South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Right as the Trump Administration began locking down on visa availability and travel to and from Cuba, Cuban singing group “Vocal Vidas”, an all female quartet, was invited to play their first series of shows in the United States. As their celebratory, effusive joy crosses our borders, the [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Directed by Brad Lichtenstein with Snoop Dogg on board as one of its Executive Producers, When Claude Got Shot (2021) offers continued education on the Black experience with the justice system, persistent segregation that leads to lack of opportunity during important developmental years, and how this segregation intrinsically [...]

Welcome to part 2 of our coverage of the SXSW Online 2021 Music Video Competition, in which we'll be discussing this year's submissions through lightning-fast mini-reviews. Most of these videos are already available online and are not debuting at the festival, so if you want to want to experience these music videos for yourself feel [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Director/co-writer Tristan Kim's short film Run That Shit! is quite a trip...to the chamber pot. A dark comedy centered around one night of theft, poop, and murder, Run That Shit! is making its Texas premiere at SXSW Online 2021 within the "Midnight Shorts" category. Run That Shit! follows [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - As part of the SXSW Online 2021 lineup of "Episodic Premieres" -- episodes from series set to begin airing soon -- the first episode of Hulu's new docu-series, Sasquatch (2021), will be making its world premiere. Put together by docu-series veterans Joshua Rofé (directing), the Duplass Brothers (executive [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Subservient church mouse wife Anne (Barbara Crampton) has spent the last 30 years losing herself. Her husband, Pastor Jakob (Larry Fessenden) is as old school as they get - believing women have a place in the home, that no one should take the lord’s name in vain, that [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - In August of 2018, actress Selma Blair was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. In October of 2018 she took to social media, and told the world about her disease. With humor, and levity, she shared her plight - the realization that years of minor goof ups and weird “oops” [...]