SXSW Festival: Two New Zealand films to be shown Radio New Zealand A documentary about cult New Zealand band The Chills and a film directed by nine woman recorded throughout the Pacific are to be…
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Beats 1’s Julie Adenuga and Matt Wilko Share Their Ones to Watch in 2019 VICE From Clairo to Alicai Harley and Slowthai, the two London-based tastemakers share their thoughts on the artists to look out…
The 10 biggest movie surprises of 2018 | TheRecord.com TheRecord.com In an art form that thrives on sequels — and that might as well market its products as “the predictable meets the formulaic” — any…
A Subversive Instagram Vending Machine Just Hit Los Angeles VICE If you’ve found yourself roaming popular tourist destinations in LA this past week, you may have come across a vending machine urging you to swipe…
Meow Wolf To Create Exhibition In Washington D.C. Los Alamos Daily Post WASHINGTON, D.C. – Meow Wolf rocketed into 2018 with back-to-back January announcements of huge new permanent installations in Denver and Las Vegas ……
Cape Education Briefs – News Cape Cod Times Film on science fair to be screened FridayEASTHAM — Watch this, science fair lovers.A free showing of the National Geographic documentary film, “Science … …read more Source::…
NewsOK.comAUSTIN, Texas – Tulsa-based band BRONCHO will be showcased in the spring 2019 edition of Austin, Texas’ South by Southwest Music Festival. SXSW announced this week the second wave of Showcasing Artists invited to perform…
Noise11Three Sydney acts plus one each from Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Perth and Auckland have been added to the SXSW line-up for 2019. The new Australia artists are: Vacations (NEWCASTLE) Emerson Snowe (BRISBANE) I Know Leopard…
Brooklyn VeganThe Beths will be back in North America next year for SXSW and the Savannah Stopover, and will be touring around the festivals with Bad Bad Hats that includes dates in the U.S. and…
Upset MagazineSome new names have joined the bill for SXSW 2019, including The Dirty Nil and Doe. Also new to the bill, are Bloxx, whenyoung, Sports Team, Sam Fender, Avalanche Party, Black Midi, Novelist, Dylan…
Music FeedsThe Aussie invasion headed to Austin’s blockbuster annual SXSW festival next year has just been embiggened by seven more stellar local acts. Sydney’s vocal powerhouse Odette, swoon-poppers I Know Leopard and producer Haiku Hands…
The Music NetworkSeven more Australian acts were on South By Southwest’s (SXSW) second round of artists to showcase next March in Austin, Texas. Vacations (Newcastle), Emerson Snowe (Brisbane), I Know Leopard (Sydney), Denise le Menice…
PollstarSouth by Southwest Music Festival announced its second round of showcase artists for its 2019 event on Wednesday. The artists will join those detailed last month for South by Southwest’s music portion, scheduled March 11…
austin360Following Tuesday’s announcement of notable speakers who will appear at South by Southwest 2019, festival organizers released the second round of artists who have been confirmed to play the festival on Wednesday. There are 250…
Austin ChronicleSouth by Southwest 2019 is already looking rather queer. This morning, the multifaceted festival released their latest round of keynote and featured speakers and two prominent LGBTQ icons find their names on this list:…
austin360Puppeteer, director and producer Frank Oz, actor and comedian Kevin Hart, actress and producer Elisabeth Moss, “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, musician Lance Bass, and actress and writer Busy Philips have all been added to…
VarietyACQUISITIONS. Greenwich Entertainment has bought “Wild Nights with Emily,’ a dramatic comedy about Emily Dickinson starring Molly Shannon. The film, which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, was written and directed by…
DeadlineGreenwich Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to Wild Nights With Emily, the dramatic comedy about Emily Dickinson that premiered at SXSW this year. Directed and penned by Madeleine Olnek, the pic stars SNL alum Molly…
All hail the 2019 SXSW Community Service Awards honorees!austin360The quietest party at South by Southwest might be the most important one. The SXSW Service Community Awards lauds the quiet revolutionaries of technology and other endeavors,…
The PressMorrissey had a problem. The Englishman, former frontman for The Smiths, was scheduled to speak at the prestigious South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. Affectionately referred to as “South by”, the influential…
Noise11Texan guitar player Alejandro Escavedo has a big fan in Bruce Springsteen. In 2012 at SXSW both Springsteen and Escavedo were showcasing. Bruce made it a point to be wherever Alejandro was as often as…
DeadlineAlso, Abramorama is opening dramedy-romance Write When You Get Work, directed by Stacy Cochran and starring Emily Mortimer, while Greenwich Entertainment is bowing executive producer Jesse Eisenberg’s SXSW documentary The World Before Your … …read…
Patch.com“Over the past 20 years, SXSW has awarded nearly 200 exemplary individuals and organizations with grants and access to the event to help further their important work,” Chief Brand Officer Jann Baskett said in a…
Can big events affect your establishment?Restaurant Business OnlineIn fact, no single month comes within 30% of March’s top-line revenue numbers–and it’s all because of SXSW. The profit impact is even more massive, with no month…
Alejandro Escovedo to tour Australia for the first time everNoise11Austin-based guitarist Alejandro Escovedo will tour Australia for the first time ever in 2019. Bruce Springsteen is a huge Escovedo fan. At SXSW 2012 Bruce almost…
KXAN.comThose currently enrolled in grades 9-12, an undergraduate or postgraduate program or members of a school’s faculty attending with three or more students qualify for the discount and can apply on SXSW’s website and show…
Morfydd Clark & Jennifer Ehle Lead Cast In Film4 & BFI-Backed Thriller ‘Saint Maud’; Protagonist Handles SalesDeadlineHer graduation short Room 55 was selected for film festivals including SXSW, Palm Springs and the BFI London Film…
KXAN.comAUSTIN (KXAN) — New research found the number of Austin area hotels bought by investors has nearly doubled in just one year. Dennis Drake, a senior associate at CBRE, said, “We’re seeing investors from all…
Hollywood ReporterGLOSSARY The following abbreviations denote the film festival(s) at which a film has screened and/or will be screening: SUND=Sundance, SXSW=South by Southwest, TRIB=Tribeca, CANN=Cannes, VENI=Venice, TELL=Telluride, TIFF=Toronto, NYFF=New … …read more Source:: SXSW News…
Screen InternationalThe US indie title premiered at SXSW in March, where it won the feature film Grand Jury award. It then screened in the ACID showcase at Cannes. Thunder Road is based on Cummings’ short…
SXSW Day OneThe Shadow League (blog)Pick up credential. Have problems with credential. Make calls, tell people they were wrong. Justice. Head in the general direction of something you think you need to see, quickly losing…
VatorNewsDescription: “The Gaming Pitch Competition embodies the spirit of discovery found at SXSW Gaming. By bringing the best ideas in game development together in a unique environment featuring both industry coaching and fan feedback, the…
Prospect: Wallingford to SXSWseattlepi.com (blog)There is an alien world in western Wallingford. Co-writer/director team Chris Caldwell and Zeek Earl, along with producer Brice Budke, created Prospect, a short film that was well-received at SXSW back…
American InnoHundreds of startups invest a lot of time and money hoping to be seen and make connections at South by Southwest every year. Some stroll through meet ups and parties hoping for lighting to…
Hollywood ReporterGLOSSARY The following abbreviations denote the film festival(s) at which a film has screened and/or will be screening: SUND=Sundance, SXSW=South by Southwest, TRIB=Tribeca, CANN=Cannes, VENI=Venice, TELL=Telluride, TIFF=Toronto, NYFF=New … …read more Source:: SXSW News…
12-story SXSW Center to open in downtown AustinCommunity Impact NewspaperSXSW Center, a new 12-story building, under construction at 1400 Lavaca St., Austin, will open in mid-2019. Owned by CZ Properties, an entity linked to SXSW…
HotNewHipHopToday, rapper Yung Gleesh met his maker in a Travis County, Texas courthouse, over charges stemming from an incident at the 2015 edition of the SXSW festival. The Statesman reports that Gleesh has been found…
Rapper who performed at SXSW found guilty of attempted sexual assaultAustin American-StatesmanA Travis County jury found rap artist Yung Gleesh guilty of attempted sexual assault on Friday in connection with an incident when he was…
Star Local Media2. Executive producers on the film were the Duplass Brothers, it was directed by Suzi Yoonessi and stars Charlene deGuzman, Academy Award nominee John Hawkes, and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo. It premiered…
IndieWire“People’s Republic of Desire” won the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at SXSW and the Grand Jury Award for International Documentary at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, in addition to awards…
Austin American-StatesmanWashington D.C. rap artist Yung Gleesh appeared in a Travis County courtroom Tuesday as the defendant in a sexual assault trial in which a woman said she awoke from a night of celebration during…
Austin American-StatesmanRapper Yung Gleesh is scheduled to appear in a Travis County courtroom Tuesday as the defendant in a sexual assault trial related to an incident that occurred when he was in town to perform…
Brooklyn VeganThe band will be heading to the U.S. in March for SXSW and will also play shows a few shows outside of Austin as well, so far announcing NYC (Elsewhere Zone One on March…
The CEO Magazine (blog)More than 2,000 attendees and 100 speakers from 30 different countries gathered in Stockholm in September for the second incarnation of me Convention. The Convention is a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and South…
The Scope Weekly (blog)As we take one step closer to SXSW 2019 – including a giant leap into more programming announcements coming later this month – get to know the following industry pioneers and forward-thinking…
Traverse City Record EagleThe Detroit-based Opnr and Michigan House will join forces to solicit applications and electronic press kits, with a panel of music industry veterans and professional musicians eventually choosing 10 Michigan acts to…
Cashbox Magazine CanadaSubmitted to Cashbox Canada. New York, October 24 – Find a van. Drive to upstate New York. Record a new album in two days. Eat tuna sandwiches. Swap the tuna with hummus. Too…
HollandSentinel.comThe Detroit-based Opnr and Michigan House will join forces to solicit applications and electronic press kits, with a panel of music industry veterans and professional musicians eventually choosing 10 Michigan acts to perform at Austin’s…
The Music NetworkSouth By Southwest 2019 has announced eight Australian and New Zealand speakers. They join a list of 600 from around the world. The eight were chosen from submissions to the PanelPicker app, voted…
SXSW 2019 Registration Rates Go Up In 2 Dayshypebot.comSXSW 2019 Registration Rates Go Up In 2 Days · Sxsw-2019 Rates to attend any and all of the SXSW 2019 conferences take another $100 jump this…
DeadlineSeville International said Tuesday it will sell international rights at the upcoming American Film Market to Advantages of Traveling by Train, the upcoming Spanish comedic horror pic being directed by Aritz Moreno and written by…
TheWrap“Unlovable” is directed by Suzi Yoonessi and produced by Jay and Mark Duplass under their Duplass Brothers Productions label. It premiered at SXSW and won the SXSW Gamechanger Special Jury Recognition Award. The project first…
Hello Asia! (blog)The South by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW) has announced an initial list of the Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 2019 event. Each year, the Austin based festival hosts a curated mix…
The Daily HodlSouth by Southwest (SXSW), an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, music festivals and tech conferences, rolled out their lineup for next year’s event. The 2019 SXSW Conference announced more than 600 confirmed…
Learn by Design Competition Returns to SXSW EDU 2019DexignerThe third annual Learn by Design competition returns to SXSW EDU, which will be held March 4-7, 2019 in Austin, Texas. This competition celebrates the collaboration of…
Built In AustinYou know that feeling when it’s September and stores are already starting to display Christmas lights and elf decorations? That’s sort of how we felt when we heard SXSW had already released the…
Marijuana MomentSouth by Southwest (SXSW) has announced its conference sessions for next year’s festival, and this time the annual Austin gathering has boosted its marijuana panel selections bigtime. With over 20 different cannabis events, attendees…
M MagazineDrahla, Ezra Collective, Flohio (pictured) and Her’s are among the UK artists who have been selected to perform at the 2019 edition of SXSW in Austin, Texas. They will be joined by a raft…
Innovation OriginsThe winners of the Brabant Startup Awards – an event of Innovation Origins with the support of the Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij BOM – present themselves on Monday in front of a delegation from the…
Music Feeds18 Australian acts have been named on the lineup for Texas’ South By Southwest (SXSW) music conference, which will return to Austin in March 2019. The likes of Amyl & The Sniffers, Bloods, The…
