South by Southwest

Hollywood Film Festival sounds cool, right?

source: Indie Wire

When I worked at SXSW, I always grew tired of other festivals that gave what we were trying to do, a bad name. While regionally-based festivals like True/False, Atlanta, Sarasota, and Hamptons (among many others) try to do good work with good films, there was always something “off” about t...

Published Mon, Oct 19

Midnight Youth Auction Private Gig For Charity. - Scoop.co.nz

source: Scoop.co.nz

press release), New Zealand The Warner Music signed band formed in 2006. It has toured in North America with appearances at the acclaimed SXSW music festival in Austin (Texas), New York as well as the famed Los Angeles venue The Viper Room. In New Zealand it played support for ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Zee Avi at Hunter-Gatherer

source: Free Times

 SC Before long, Avi was being whisked to Austin to perform at the SXSW Music Festival to Los Angeles to record her self-titled Brushfire Records debut. Avi's self-titled record very much keeps with the Jack Johnson aesthetic: it's warm and cozy; ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

“Revenant” Resonates With Vegas Audiences

source: Indie Wire

In Winnebago Man, filmmaker Ben Steinbauer sets out to find him.” “Man” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this March, where indieWIRE's Eric Kohn said it “brilliantly encapsulates the transformative power of the online video boom.” Winnebago Man Variety all 2 news articles

Published Tue, Jun 16

ZXZW Festival To Change Its Name

source: The Quietus

 UK We've grown substantially in the past four years, and since a great deal of our audience, artists and press coverage comes from abroad, we get more and more confused with the SXSW festival. Because we are a different festival, including arts, ...

Published Tue, Jun 16

Recap: A Northside Festival postmortem

source: Decider New York

by Paul Caine June 15, 2009 It's one thing for the indie music world to converge on Austin, Texas for SXSW. It's another thing for young, easily impressed college radio programmers to converge on Manhattan for the CMJ Music Marathon. ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Twitter's Backchannel: Next Best Thing To A Backstage Pass?

source: Ypulse

Not to mention the added perks of daily recommendations and heads up for last minute surprise shows provided by the magazine behind the festival. Early adopters may have already caught on to this benefit of Twitter way back at last year's SXSW Music ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Can't Miss It: Monday

source: Seattlest

 Seattle The intimate, emotional film has won awards from festivals as diverse as SXSW, the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the San Francisco Documentary Festival. In a Dream screens at the NWFF through Thursday. NEVER PISS OFF MOTHER EARTH: If you're not ...

Published Mon, Jun 15