Houston rapper and Multi-SXSW Alumnus Bun B sent us this picture of himself representing hip-hop at the Democratic Convention in Denver. Wonder how many other rappers not only made the effort, but also got credentials!
Original post by melissa
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Notes.
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Our little hootenanny called SXSW gets written about a lot, which goes with the territory when hundreds of music scribes are part of the equation. However, we’ve seldom been compared to political conventions before this week. First, an article by Ben Sisario in the NY Times cites us as the first calendar-notation-worthy event in a musical year that sees many artists attending the DNC.
Continuing on in this vein, Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla uses SXSW as a frame of reference in his first bloggy dispatch from Denver for Rolling Stone. His relevant point is that free drinks are more prevalent in Denver, as are black helicopters and omnipresent security. We’ll take that as a compliment. Heck, we might even generate a slogan from this. Maybe “SXSW, Black Helicopter-Free Since 1987″ or “SXSW, Mellower Than A City Full Of Democrats.” Let’s see what the boss thinks of those.
Photo of Chris Walla, by Autumn de Wilde, courtesy of our pals at Barsuk
Original post by andy
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Notes.
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Original post by jill
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Daily Chord.
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Thomas Logoreci was a writer and actor in the very well received short film A Day’s Work, at last year’s SXSW Film Festival. SXSW’s Lya Guerra catches up with him and finds out what he’s doing when he’s not winning awards or programming shorts for a festival in Albania, and makes him choose between his life’s passions.
1. What’s going on with the life of A Day’s Work? A Day’s Work has gone on to a number of other festivals. But myself and Ed were most pleased by winning the grand jury prize at the SF Shorts fest here in our hometown of San Francisco a few weekends back.
2. Okay, you write and act. You have to choose one, which would it be?
If I had to chose one, I’d probably go with writing. Though last year, after we shot ‘Day’s Work’, I went down to Albania and worked on that country’s most expensive film to date - Fatmir Koci’s Time of the Comet. I played a small role as a bandit in the film (in the photo I’m the one on the left).
3. You also program films for a film festival in Albania. What kind of festival is it and how to you find films to fit it?
The Tirana Intl. Film Fest is a mostly shorts fest that also honors several world-renowned filmmakers by showing a number of their features.
Luckily this year, owing to ‘Day’s Work’, I’ve seen a number of the best shorts from around the world. My main task now is to contact all these filmmakers and book their small masterpieces into the Tirana fest.
The Albanian capital, Tirana, has only two theaters for its population of one point two million. So people are starved for good movies. Maybe it’s a holdover from Albania’s time as socialist republic but it makes me kinda glad that the festival charges no admission.
4. Any new productions in the works?
Right now I’m wrapping up editing on a decade-long project chronicling the Olympia, Washington music scene. The feature is called Try This at Home. It’s culled from over 150 hours of tape and features talk and performances from Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney and Negativland among others.
Original post by jarod
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Reel Talks.
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