribution? Learn some of the ways to perfect the relationship between "producer" and "production."Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin on February 26th. Please stay tuned for...

What secrets does the producer hold, from pre-production to distribution? Learn some of the ways to perfect the relationship between "producer" and "production."Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin on February 26th. Please stay tuned for...

Do you need a publicist? Maybe so, and maybe no. Come get some hands-on information about the modern role of the PR person, and how that impacts filmmakers today. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders at a first-come, first-served basis. Online signup will begin...

Every film starts as an idea. Getting that idea onto the page can present a range of unanticipated challenges for the uninitiated. Meet with accomplished writers who can offer insight into how to realize a project of your own.Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holders...

Screening Category: HeadlinersDirector:Jean-Pierre JeunetScreenwriter: Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant

For Government to be truly transparent it has to be easily accessible and compelling. We will talk about current standards and discuss the current state of the tech. We will have examples of who is implementing it well/poorly. And we hand out grades to different Governmental entities and technologists.

Screening Category: Midnight ShortsBite-sized bits for all of your sex, gore, and hilarity needs.

The proliferation of mobile applications and the mobile web has many talking about the mobile platform as the next great media channel. The relative egalitarianism of the Apple App Store has in many ways flattened the advantage that traditional media channels (broadcasters, cable, national/global web brands) have in reaching consumers. Come...

There's lots of talk about creating engaging experiences for consumers on their mobile phones... but what's the reality? Hear some of the industry's top players as they hash out what's hot with mobile technology, what needs to be changed, and what the future holds.

Screening Category: SX FantasticRunning Time: 97:00:00Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system.A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America.Soon after new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE.Today, the...

Screening Category: HeadlinersRunning Time: 120:00:00Nuclear physicist, marijuana connoisseur, school teacher, money launderer, gentleman, fugitive and spyÉRaconteur, travel agent, writer, philosopher of science and supposed 20th century gay iconÉRock Music tour promoter, public speaker, board game appreciator and the biggest dope smuggler on the planet. MR NICE.From: Kenfig, South Wales, 1945. To:...

Screening Category: Music VideosA range of classic, innovative, and stylish work showcasing the scope of music video culture.

Screening Category: Narrative Shorts 1A selection of original, well-crafted films that take advantage of the short form and exemplify distinctive and genuine storytelling. The winner of our grand jury award in this category is eligible for an 2011 Academy Award nomination for best narrative short. Director:Various

Screening Category: Narrative Shorts 2A selection of original, well-crafted films that take advantage of the short form and exemplify distinctive and genuine storytelling. The winner of our grand jury award in this category is eligible for an 2011 Academy Award nomination for best narrative short. Director:Various

Screening Category: Narrative Shorts 3A selection of original, well-crafted films that take advantage of the short form and exemplify distinctive and genuine storytelling. The winner of our grand jury award in this category is eligible for an 2011 Academy Award nomination for best narrative short. Director:Various

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 80:30:00On Valentine's Day 1993, 17-year-old Bethel High School basketball star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Virginia, with several classmates. It was supposed to be an ordinary evening, but it became a night that defined Iverson's young life. A quarrel soon erupted into a brawl, pitting...

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondDirector:Bahman GhobadiCast: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed BehdadScreenwriter: Roxana SaberiCinematography: Turaj AslaniEditor: Haydeh Safiyari

Every respectable film festival these days has a panel talking about online film distribution and increasingly these panels end up in disputes between websites promoting their services and film distributors frustrated at their online revenues. At the same time everyone seems to agree that digital distribution is the future. So what's...

So you've got a pretty face... now what? A panel of four well-established female videobloggers talk shop. What does it take to survive in the blogosphere when most of the other content creators around you are men? Network horror stories, new media triumphs and everything in-between will be discussed.

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 55:00:00NY Export: Opus Jazz is a scripted adaptation of a 1958 "ballet in sneakers" by Jerome Robbins, a companion piece to his legendary West Side Story, that tells an abstract tale of disaffected urban youth. Shot on location all over New York City on anamorphic 35mm,...

Screening Category: SX GlobalDirector:Stefanie Brockhaus & Andy WolffCast: Lucky Nxele, Bongani Nxele, Elsie NxeleProducer: Stefanie Brockhaus & Andy WolffScreenwriter: Andy Wolff & Stefanie BrockhausCinematography: Andy Wolff & Stefanie BrockhausEditor: Andy Wolff, Stefanie Brockhaus, Ulrike Tortora>Music:...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 53:00:00On the evening of Sept. 7, 1996, Mike Tyson, the WBC heavyweight champion, attempted to take Bruce SeldonÕs WBA title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. At this point in his career, TysonÕs fights had become a cultural phenomenon, where the hype of the professional...

Screening Category: SX FantasticRunning Time: 93:00:00Mary and her son Fergal live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or something. When they move to yet another new home, Fergal finds himself caught between the affections of his beautiful and feisty neighbour and his fiercely protective mother who will stop at...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 107:00:00A starkly poignant series of events after a local miner's death forces family, strangers, and company officials to deal with loss and an ambiguous future. When MosesÕ brother dies, he drives cross-country only to spend his weekend wandering the town he tried to forget before visiting...

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 90:00:00Away from professional stadiums, bright lights, and manicured fields, thereÕs another side of soccer. On alleys, side streets, and concrete courts, people play in improvised games. Every country has a different word for it. In the United States, we call it pick-up soccer. Brazil, the word...

Nutshell: Digital Beyond's panel from last year...Part 2.A much needed follow up discussion from same angles plus 1 addition: companies and how they deal with users deaths.

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 59:00:00Director:Karel aludProducer: Ji ' Kone n

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 72:30:00Phillip The Fossil follows an aging party animal chasing the now extinct glory days of his youth. Chuckling along as the carefree town jester, Phillip has become completely isolated in the dead end rut he so comfortably dug. The chance to pull himself out comes when...

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 87:00:00Director:Roberto Hernndez & Geoffrey SmithProducer: Martha SosaProduction Company: Abogados con cmara

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 91:00:00A young man dies of a heroin overdose in an abandoned house in Baltimore. On the eve of his funeral, family and friends gather to commemorate his life. Their shared memories paint a portrait of a community hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty, city living,...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 102:00:00Erica (Amanda Fuller) spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin. Emotionally withdrawn, sleeping with multiple men is just what she doesÉ until she meets the older and mysterious Nate (Noah Taylor), who claims to have an 'honorable discharge' from Iraq. Despite his air...

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 85:00:00Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema.Travelling through the heartland of America, Diamond looks at how the myth of 'the Injun' has influenced the world's understanding 'and...

The films-for-a-cause genre is rapidly gaining traction as non-profits and cause-driven organizations turn to new media to tell their stories. Panelists will provide tips, tricks, resources and advice to filmmakers, non-profits, novices and grassroots organizations looking to spread their message with film and video.

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondRunning Time: 115:00:00Packed with evocative photos, rare audio recordings, stirring film appearances and TV performances, REJOICE AND SHOUT covers the 200 year musical history of African-American Christianity. Culled from hundreds of hours of music REJOICE AND SHOUT features the crme de la crme of Gospel music.

Remix, mashup, compilation, clip job, footage art: it's what doc filmmakers and online video artists do'from 102 Minutes that Changed America to Moral Kombat to Los Angeles Plays Itself to Buffy v. Edward. But how do they make money, get distribution and stay legal? Learn here!

REWORK, the new book by 37signals, will be released March 9, 2010 - right in time for SXSW. We'd like to do a book signing at the conference. REWORK is 37signals' "cookbook" for starting, building, and growing (or not growing) a company.

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresMAN ON A MISSION follows gaming millionaire Richard Garriott as he pioneers private space travel in his quest to become the first second-generation astronaut. The film shows how he made his fortune and then spends it -$30 millionÐ to buy a ticket to the ISS onboard a Russian...

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondEVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY is a David Byrne documentary that resists classification as a true concert film by blending riveting onstage performances with intimate details of the creative collaboration that makes the music happen. Shot with multiple cameras over several concerts during their Fall...

Hoaxes, rumors, and misleading stories thrive in a real-timemulti-sourced online environment. How do you suss out newsy signalsfrom uninformed, promotional, or ill-intentioned noise? Learn the bestways to cast a critical eye on your media consumption and how toquickly recognize and share only the authentic.

Where does creativity factor into the documentary filmmaking process? A purist would say that documentary filmmakers should be objective recorders of reality, but filmmakers have decisions to make before, during and after shooting. Indeed, increasingly we are seeing "script" credits on documentaries. If documentaries are to remain relevant in film culture,...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 94:00:00Have you ever wondered how a sketch was chosen for Saturday Night Live? Or why some actors are in more sketches than others? With John Malcovich hosting the episode and unprecedented access to the behind the scenes action, watch as Franco takes an observational approach in...

Brand equity has historically been the method to evaluate the performance and worth of a brand. Does the measure need to evolve? Consumers live in a network world, where individuals, tribes, and experts, are all connecting with one another. Brands need to be connected to and intimate with these networks. We...

Gender and Race opportunities are two recurring themes in technology. Are we part of the problem, or part of the solution? This panel is about moving beyond the usual "we're oppressed" quagmire discussion and into real, workable solutions, starting with ourselves as individuals to effect change in tech and social media....

Screening Category: SX FantasticRunning Time: 110:00:00Director:Srdjan SpasojevicCast: Sergei Trifunovic, Srdjan Todorovic, Katarina Zutic, Ana Sakic

Content is the king, right? Maybe not. Content was the king in the 500 years-long literate-mass-media era initiated by Gutenberg's printing press. But it seems the king was deposed on SWSX 2008 and most people didn't notice it yet.Evanescent experiences and participative crowds are claiming back the power they once had...

There's more out there for shorts than just YouTube, despite apparently limited sales and distribution avenues. Learn to make the most of festivals, the red flags that might keep you out, how to get away with breaking the rules, and what to do with that opus afterwards.

There are over 300 official U.S. federal government twitter accounts. This panel will examine how government can make effective use of twitter and other social media channels to communicate in real time and how these tools are reshaping the communication strategy of government agencies.

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 94:03'It's simple, this job: stick to the rules, tell them everything, leave and never come back.'DAVIS and BENNETT are a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen in the business of cleaning out skeletons from closets. Together they travel across Britain, wandering in and out of other people's...

After four years of blood, sweat and tears, sleepless nights, blunders and triumphs, Southwest Airline's social media efforts have emerged as a light-house for the Company's communication. Find out how they knocked traditional PR and Marketing strategy on its ass to revolutionize the company's voice.

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 93:00:00Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven feature-length film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the hard times always seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web...

Film music drives audience emotions, and individual scenes can be defined by a particular song or music cue. Essential as it is, film music is often under budgeted and misunderstood. Hosted by BMI, this roundtable discussion will explore effective tactics for finding a film's sound as well as the practical realities...

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondRunning Time: 85:00:00Songwriter Stephin Merritt is known as "the Cole Porter of his generation" for his memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings. Shot over a period of 10 years, 'Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields' explores his friendship with his longtime bandmate...

"Eagleman is a true original. Read Sum and be amazed. Reread it and be reamazed." - Time Magazine Sum is a work of literary fiction composed of forty mutually exclusive stories. Each story offers a different reason for our existence and the meaning of life and death. These are not serious...

Learn how to green your productions, leave a smaller footprint on an ever-more fragile planet, and by going green actually save money!

Screening Category: SXGlobal ShortsA showcase for cutting-edge documentary shorts from around the world.

Synthetic Interview is a unique technology that allows an individual to have a conversation with a character or persona as if that person were present in real-time. The goal is creating immersive experiences, allowing guests to interact cinematically with a digital character from either the past, the present or the future.Synthetic...

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondRunning Time: 80:00:00When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother's home in Rochester to study Islam at a Pakistani madrassa. It was his first act of rebellion against his abusive, white-supremacist father. Years later, Mike rebelled once more by penning a Muslim Punk manifesto called...

Screening Category: Texas High School ShortsA preview of the next filmmaking generation, as Texas High Schoolers present shorts of 5 minutes or less.

Screening Category: Texas ShortsAn offshoot of our regular narrative shorts program, composed of work shot in, about, or somehow relating to the Lone Star state.

From 2006-2008, Cathy Erway embarked on a Walden-esque mission to not eat out, in the city that rarely eats in. Her blog, Not Eating Out in New York soon became a compendium of easy, original recipes, cooking-together tips and events, and sustainable foodism that attracted the attention of publishers. She will...

Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences are no longer sitting still at conferences like SXSW - instead they're using Twitter and social media to create a backchannel and start their own conversations while the presenter is talking. Is this a good thing? Or a does it spell the end of presentations?...

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 89:00:00The Canal Street Madam is a feature length documentary portrait of Jeanette Maier, a former New Orleans madam. Shot over six years, this verita film chronicles Jeanette and her family after her release from prison in 2004 up until her 50th birthday, on and off-probation, pre...

Create your own show. Be your own Web channel. Live. Anywhere. Anytime. Learn how portable live production tools can make you the next Internet sensation. Set up a production studio, anywhere, in minutes. Instant streaming,multiple cameras, virtual sets and professional graphics. Learn the same techniques used by Tom Green, Leo Laporte,...

I spent more than four years, and explored five continents, seeking the answers. Beginning in a Denmark cow pasture, I roamed from Estonia to Australia, Israel to England, Montenegro to Brazil, California to Conshohocken, Pa. trying to locate the pathways out of chaos. Along the way, I contrived what I call...

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 59:00:00The love between the American burlesque stripper Teri Lee Geary (aka Kitten DeVille) and her punk rock singer husband Shawn Geary is strong but rather complicated. They live in their own time bubble, hers from the 1950's and his from the 1980's. It applies to their...

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 52:00:00This movie tracks the history of a little pill that popped on to the market ten years ago, and turned the world upside down. These tiny blue diamonds are also known as Viagra. Nosy and armed with a healthy dose of humor, the director discovers a...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 77:00:00THE FREEBIE, directed by and starring Katie Aselton, is a romantic drama about a contented, yet sexually frustrated couples' experiment to allow each other 'one night off'. Darren (Dax Shepard) and Annie (Aselton) have an enviable relationship built on love trust and communication - they still...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 152:34Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesDirector:Dagur KriCast: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Isild Le BescoProducer: Skuli Fr. Malmquist & Thor S. SigurjonssonScreenwriter: Dagur KriCinematography: Rasmus Videbaek DFFEditor: Andri Steinn Gudmundsson>Music: Slowblow

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsBill, a one-time poet, attempts to run a successful vegetarian foodstand, despite pressure to sell something easier--hot dogs. Bill hires Donnie, a brazen straight-talker, to help promote the business and deliver food. Complications with the business jeopardize budding friendships and Bill's faith in humanity.Director:Paul...

The Insider's Guide to Independent Film Packaging In A Troubled Economy will provide an overview of how independent films are currently being developed, packaged, produced, financed and distributed in a down market. We'll discuss current trends and clever ways to raise money, attach talent, and avoid legal pitfalls.

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 73:25:00The Living Room of the Nation opens a portrait-like view into six Finnish living rooms. The film is a story of changes, loneliness, responsibilities and the unavoidable passing of time.The main characters are common Finnish people in different phases of life. Each of them is looking...

Screening Category: Special EventsRunning Time: 93:00Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. A newspaper reporter learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by a fellow explorer. Joined...

Screening Category: MidnightersRunning Time: 84:00:00Brent, a 17-year-old student grieving after the recent loss of his father, politely declines an invitation to the end of year school dance from Lola, the quietest girl in school. Devastated by the rejection, Lola and her overly protective father kidnap Brent and force him to endure...

So the music industry is in freefall, bringing speculation that live shows are the major revenue stream of the future. But what about film? Event-based screenings can bring excitement, revenue, and a place for your viewers to meet and mingle. Learn how to create events from four-walling, to multiple screenings how...

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 93:00:00Set against the backdrop of mile roads, neighborhood blocks, abandoned factories and lakes which make up Metro-Detroit, this story follows four young people as they search for love and adventure on the last night of summer. Maggie, Rob, Claudia and Scott cross paths as they explore...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 95:00:00THE OATH tells the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin LadenÕs former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the first man to face the controversial military tribunals. Filmed in Yemen and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, THE OATH is a family drama about...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 84:00:00The Parking Lot Movie is a documentary about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. The film follows the clever and hilarious group of Parking Lot Attendants that inhabit its microcosm. Three years in the making, this documentary is a strange rite of passage for all...

Screening Category: Special EventsThe Passion of Joan of Arc, directed by Carl Dreyer in 1928, is considered one of the best silent films ever made. Rene Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France. With the original print destroyed...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 97:00:00THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS examines, from a cultural perspective, the evolution of the conflicted dynamic between one of the most popular, influential and controversial filmmakers of all time and his legions of fans. Director:Alexandre O. PhilippeCast: Gary Kurtz, Neil...

Super 8 is the OG of guerilla filmmaking. Find out how you can make this beautiful, classic film gauge work in an HD world. From finding a camera to choosing film stock, scanning and encoding options, inclusive workflows, tips that make the difference and more. These aren't your grandpa's home movies...

The world of mobile is here. The opportunities are big and so are the challenges. This panel provides REAL insight on what is going on at the front lines of mobile from Creative Agencies, Device Manufacturers, and the Wireless Carriers. Get unique perspectives from the leading minds on untapped opportunities, leading...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesDirector:Mads BrggerProduction Company: Zentropa

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 90It's easy to imagine bull-riders and cowboys as remnants left over from a more romantic period in American history. These were the days of the dirt-drenched brooders who reigned over livestock with a rifle and a Marlboro Red. The imagery created an indelible and inescapably American...

This will follow-on from the "Browser Wars" panels of the past few years. I propose to this year focus on an important shift happening in the Web: a shift towards mobility and towards use of the browser as an application platform, including advances such as widgets, HTML5 and Geolocation.

Screening Category: HeadlinersRunning Time: 102:00Director:Floria SigismondiCast: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Scout Taylor-Compton, Michael Shannon, Alia Shawkat, Tatum O'NealScreenwriter: Floria SigismondiProduction Company: River Road Entertainment

The Net is rerouting our neural pathways, making us adept at skimming information but incapable of concentration and contemplation. The subtle mind of the book reader is being replaced by the distracted mind of the screen watcher.

Screening Category: SX GlobalRunning Time: 88The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man's detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti's...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 83:00:00Based on the wildly popular novel of the same name, The Taqwacores is the story of Yusef, a first generation Pakistani engineering student, living in Buffalo, NY with a group of Muslim punks. His housemates introduce him to Taqwacore, a hardcore Muslim punk rock scene that...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesDirector:Michel GondryCast: Suzette Gondry, Jean-Yves GondryProducer: Georges BermannScreenwriter: Michel GondryCinematography: Jean-Louis BompointProduction Company: Partizan

Screening Category: Special EventsRunning Time: 49:00Lon Chaney plays Alonzo, an armless sharpshooter and knife thrower in a Spanish gypsy circus. Alonzo smokes cigarettes, shoots a rifle, plays guitar, and throws knives with his feet, an effect Chaney produced with the help of a real-life armless double (Paul Desmuke). Alonzo's lovely assistant...

Screening Category: 24 Beats Per SecondRunning Time: 93:00:00THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY tells the story of musician Clarence Reid and his alter ego Blowfly, the original dirty rapper. At 69 years-old, with a catalog of the world's raunchiest tunes, Blowfly still records new material and tours the world with his manager...

Screening Category: Spotlight PremieresRunning Time: 93:00:00Under Great White Northern Lights is a visual and emotional feature length film documenting The White Stripes making their way through Canada and culminating with their 10th anniversary show in Nova Scotia. The film documents the band playing shows all overCanada; from local bowling alleys, to...

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesRunning Time: 83:23:00It was afros and James Brown. It was platform shoes and Parliament Funkadelic. It was the dawn of the seventies. In Houston, Texas, a hot new funk band was born. . .and they were high school kids! Conrad O. Johnson (known as Prof) was the...

Screening Category: Narrative CompetitionRunning Time: 01:38:0022-year-old Aura returns home to her artist motherÕs TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who's left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her...

Screening Category: Title Sequence Finalist Screening

Why and how are narrative worlds, be it traditional Film, Television, or New Media stories expanding across different media outlets and platforms? What are the emerging features of 'Transmedia' behavior, consumption and production? What do these new forms of storytelling, product and service design and branding tell us about future convergence...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 78:00:00A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly 'Peeping Toms' through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group...

Screening Category: MidnightersRunning Time: 01:28:40Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a backwoods comedy of horrific errors in which two unsuspecting buddies, Tucker and Dale, fall victim to the crazed machinations of a group of spring breakers who have mistaken them for backwoods killers!When Dale shelves his phobia of the opposite sex...

Why does the CEO next door look like he'd be more comfortable in a skate park than in a board room? Because we're smack in the middle of a youth entrepreneurial revolution; a new generation of innovative, game-changing entrepreneurs are changing the small business landscape for everyone. Our panel of young...

The panel discussion will explore ideas around making advertising a more useful and participatory experience for consumers. What if users had incentives to create advertisements based on their own experiences? Could they engage the right audience with an appropriate message? Today's social web could take this mainstream in a spam free...

We can count on an abundance of news and information in a media-saturated age. Yes, we'll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won't matter if we have crappy demand. Here are some principles, and some tactics, for helping passive consumers become active, even activist, creators and collaborators.

Due to video sharing sites and universal/blended search results, online videos are a growing trend for B2B and B2C businesses looking for a more creative way to enhance their online brand recognition and reputation, connect with and engage consumers, disseminate information, and get indexed on the search engines. Now is the...

Sure, you can spend thousands on CGI. But digital FX work can just as easily save a film money. So-called invisible effects can shave your budget or solve logistic problems and streamline a shoot. Affordable desktop tools and online resources can give high-end production value for low-budget price.

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesRunning Time: 140:00:00Paul is driving his girlfriend Adrienne cross-country to attend a wedding in LA. After flirtatious game-play causes them to swerve off the road, Adrienne wants to stop for the night - lonely RoyÕs Motel appears to be the ideal choice. As they attempt to unwind...

Screening Category: Documentary CompetitionRunning Time: 85:00:00n the heart of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, United Nations soldiers guard a heavily fortified building known as the 'special court.' Inside, Issa Sesay awaits his trial. Prosecutors say Sesay is a war criminal, guilty of crimes against humanity. His defenders say he is...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 80:00From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo's avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness. While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, "We Don't Care About Music Anyway..." offers a kaleidoscopic view...

Online video is becoming a legitimate, engaging storytelling medium. But has it evolved to the point where we can successfully critique it? And how do we as a community draw the line between encouraging new creators to contribute and establishing standards for quality content? Because, face it, sometimes "it stinks!"

Screening Category: Lone Star StatesRunning Time: 72:34:00A gifted black music student at the University of Texas is thrust into a civil rights storm that changes her life forever. Barbara Smith Conrad is cast in an opera to co-star with a white male classmate, fueling a racist backlash from members of the...

Screening Category: Festival FavoritesRunning Time: 100:0017 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods of Southern Missouri. To find him,...

It's obvious that "business as usual" isn't working. Managers and leaders are asked to create strategies that will win market share, create lasting value, and drive profits for their organizations. Unfortunately, the tools in creating business solutions that work haven't changed in more than 20 years -- until now. This session...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsWorld Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements interweaves the story of John Hunter, a teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his students' participation in an educational exercise that he created entitled the World Peace Game. The film follows this eight-week process whereby the children perform the roles of leaders of...

Screening Category: Emerging VisionsRunning Time: 76:28:00Desperate for tourism, hundreds of small towns across the U.S.A. claim the "world's largest" something from 15-foot fiberglass strawberries to 40-foot concrete pheasants. Odd, funny and sometimes beautiful, the statues stand as testaments to the uniqueness and importance - the largeness - that all people feel,...

Books, comics, news stories, magazine articles, real-life events or hot public topics. This kind of "presold" source material is grist to the mill of the modern studio scriptwriter. This panel discusses the wide range of source material, how to use it, and how to write an effective adaptation that sells.

Last year at SXSWi, Larry Lessig introduced Change Congress, a movement to clean up corruption in Congress. But that's only the beginning. All elected offices (local, state, and yes even Congress) need more techies, scientists, and engineers. Now! Why techies should run for office -- and how they can win.

When Michael Jackson died, where were you?...on the web, that is. Social media tools are playing an incredibly powerful role in uniting people around the world in awareness, conversation and action around breaking news and global current events. We used to ask, ''When you heard the news...where were you?'' But now...

The success of horror entertainment is becoming more dependent on niche online communities than the mainstream. This panel explains how to create loyal but vocal genre communities using social media tools. The panelists will also describe how they leveraged their community's involvement to further along the horror genre.

Stereotypically known to blend into the background both personally and professionally, a significant amount of web professionals around the world are of Asian descent. How do they reconcile identity given one's history, heritage and contemporary culture? Given linguistic and cultural divides? While marketers and businesses perceive Asians as a target market,...

Great web design is all around us, but can we go beyond 'cool', 'usable' and 'fun' to create something truly beautiful? This session examines our changing attitudes to beauty, art and meaning, and why the web is ideally suited to become a vehicle for true beauty in the Information Age.

Designing a comprehensive user experience without thinking about body copy, calls to action, errors, and nomenclature? Think again--about content strategy. If you're an IA, designer, search marketer, or strategist, content strategy can help you understand clients' needs, articulate an approach, and align with a brand-driven, user-centered message architecture.

The gaming industry is full of entrepreneurs jockeying to fund the next big idea. While gaming has thrived despite the recession, it's still harder than ever to secure funding. Learn first-hand from gaming entrepreneurs about how to attract funding success and how to turn that money into a profitable venture.

Even though technology evolved at a crazy pace the last 100 years, the humble button has stayed at the center of it all. What is its past, its future? Why is it important? What does it say about the interaction between humans and technology? Pictures, stories, revelations, maybe movies.

What if Rod Serling had a blog? Would Alfred Hitchcock Tweet? These great producers and directors brought suspense and irony to the popular medium of the time; television. How did their work shape the minds of the young people of the time who would grow up to create "our" Internet?

"In Code We Trust" is the new motto for Government in the 21st century. Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. Built upon open-source tools, open standards, and best practices, this panel will highlight...

Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice.

Customers expect the same treatment from a company, whether they interact with it through a physical store, website, or mobile device. We relish simplifying these experiences yet often ignore critical institutional barriers of the organizations we serve. This panel flags five critical pitfalls on the path to Multichannel integration.

In early 2009 the Federal Trade Commission became more vocal on its opinions regarding online advertising and privacy policies. To sum it up, the FTC has basically been saying advertisers are not disclosing how they collect information on users well enough. So what could happen to the future of advertising and...

Each year at SXSW, you hear about "SXSW SARS" or "SXSW Scurvy." Days packed with panels, movies, and concerts are exhausting and wear down your immune system. Learn some ways in which you can prepare for, and stay clear of getting sick at SXSW.

The word, "recessionista" was just coined last year, but there are cheapskates who have been writing and sharing creative tips about how to live frugally for years. The panel will discuss how they scope out the best deals and tips to share with their readers. Panels will talk about the thrill...

The term 'user experience' used to be an afterthought in mobile application design. The iPhone changed all that and has set a new benchmark for user experience on mobile devices. This panel will serve as a primer for anyone interested in learning how to apply UX principles to the creation of...

Battledecks is a fast-paced, fun, laugh riot where "contestants" have to put together a presentation on the fly as slides are randomly projected for their confusion and the delight of the audience. Contestants are then judged by a panel of low-level celebrities, who can be bought.Battledecks was performed at SXSW '08,...

Past SXSW panels have shown that Black bloggers and bloggers of color are becoming more prominent and well-known as the years progress. From "Blogging While Black" to being "Digital Urbanites", being a Black blogger is definitely not limited to any monolithic stereotype. Learn from some of the pioneers and thought-leaders in...

ID privacy, hijacking and the use of stolen identities in site registrations, e-mail, e-commerce and social networking has become a real threat. Web 2.0 has brought about gaps for social engineering and the need for Identity 2.0 and voice biometrics. Learn about technologies to secure your ID or your customers'.

What happens when business models get in the way of being socialonline? How can the social web evolve and meet the needs of all usersrather then the loudest? Join this important panel discussion onco-creating fun and valuable experiences with your users from adesign, business and user perspective.

Everything I needed to know about innovation, I learned by drawing cartoons. Launching a cartoon has a far lower success rate than innovation. Successful cartoonists have to be experts at generating ideas and breaking through the clutter.I'll share my experience, but also insights from Watterson, Groening, Adams, and others.

If 99% of your customers are fantastic, you're still going to deal with bastards. And even the best of us make bad hiring decisions. But there are time-honored approaches to defusing crises, deflecting attacks, and denuding d-bags.This panel of bastards will discuss and demonstrate.

Learn how the fundamentals of improvised comedy can help you achieve freelance success. Active listening, trusting yourself, and saying "yes, and..." are essential to good improv - and good freelancing. You'll learn skills to help you sign clients you love and get paid what you're worth. And we'll play games!

By referencing research in Communication studies, we will examine the role of technology within interpersonal relationships. Specifically, we will analyze negatives and positives in three distinct relational categories: professional, familial, and romantic. This would be an academic panel to educate an audience about the potential repercussions of always being ''online.''

The web originated with generalists - webmasters designing, building, and developing. Today, a web team can have a dozen different specialist roles, each highly-focused. With that in mind, what are the strengths of specialists and generalists, and when are each put to their best use on a project or in an...

Collaboration is key to the UX process, but it becomes increasingly difficult across locations. Working remotely with engineers, product managers and other UX'ers is challenging. Learn how members of the Google UX team work with other offices and team members domestically and internationally to create the best user experiences possible.

Writers, musicians and other creatives are always on the lookout for new strategies to help get their work in front of key influencers. Sure, off-the-shelf solutions can be helpful, but they can take the adventure out of making genuine connections. This presentation will focus on letting go of outcomes and following...

Can Princess Leia eating an Apple Pie help me remember a number? Want to learn techniques the Memory Masters use? With a bunch of audience participation demonstrations, Grand Master of Memory - Mark Channon shows you how to unleash creativity, consume information and take away tools you can instantly put into...

Using open source is one thing, but can your idea succeed if you give your own work away? Scrappy entrepreneurs will discuss that question, share their own experiences with open source business models, and offer advice to others considering open source licenses.

Since 2003, online dating has evolved in how web sites, profiles and photos are constructed to attract potential mates. Expectations and resultant relationships have changed as well. In this talk we illustrate how web site design and user savvy have created an alternate universe of intimate social protocols.

Don't change you; change how you network. Make sure you have a realistic strategy that plays to your strengths and then act on it. This interactive session will help you identify your special strategy and give you the confidence to network successfully in the real world and online.

We design websites for users, but if we don't also have a deep and thorough grasp of the content that will be served up to those users, we're not going to be able to create optimal experiences for them. Learn how to do Content Research to augment your User Research.

The world of web typography is changing at a record pace, what progress has been made in the last year and where do we need to go? This panel is a follow-up to last year's popular discussion and continues addressing debates around real-fonts on the web.

Analytics are often a confusing and convoluted mess, but that doesn't mean that they have to be. The Guide to Practical Data will help ensure you're reaching your full analytical potential. Learn how to analyze public and proprietary data to accelerate the success of any initiative. Featuring detailed demonstrations from top...

Mallory Messina, a Culture Activities Representative from Southwest Airlines, will begin with the most obvious question: what exactly is a ''CAR'' and what kind of company would create this job?Beyond trust falls and cheesy team activities, how can a company build upon their culture and engage their employees online?

Smartphones, broadband, and social networks have changed the way we communicate. They affect everything from workplace productivity to personal relationships. Where are we headed? Both the architects and users of social tools will benefit from a look at communications research and the technologies on the horizon.

This panel is the first Community Innovation Summit of leaders of Developer Networks. It is a lively discussion about fostering innovation in online communities.

Cooking for Geeks covers a new way of looking at how to cook for the hacker, maker, and creative person. By bringing science and experimentation into the kitchen, this panel will show how to create better food and new experiences at the dinner table.

In the world of social networking, constant access, and real time updates, has the way in which we date evolved for the better or for the worse? This panel hopes to address the issues that have been created with "dating" and interacting online. We also hope to discuss the future of...

Is it enough in this economy to simply create great designs? Are people buying for style or to be a part of a lifestyle? The panel will explore whether fashion and product designers should spend as much time creating communities utilizing social media as they do picking the right color and...

Aimed at both first-time and long-time attendees to SXSW Interactive, this biting and humorous, yet useful panel takes a look at the common actions and behaviors to avoid if you don't want to be described as "doing it wrong."

This panel will discuss how to run a startup without a technical cofounder. For people who just have passion but can't code shit, this panel is about what to do. Fake it til you make it. We still are.

Visual mapping of relationship circles: exploring tools for appropriate social technology in conference cultures where work and pleasure meet. Intimate boundaries, mixing business and love and the essentials of compassion in network culture will be explored through interactive visualization Q&A. Fluid dynamics and connections discussed.

One of the main reasons that people attend a multi-day conference is for the "networking opportunities". However, once there they fail to make meaningful connections that will lead to ongoing relationship and future opportunities.This presentation delivers usable tips and actionable advice that will help people get them most out of their...

Two high-profile industry mavericks narrate the battle for your living room. The first wants you to watch all your entertainment via your Internet connection - ditching that costly cable bill and making all your entertainment onDemand. The second wants you to pay a cable/satellite to bundle channels that you can surf...

Last Spring, three kids set out in one car for two weeks. Their mission was to discover the emerging future for a new America, one town at a time.While they captured and produced plenty of content along their "roadtwip". The most valuable thing was the relationships they established.This panel is about...

As the trend of š„²webifying' continues, the smallness and simplicity of web applications will become a thing of the past. This raises the challenge of securing these web behemoths. An industry panel of Security engineering managers will discuss the approaches they use to secure their web behemoths. The attendees will gain...

As the Internet has accelerated the creation of all types of content, it's become more and more difficult to sift through that content and find something of quality. We've tried it with machines and even mass consensus but the results are either wrong or lowest common denominator. The irony in all...

As more devices become location aware, social uses will continue to evolve beyond just who and what, to WHEN. Adding the temporal dimension creates new opportunities for social interaction. Learn about ways to leverage and use technology to add features at the intersection of temporal, social, and location.

At first glance the fretboard of a ukulele (or guitar) looks incomprehensible, but with the magic of pentatonic scales - ancient, nearly universal 5-note patterns, you can "crack the code" and hack the fretboard and start jamming along with your favorite tunes or musician friends in no time.You don't need to...

You use social media for our friends, dating and... finding a kicka** job you love? If you aren't using sites like twitter, linkedin, facebook and more for anything other than a bootycall or posting pic's - you aren't even REALLY trying! Come get a job the fun way!

Video games are more popular than ever, and new games are delivering all kinds of social benefits, from video-game therapy for treating PTSD, to sims for train surgeons, to alternate-reality games that actually bring people together in real life. Will video games be a positive force for people and society in...

Soft launch into the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival experience with the Friday Night Mix at Six. This official pre-party provides a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new connections. Enjoy great views of downtown Austin from the rooftop deck and expanded room to network in the adjoining Tap...

This Friday SXSW kickoff party unites the digerati as they channel their inner Fame Monster by reviving a decade of style and glamour that made the social elite go ga ga.

The Hive Awards honor “the Unsung Heroes of the Internet.”  The people who do the heavy lifting but rarely get any credit. Extended entry deadline: Feb. 15th. Enter @ http://www.hiveawards.com

The Austin Museum of Digital Art presents a party featuring live electronic music and visual art. Expect video projections, interactive installations, and a Laptop Battle with musicians competing to outperform one another in a series of elimination rounds. Free for SXSW Interactive badgeholders. www.amoda.org

The stage is set for another big year at SXSW Film and you're invited to the opening night celebration. Enjoy drinks with old friends and have fun making new ones!