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2017 SXSW Film Festival Award Winner, Mr. Roosevelt In Theaters Now [Video]

Not only was Mr. Roosevelt Noel Wells's feature directorial debut, she also wrote and acted in the film. Mr. Roosevelt won the 2017 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award for Narrative Spotlight and the Louis Black "Lone Star" Award. Wells grew up in Texas and is a graduate of the Radio-Television-Film…

BY Neha Aziz

Find Your Favorite SXSW 2018 Artist With SXSWfm®

Tune into SXSWfm® to discover SXSW 2018 Showcasing Artists. With each announcement, comes a specialty show which includes music from a handful of our favorite newly announced artists. Our next SXSW Music Festival announcement show will be available for your listening pleasure on Tuesday, November 7 at 10am CT on…

BY Allison Johnson

A Look Back: Dr. Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D is a coinventor of CRISPR-Cas9, a process that has revolutionized gene editing. She is a professor of molecular and cell biology and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences, and is a Howard…

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Esther Perel: Measuring Our Erotic Intelligence

She’s known as an expert on sex and marriage, but Esther Perel’s writings and therapy sessions explore the nature of modern relationships, beyond just the sexual. With a focus on societal mores, intimacy, history, anthropology and power structures, the Belgian psychotherapist may be revolutionizing our notions of what it means…

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Is Computing Headed for Quantum Supremacy?

By March, says whurley (aka William Hurley), Austin-based entrepreneur and quantum computing expert, the subject of his SXSW keynote is going to be the huge topic. Quantum computing is poised to be a dramatic paradigm shift in computing. More so than the blockchain, it is an extraordinarily dense concept for…

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Inside the Songwriting Craft of Savan Kotecha

Remember the quaint notion of selling out? With each passing year, the fevered quest for exposure has rendered the detached, ultra-cool artist more and more of an outlier. Instead, these days, many artists dive into the mainstream from the very beginning. Songwriter Savan Kotecha began life as a typical pop…

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The Disaster Artist Celebrates Accidental Celebrity

There was a palpable air of anticipation coming from many directions at once at the Paramount Theatre’s 2017 SXSW Film Festival screening of The Disaster Artist. James Franco had written, directed and starred in the adaptation of Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book of the same name about the bizarre…

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(L-R) Seth Rogen, Tommy Wiseau, James Franco, Greg Sestero, and Dave Franco at the SXSW premiere of The Disaster Artist. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

In Workplaces and Workspaces, Women Change the Dynamics

The technology industry has a record of being unwelcoming and even harmful to women. Accusations of sexual harassment and pay gaps, especially for women of color, have plagued companies, with Google and Uber especially coming under recent scrutiny. “I believe that tech has a long way to go because the…

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Whitney Wolfe (R) during "The Future of Connection" session at SXSW 2017. Photo by David Zacek

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