2013 SXSW Film Venues & Shuttles from SXSW on Vimeo.
Hot off the press (well, the edit suite), check out this essential video detailing all the great venues in this year's SXSW Film Festival. There's also great info on shuttles during the event, which this year will run all nine days of SXSW Film.
For more information on Venues, check out this page, and head to this page to get the Shuttles lowdown...then plan your schedule!
Filmmakers in Focus keeps on keeping on, and this edition looks at four films that deal with some controversial issues and subjects.
A Teacher dissects a most inappropriate teacher/student relationship; Milo is, well, an "ass monster movie"; Snap takes us on "a dark and terrifying journey into the depths of the psychopathic mind"; and Unhung Hero confronts the ultimate questions - does size matter?
Click on a title below to read the conversation, then start planning your SXSW with our film schedule.
Photo via FX Networks
W. Kamau Bell’s FX show, Totally Biased, highlights the host’s aptitude for on-point, observational humor, making it one of the network's edgiest and most intelligent comedies. As they take an honest look at current events (and less important, but equally amazing, pop culture moments), Bell and his all-star cast of comic contributors are a force to be reckoned with.
Depeche Mode, photo by Accu Soft Co
SXSW is proud to announce an interview with Depeche Mode as a late-breaking addition to the Music Conference. Depeche Mode's enduring appeal has led to sales of over 100 million records in their career spanning thirty years. From their genre-defining debut to their newest album Delta Machine, the band pairs forward-looking music and soul-searching lyrical themes. Depeche's Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher will sit down with KCRW's Jason Bentley to discuss the past, present and future of Depeche Mode. Join us on Wednesday, March 13 at 5:00pm in the Austin Convention Center for this unique look inside a legendary band.
Kickback with Canon on Monday, March 11 for an evening of celebration with SXSW's creative community. Get your hands on Canon's latest technology while mingling over food, drinks and beats with fellow directors, cinematographers, producers and digital content gurus. The evening will feature a one of kind interactive DJ performance. Check out Pulse, the EOS C100 film inspired by this new technology.
2013 Showcasing Artist The Joy Formidable
The Joy Formidable incorporates many different sounds into their music. Ultimately, these are just some good, catchy rock tunes. The distorted guitars are a highlight, engineering a wall of sound that doesn’t smack you in the face. The songs start out as simple, blissful rock tunes. At times, the music transforms into driven, borderline-metal riffs. Interesting, engaging, and diverse in sound, The Joy Formidable is for any fan of music. The sound simply FILLS your speakers.
Listen to The Joy Formidable and more international SXSW Showcasing Artists on SXSWfm. Stay tuned and check the SXSWfm blog for daily updates 24/7, year-round. Thank you for listening!
For 2013, SXSW Interactive is partnering with Mass Relevance to provide an innovative digital platform for the Q&A sessions during the Keynote and Featured sessions taking place in Exhibit Hall 5 of the Austin Convention Center. This platform will curate the social content in real time for redisplay on the screens during the Q&A. The interface will source questions from the audience prior to and during each session using a distinct hashtag.
SXSW Music is excited to announce an interview with hip hop superstar 50 Cent on Saturday, March 16. Hear him tell of his meteoric rise to fame from humble beginnings in Queens, to his discovery by Eminem in 2002, which blasted off an incredibly successful musical career and his own label, G-Unit Records. He'll discuss how he parlayed this into a significant hip hop empire, as well as his current work with SMS Headphones and the upcoming release of his album Street King Immortal.
SXSW Interview: 50 Cent
Sat. March 16th, 2:00-3:00pm
Room 18ABC at the Austin Convention Center
50 Cent will then appear for signing/meet & greet in the SMS Audio Booth in Gear Expo in Exhibit Hall 5 at 4:00pm on Saturday. Come down and meet the star in person!
2013 Showcasing Band Japandroids
Where can you see Ghostface Killah, The Specials and Iggy and the Stooges in one night at one of Austin’s favorite intimate music venues, the Mohawk? The legends are joined by rising stars Japandroids, Middle Class Rut and Sky Ferreira in a raucous riot of hip hop, ska, punk rock, indie and synth-pop that is the must-see SXSW Music Festival lineup and it’s only at House of Vans at the Mohawk presented by Fat Possum Records on March 13.
Logo courtesy Vice
Vice is barreling into Austin for SXSW 2013! Their compound, aptly named VICELAND will be an official lounge during SXSW Interactive, with live music every night, and will turn into an official showcasing venue during SXSW Music. Head on down to VICELAND for WiFi, food and drink, meetings, debauchery, quiet time, and some unexpected twists. In Vice's own words: "It's going to melt your face and then your laptop, and anyone else's face or laptop within your vicinity."
VICELAND will be located at 401 East Cesar Chavez. Check out www.vice.com/sxsw and the SXSW schedules for a full list of programming.
New! 2014 dates!
Interactive: March 7–11
Film: March 7–16
Music: March 11–16
