Interactive: March 13-17
Film: March 13-21
Music: March 18-22
"In its 22 years, SXSW has grown from a tiny music festival in the Texas capital into a massive, unavoidable media beast that reflects, discusses and showcases trends in culture and media but also often creates them." National Post, 3/13/08
Jesse Epstein has had a busy year on the festival circuit and receiving critical acclaim for the short film 34X25X36, which premiered at this past SXSW. Jesse was one of five short filmmakers from Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces" to present a mobile phone gen
Lance Myers is an Austin-based animator, a SXSW alum and previous juror, and a regular contributor to the DIONYSIUM series at the Alamo South Lamar (The Next Screening is TONIGHT, September 3rd). SXSW programmer Lya Guerra asks him some questions about the series, and in turn, learns about the Greeks and animation and the direction of mankind in general.
Thomas Logoreci was a writer and actor in the very well received short film A Day's Work, at last year's SXSW Film Festival. SXSW's Lya Guerra catches up with him and finds out what he’s doing when he’s not winning awards or programming shorts for a festival in Albania, and makes him choose between his life’s passions.