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SXSW: Voter Technology Panel – One Sided View on Voting Tech
“Voter Technology: A Reimagined Future”, a presentation at South by Southwest (SXSW), focused on bringing election technology into the 21st Century. SXSW is an annual film, music, and technology...
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SXSW, Athena Film Festival Review: ‘Trapped’
A prayer circle for strength and God’s protection, outside a women’s healthcare clinic that was threatened in ‘Trapped.’ Photo from the film. “The pro-life God has won already!” declaims a protestor...
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SXSW: Virtual and Augmented Reality Checks
This year, for the first time, a visitor to South by Southwest (SXSW), an annual film, technology and music event in Austin, Texas, could get a reality check. The new VR/AR Track included more than a...
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SXSW: Rami Malek and Christian Slater Get Authentic on ‘Mr. Robot’
Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater joined series creator Sam Esmail at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film panel “Coding on Camera: MR. ROBOT and Authenticity on TV.” SXSW, an annual film,...
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SXSW: The Mars Virtual Reality Experience – More Than a Game
There’s an old expression for when something is not difficult: “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.” But when it comes to creating a virtual reality experience of Mars, it does take a rocket...
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SXSW Film Review: ‘The American Epic Sessions’– An Amazing Journey Through...
Lovers of music and early Americana alike will be fascinated by Bernard McMahon and Allison McGourty’s The American Epic Sessions, made in conjunction with their three-part documentary series, American...
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SXSW Film Review: ‘The Waiting’– James Caan is Haunted and Blood Spills
A film must have strong characters to be remembered. I will remember The Waiting for a long time, not only because of its characters, but because of how well they were used to explore human depravity,...
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SXSW Film Review: ‘Bang! The Bert Berns Story’ Narrated by Steven Van Zandt
Solomon Burke (Everybody Needs Somebody To Love), in ‘Bang! The Bert Berns Story’ World Premiere at SXSW. Photo from the film. One of the most audacious, musically gifted and influential songwriters...
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SXSW: Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News
One of a series exploring VR/AR at SXSWCan news reporters use virtual reality? This is the question that participants at “Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News,” a panel at South by Southwest...
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SXSW Film Review: ‘The Seer’ Produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford
‘The Seer’ directed by Laura Dunn. SXSW Film Festival. Photo by David Peterson. The Seer (awarded the Special Jury Prize at SXSW), directed by Laura Dunn is an inspiring, aesthetically crafted...
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SXSW: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Everywhere, in Everything, and...
Porter Stowell, from IBM, discussed combining Watson with VRSouth by Southwest (SXSW,) the annual Austin TX music, movie, and technology conference, included a track on the new technology of virtual...
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SXSW 2016: Summing Up – and Taking it Home
South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual music, movie, and technology conference that dominates life in Austin each spring, should be on everyone’s bucket list. This year was my third visit to the...
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SXSW Film Reviews: ‘Jack Goes Home’ and ‘My Father Die’
Rory Culkin in Thomas Dekker’s Jack Goes Home. Jack Goes Home Written and directed by Thomas Dekker Starring Rory Culkin, Lin Shaye, Daveigh Chase and Louis Hunter Actor Thomas Dekker’s directorial...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘We Are X,’ Starring X Japan
X Japan in ‘We Are X’ at SXSW (photo courtesy of the film) Like many folks in the US, caught up in niche music and favorite genres, I had never heard of X Japan, the Japanese rock band which has sold...
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SXSW World Premiere: ‘Spettacolo’– Autodrama in Tuscany
Rehearsal by Teatro Povero di Monticchieillo (The Poor Theater of Monticchiello) featured in ‘Spettacolo’ at SXSW (photo from the site) Theater is spectacle. Life is theater. What if both were brought...
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SXSW Music Festival 2017 (Austin, TX): Saturday, March 18 (Garth Brooks LIVE,...
For me, Saturday, March 18, was unofficially Garth Brooks Day at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The great country singer hadn’t performed in the Texas capital in decades, so this SXSW felt...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘Lucky’ – A Harry Dean Stanton Biopic, Sort Of
Lucky, a new film starring veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton (Alien, Big Love), premiered at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, to a crowd of fans, not only of Stanton, but of David Lynch as well....
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SXSW World Premiere: ‘M.F.A.,’ Starring Francesca Eastwood
Francesca Eastwood in ‘M.F.A.’ SXSW World Premiere, Q & A and screening (photo Carole Di Tosti) In M.F.A. incisively directed by Natalia Leite, cogently written by Leah Mckendrick, social...
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SXSW Convergence: Your Brain On Story – Neuroscience+The Moth
People primarily know the SXSW Conference, which takes place annually in Austin, Texas, for its film and music festivals. But, it also delves deeply into related and larger cultural and scientific...
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SXSW World Premiere: Nanfu Wang’s ‘I Am Another You’
Nanfu Wang, SXSW World Premiere, ‘I Am Another You,’ Q and A (photo Carole Di Tosti) Nanfu Wang made history filming Hooligan Sparrow, a documentary about a Chinese activist who is globally renown. The...
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