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Ahead of the head of the world premiere at SXSW Film & TV Festival, here is the festival official trailer for This World is Not My Own, an innovative documentary that traces the lifespan of artist Nellie Mae Rowe, exploring the personal and political events that shaped her singular body of work.
Sister & Sister (Las hijas), the debut feature by Panamanian-Costa Rican writer-director Kattia G. Zúñiga, will have its world premiere in the Global section at the 2023 edition of the SXSW Film Festival, taking place March 10-19, in Austin, Texas.
Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and the segregated south – it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe.
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the second wave of the 2023 Film & TV Festival Lineup, including all Visions, Global, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections. The Festival also announced that Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef will be the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.
Paramount debuted the official trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the action adventure film based on the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant,
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, directed and co-written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley will open the 30th edition of the SXSW Film & TV Festival taking place March 10-19, 2023. In the film a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. The movie brings the rich world and playful spirit of the legendary roleplaying game to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, and Hugh Grant.
The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the Film Festival will now be called the Film & TV Festival, to reflect the event’s long standing and deep programming of episodics in the screening program, Film & TV tracks, and Keynote and Featured Speaker sessions in the Conference.
SXSW Film Festival announced the Audience Award winners of the 29th edition of the festival. The Audience Awards follow the previously-announced 2022 Jury Awards and the 40 Years of Massive Talent Award presented to Nicolas Cage at The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent screening on Saturday night.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired the documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker — Featuring Brandi Carlile directed by Kathlyn Horan (The If Project) which world premiered at South by Southwest film festival.
South by Southwest (SXSW) announced the 2022 Jury and Special Award winners of the 29th SXSW Film Festival.
Check out the first clip from Jethica, a supernatural dark comedy shot in New Mexico in January 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, and world premiering at SXSW in the Visions section. Jethica boldly blends and bends genres, all at once shining as a sharp comedy and dire stalker thriller with an undead edge.
After world premiering at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Colombian director Augusto Sandino’s second feature film A Vanishing Fog (Entre la niebla) will make its much-anticipated North American Premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. The film will premiere in the Visions category for risk-taking artists in the new cinema landscape who defy traditional categorization in documentary and narrative filmmaking.