The audience award winners have been announced for this year’s SXSW festival, which is wrapping up today. Shawn Christensen‘s Before I Disappear won for the Narrative Feature Competition and Diana Whitten‘s Vessel picked up the award for Documentary Competition.
Below the jump you’ll find capsule reviews for three of the shorts we checked out at this year’s SXSW Festival. The films are Chocolate Heart directed by Harrison Atkins, Random Stop directed by Benjamin
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Release Date: TBD
Director: Christian Larson
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
There’s no doubt that it has to be a great feeling to go out on top and on your own terms. The
The film awards at SXSW took place tonight, with the announcement of this year’s jury prize winners. Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers won the Grand Jury Prize for their narrative feature Fort Tilden and director Margaret Brown won the Grand Jury Prize
A new trailer has been released for the upcoming 2014 edition of The Disposable Film Festival, which celebrates artistic creativity with non-professional cameras. The festival, which began in 2007, will showcase plenty of short films, panels, and workshops over three days in
The first poster has been unveiled for The Mule, one of the oddest sounding movies to premiere at this year’s SXSW Festival. Co-written and Co-starring Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious, Cooties), the film tells the true story of a man who becomes a
Tribeca announced the full lineup for its Midnight, Spotlight, Storyscapes, and Special Screenings programming today, with a ridiculous number of great looking films to look forward to. The standout, of course, is Zombeavers, but take a look at the full list after
The first teaser trailer has been released for Leigh Janiak‘s upcoming thriller Honeymoon, which revolves around two newlyweds who head to a remote cabin to celebrate their nuptials only to find something very sinister is afoot. Harry Treadaway and Rose Leslie star.
A new trailer has been released for the upcoming musical horror film Stage Fright, which is set to make its premiere next week at SXSW as part of its Midnighters lineup. The film takes place at a music camp where a series
Premiering at this year’s SXSW Festival, the documentary The Great Invisible takes a look at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the various forms of devastation it left in its wake. Directed by Margaret Brown, the film explores the cause of the
Deadline posted a new teaser trailer for Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer‘s upcoming horror flick Starry Eyes, which is making its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Festival. This terrifying looking body horror flick stars Alexandra Essoe, Amanda Fuller,
The first wave of films has been announced for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, with the Narrative and Documentary Feature competition titles and the out of competition Viewpoints titles being released.
The 13th edition of the festival will feature 87 full-length films,
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Release Date: February 28, 2014 (Limited)
Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
MPAA Rating: PG
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
There’s a certain charm that comes from hand-drawn animation.
The folks over at Badass Digest posted up the newly released poster for Nacho Vigalondo‘s (Timecrimes) upcoming thriller Open Windows, which it set to have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Festival.
The film stars Elijah Wood and
Tribeca announced today that the opening night film for its 2014 festival will be Time is Illmatic, a documentary about rapping legend Nas. The film will premiere Wednesday, April 16 and feature a special performance by Nas where he’ll perform his breakthrough
Here we have the trailer for Yakona, one of the latest additions to the SXSW Festival as part of their Visions programming. The film looks to be one part nature doc and one part history lesson, showing us the memories of the
