2008 General schedules

Film

• 2/5: Feature film selections announced
• 2/12: Short film selections announced
• 3/7: Registration, festival begins; opening party
• 3/8: Film conference registration and festival
• 3/9-3/11: Film panels, festival, 'iF!' exhibition
• 3/11: Film awards and conference closing party
• 3/12-3/15: Film festival
• Official Web site

Interactive

• 3/7: Registration, panels begin
• 3/8: Opening remarks from Henry Jenkins, panels
• 3/9: Trade show opens, panels, Web awards
• 3/10: Panels, trade show
• 3/11: Panels, trade show, closing party
• Official Web site

Music

• 3/12: Registration, panels and festival begin, welcome dinner, Austin Music Awards
• 3/13-3/15: Panels, festival, trade show, Flatstock Poster Artist show
• 3/16: Music festival, softball tournament and barbeque
• Official Web site

Posted: Mar. 17, 1:27 PM
After cewebrity gossip Perez Hilton wrote than Van Morrison was blacklisted from the Driskill after allegedly throwing a room service tray at the delivery person because the order was wrong, hotel managing director John Spomer issued a statement that said…
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Posted: Mar. 16, 8:49 PM
When I talked to her the afternoon before her set, DJ Rekha asked me what the Desi scene in Austin was like. I told her it’s young, predominantly comprised of UT kids. We shared a moment over the fact…
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Posted: Mar. 16, 6:00 PM
See clips from showcases you missed as well as interviews, scene reports from side parties and much more. Got video from SXSW 2008? Send us your You Tube links for our SXSW You Tube roundup. Wed.:Lou Reed | Quiet Company…
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Posted: Mar. 16, 5:25 PM
Early Sunday morning — around 2:30 a.m. — the Red Bull Moon Tower on East Cesar Chavez was jam-packed with thirsty souls that (amazingly) didn’t imbibe their maximum amount of alcohol or hear enough music over the previous four days…
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Posted: Mar. 16, 4:18 PM
A joint best and worst moment of the fest came during the Ezra Furman and the Harpoons mini-set at the Lou Reed tribute at the Fader Fort. Furman, a fresh faced Tufts University student came out wearing a T-shirt…
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Posted: Mar. 14, 10:01 AM
Still-green actor Ryan Phillippe has undermined yet another promising film. This time it’s the Austin-shot “Stop-Loss,” which premiered at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday during the last days of the South by Southwest Film Festival. Phillippe plays an Iraq war…
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Posted: Mar. 13, 12:57 PM
Despite being a for-fans music doc both in its casual shooting approach (so “fly on the wall” that the filmmaker doesn’t seem to care if we understand everything being said) and in attitude (we’re expected to admire the main players…
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Posted: Mar. 13, 10:53 AM
“Choke,” an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s cult novel, made its regional premiere last night at the Paramount. Who knew sexual addiction could be this funny? Victor Mancini, played to smarmy perfection by Sam Rockwell, is instantly likable despite his penchant…
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Posted: Mar. 11, 7:39 PM
JURY AWARDS REEL SHORTS Special Jury Award - “The Second Line,” Director: John Magary. Winner: (Tie) “Warlord,” Director: David Garrett & “Small Apartment,” Director: Andrew T. Betzer ANIMATED SHORTS Special Jury Award: “I hate you don’t touch me or Bat…
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Posted: Mar. 11, 2:09 PM
After “Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay,” “The Promotion” and “Run Fatboy Run” — all of which drew massive crowds at the Paramount over the weekend — the big Hollywood comedy to beat at SXSW was “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” It…
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Posted: Apr. 08, 2:33 PM
In case you aren’t already burned out on Internet-related awards after the Bloggies, the South by Southwest Interactive Web Awards and the YouTube Awards, you can vote on a whole new set of categories in the 12th Annual Webby Awards….
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Posted: Apr. 04, 4:00 PM
It was lost amid the shuffle for me at South by Southwest Interactive, but a new Austin company launched during the festival and aims to be another option in the increasingly crowded online video and music market. Unicorn Media says…
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Posted: Mar. 21, 10:18 AM
The YouTubies have been announced! The 2007 YouTube Video Award winners have been announced and although some familiar nominees didn’t make the winner’s circle (Obama Girl, the “Leave Britney Alone!” guy), one of our favorites, Tay Zonday, did win for…
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Posted: Mar. 18, 2:52 PM
New York City blogger Jeffrey Zeldman has posted an entry on his site today suggesting that visitors to the South By Southwest Interactive Festival form a parenting collective next year to pool resources. It would allow parents to bring their…
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Posted: Mar. 17, 3:55 PM
After going home for some major baby time and watching a lot of TV, I’m finally allowing my brain to go back to South by Southwest Interactive, that joyous, overfilled pot of multimedia goodness that by Tuesday afternoon felt like…
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