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The News Reel - Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Oscilloscope Laboratories have teamed with Warner Bros for a new foray into digital distribution. The partnership will bring a number of films to VOD and download, including SXSW premieres Frontrunners and Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father (both SXSW 2008). More info here, here, and here.

Over at their blog, the folks behind another SXSW film from the Oscilloscope slate, Burma VJ, discuss their partnership with the UK's Co-operative bank.

Variety has just posted a review of SXSW 2009 world premiere Modern Love Is Automatic.
Meanwhile, another of this year's SXSW world premieres, Winnebago Man, is reviewed at Gordon and the Whale.

Cary Fukunaga has been named as one of the directors of the new Levi's campaign, which kicks off July 4th. Fukunaga's Sin Nombre screened as a spotlight premiere at SXSW 2009.

Check out the trailer for Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax, recently posted by the New York Times. The film received its North American premiere at SXSW 2009.