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NewsMark Duplass to give SXSW keynote
Mark Duplass has been confirmed as one of four daily keynote speakers at SXSW.
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NewsScreen Media finds Faults
Snoot Entertainment’s thriller premiered at SXSW and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Leland Orser.
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NewseOne picks up Take Care
eOne Films has acquired North American rights to the SXSW rom-com and plans a late 2014 theatrical release.
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NewsRADiUS takes The Great Invisible
The distributor has acquired US rights to Participant Media’s documentary about the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on Gulf communities.
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NewsRADiUS-TWC boards Creep
The New York-based distributor has partnered with the Duplass Brothers and Blumhouse Productions on a trilogy after the film’s recent debut at SXSW.
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NewsSXSW announces audience winners
Shawn Christensen’s Before I Disappear has won (15) the 2014 SXSW narrative feature audience award, while Diana Whitten’s Vessel triumphed in the documentary section.
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NewsVeronica Mars tops SXSW buzz chart
INFOGRAPHIC: Research reveals online activity around the festival, which also saw positive buzz for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Bad Neighbours and Frank.
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NewsTwo killed in SXSW car crash
UPDATE: Police have confirmed that two people - one from the Netherlands - died after a car drove into a crowd of pedestrians at the South By Southwest festival.
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NewsFort Tilden wins top SXSW award
Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ comedy earned the narrative feature competition grand jury prize while Margaret Brown’s Deepwater Horizon disaster film The Great Invisible prevailed in the documentary section.
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NewseOne, El Rey cut deals on Dusk
Robert Rodriguez’s new US-based cable network El Rey Network and eOne Television have struck a slew of digital deals on From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, set to receive its broadcast premiere on Tuesday night (11).
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NewsSnowden warns of government threat
Google and the government were in the crosshairs as whistleblower Edward Snowden made a rare public appearance on Monday (10) to address the SXSW conference from exile in Russia – ironically using Google+ Hangouts.
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NewsLionsgate believes in Exists
The studio has picked up North American rights at SXSW to Eduard Sanchez’s Bigfoot film, which International Film Trust handles for international sales.
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NewsSPWA, Picturehouse, Starz Digital take SXSW trio
UPDATE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has acquired all international rights to Space Station 76, while in separate deals Picturehouse has acquired The Guest and Starz Digital Media has taken North American rights to To Be Takei ahead of their Austin screenings.
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NewsVimeo unveils $10m distribution fund
The video platform will promote a $10m investment at SXSW on the anniversary of its Vimeo On Demand platform.
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NewsVisit takes SXSW entry Long Distance
Visit Films will present the world premiere of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s first feature Long Distance (formerly 10,000KM) at SXSW.
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NewsSXSW unveils conference line-up
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 director Marc Webb will deliver the fourth keynote address at SXSW on March 8 as organisers also announced the complete conference line-up.
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NewsShoreline visits The Infinite Man
EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Sullivan’s debut feature world premieres at next month’s SXSW.
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NewsMagnet Releasing gets Stage Fright
Jerome Sable’s horror musical will open in the US after its world premiere in the Midnighters section at SXSW.
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NewsSXSW unveils Midnighters, shorts
SXSW top brass have announced the Midnighters and short film line-ups, set to screen when the festival runs in Austin, Texas, from March 7-15.
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NewsSXSW unveils 2014 line-up
Headliners strand includes first screenings of the upcoming Universal comedy Neighbors (pictured) starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron and Australian time-travel thriller Predestination with Ethan Hawke.