winding down

Best of the fest: Short Term 12 earns its grand jury prize

By Aleksander Chan

03.16.13 | 6:30 pm

Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12, which won the grand jury prize for best narrative feature at this year’s SXSW, is a trip. It’s hard to tear yourself away from this story about a g ...

Young Adult Fiction

SXSW 2013 film review: The Spectacular Now makes a strong case for the teen drama renaissance

By Aleksander Chan

03.15.13 | 5:00 pm

The romantic comedy may be dead, but the young adult coming-of-age drama, of the John Hughes-ian variety, could be on the cusp of a renaissance. James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now —&n ...

Abominable Arachnid

SXSW interview: Big Ass Spider! filmmakers believe horror and laughs go hand-in-hand

By Ryan Lakich

03.14.13 | 10:40 am

Premiering as part of SXSW Film’s Midnighters lineup of horror and sci-fi films, Big Ass Spider! sticks out from the usual fare of independent films headlining the rest of the festival. Namel ...

Can we be friends?

SXSW 2013 film review: Drinking Buddies goes down smooth, but with little flavor

By Aleksander Chan

03.12.13 | 10:40 am

In a brief Q & A session at the SXSW world premiere with the cast of Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg’s romantic drama set in a Chicago beer brewery, star Olivia Wilde said that her role, a ...

SXSW Red Carpets

Willie Nelson, Harry Connick Jr. and more hit the red carpet for the SXSW premiere of When Angels Sing

By Karen Brooks Harper

03.11.13 | 1:30 pm

The premiere of When Angels Sing brought some true Texas legends and a host of local artists the Paramount Theater on Sunday, March 10, 2013. ...

Hipstercrite Productions

Loves Her Gun, from Austinites Geoff Marslett and Lauren Modery, makes its SXSW debut

By Ryan Lakich

03.11.13 | 11:38 am

If you’re a regular reader of CultureMap, you need no introduction to Lauren Modery. If not, quickly introduce yourself to her via Hipstercrite, a blog through which she entertains reade ...

SXSW 2013

The VHS revolution: An interview with Josh Johnson, director of Rewind This!

By Jacob Hall

03.10.13 | 11:42 am

In many ways, Rewind This! is a bit of a miracle movie. Not only did this documentary about the VHS revolution get made, it got made by a crew that was also holding down day jobs on a budget raised ...

a fool's errand?

From midnighters to shorts and premieres: Our 10 most anticipated films of SXSW 2013

By Jacob Hall

03.08.13 | 9:42 am

Here's the thing about any major film festival: the true gems, the must-see-movies, will reveal themselves with time. The beauty of a fest like SXSW is that you can go into a movie knowing abso ...

Texas High School Shorts Competition

George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center

03.08.13 - 03.09.13

Screening of films from SXSW Texas High School Shorts Program.

SXSW Community Workshop: Austin School of Film Youth M.A.F.I.A.

Austin Convention Center

03.09.13

You and your team will have 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film. You will receive a genre and a prop that has to be incorporated into your short film. Your team will be required to have