Texas and South by Southwest 2003 Film Featival |
Award-winning film “The Journey,” honored by the 2003 South by Southwest
Film Conference and
Festival (SXSW) as one of the Top 10 Most Memorable Films in
its 10-year history, will embark on
a 30-city, 41-stop college tour presented by Sprite in April,
Journey Productions, Inc. announced at SXSW.
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"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike,
and all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." -John Steinbeck |
The film, which premiered at SXSW in 2001, follows the adventures of
four young people who pile into a
bus to search for life’s wisdom and meaning. This team of eager travelers
meandered across the country,
from Atlanta, Ga., to Seattle, Wash., shot 500 hours of footage and
interviewed more than 200 people in
search of wisdom and inspiration from the famous and not so famous
Lubbock Lights previewed
at the SWSW Fest...it is a
documentary directed by Amy Maner of 289 Films, Lubbock Lights explores the music, history and culture of the Texas Panhandle, and features interviews and the music of the Flatlanders and other contemporary artists, as well as archives of legends such as Buddy Holly, Stubbs and Waylon Jennings. |
The one and only Flatlanders when we caught their show in Hollywood, CA |
Academy Award-Nominated and Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker, Liz Garbus,
brought
new film, GIRLHOOD, to SxSW, for US Premiere in Documentary
Competition.
GIRLHOOD tells two coming-of-age stories from the real America:
Shanae, ten years old
when she was gang-raped by five boys, responded by drinking and drugging,
and then
graduated to murder, with the stabbing death of a friend, at age 11.
Megan, whose mother
abandoned her to turn tricks to support her ravaging heroin addiction,
ran away from ten
different foster homes before being arrested for attacking another
foster child with a box
cutter. Both girls ended up in the Waxter Juvenile Facility,
home to Maryland's most
violent juvenile offenders. It is here that their journeys really begin.
did not win an award
but we think the subject
very interesting and wanted to give meniton. Mama/M.A.M.A. is a
groundbreaking film that examines Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a bizarre
form of sup-
The film scrutinizes the
scientific research surrounding the allegation and, in so doing, questions
the very diagnosis
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ssssMunchausenMovie.com. |
NARRATIVE FEATURES
Jury Award for Narrative Feature:
Special Jury Award for Narrative Feature:
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature:
Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature:
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS Jury Award for Best Documentary Short:
Special Jury Award for Documentary Short:
ANIMATED SHORTS Jury Award for Best Animated Short:
Special Jury Award for Animated Short:
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EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
Jury Award for Best Experimental Short:
Special Jury Award for Experimental Short:
MUSIC VIDEO Jury Award for Best Music Video:
Special Jury Award for Music Video:
AUDIENCE AWARDS Narrative Feature:
Narrative First Film:
Documentary Feature:
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Dir: Ron Mann has called it "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test on tofu" It Features Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson and follows
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