A Puff Before Dying premiered at SXSW Online 2021 as part of the Midnight Shorts Competition. It was directed by Mike Pinkney and Michael Reich and is presented by the Bob Baker Marionette Theater-- that alone should tell you this one's going to be weird! A Puff Before Dying is a spoof on all those [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - March 2020. A lifetime ago. Exactly one year ago. The month most of us stateside saw the world as we know it crash into millions of little pieces, littered amongst paper masks and rubber gloves. The day before lockdown hits type-A personality Leah (Ali Vingiano), not knowing what [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Written and directed by Jan Van Dyck, The Nipple Whisperer (2021) is an avant-garde, English/French-language short film that will be screening as part of SXSW Online 2021's short film lineup. The Nipple Whisperer seems like a straightforward, straight-laced movie, with all the trappings of a well-produced and directed, [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - The Thing That Ate The Birds premiered as part of the Midnight Shorts collection at SXSW Online 2021 and was made possible by ALTER, the new horror division of independent studio Gunpowder & Sky. As a side note, horror fans will want to keep an eye on the ALTER [...]

SXSW 2021 Screening - Violation is the most shocking movie to come out of Sundance in years. Why? Well, in short; it dares to go to the darkest moments, show them, graphically depict them, and worse, have us relate to them. Sisters Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) and Greta (Anna Maguire) spend a fateful weekend at a [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference has announced its initial wave of featured speakers and conference sessions along with legendary musician, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Willie Nelson, as the Keynote. The festival will take place online this year and boasts a robust lineup of conference sessions, music festival showcases, film festival screenings, world-class networking, making SXSW an [...]

Ennio Ruschetti—who is perhaps best known as serving in the Art Department for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (2015)—has been directing his own short films during the past few years, one of his most recent being Hand in Hand. His own flair for interesting stories is on full display in this horror-comedy. Just as Luis Buñuel explores [...]