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7:15pm

SXEncore: The Way We Get By
    Friday March 9, 2012 7:15pm - 8:39pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    *SXSW 2012 SXEncore screenings were determined by popular vote on Tugg.com. "The Way We Get By" is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters-- a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. More important, regardless of your politics, "The Way We Get By" celebrates three unsung heroes who share their love with strangers who need and deserve it.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12644


9:15pm

SXEncore: Motherland
    Friday March 9, 2012 9:15pm - 10:35pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    *SXSW 2012 SXEncore screenings were determined by popular vote on Tugg.com. The award-winning documentary film Motherland explores the timeless subjects of grief and healing through the story of a very unique journey. Six women from the US, all of whom have experienced a devastating loss, travel together to South Africa to work as volunteers. In Africa, where the AIDS epidemic leaves no one without a story of loss, the women learn how solidarity and shared suffering promote healing and grace. The film focuses specifically on the grieving processes of these six women, however its lessons are universal— ultimately, it is a heartwarming story about resilience and triumph of the human spirit.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12975


 
 

11:30am

Sunset Strip
    Saturday March 10, 2012 11:30am - 1:04pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    Birthed as a dusty trading route at the turn of last century, Sunset Strip became the world's center of gravity for music, glamour, fashion, sex, and decadence. This curvy, mile-and-a-half strip of road falls just outside LA city limits, beyond the reach of LAPD, where it grew into a place like no other on the planet. A place where dreams are started, chased, loved, hated, displayed, ignored, ended, or all of the above. You make your last stand in Eden, and this is Eden.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12473


1:45pm

Charles Bradley: Soul of America
    Saturday March 10, 2012 1:45pm - 2:59pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    "Charles Bradley: Soul of America" captures the extraordinary late in life rise of 62 year old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album, "No Time For Dreaming," took him from a hard life of poverty, homelessness and tragedy and rocketed him onto Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 albums of 2011. This documentary follows Charles from his 62nd birthday through the electrifying and transformative months leading up to his unprecedented debut, world tour and ultimate triumph over an impossible dream 48 years in the making.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12696


4:00pm

Thale
    Saturday March 10, 2012 4:00pm - 5:17pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    Next up from the Norwegian folklore is ”Thale”, revolving the mythical hulder, a tailed, female forest creature. “Thale” is the story of a certain hulder, found by two crimes scene cleaners in a concealed cellar. The creature never utters a word, unable to tell her tale herself, but the pieces of the puzzle soon come together; She's been kept down here for decades, for reasons soon to surface. Someone is approaching from outside. They want her back.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12948


6:00pm

Pompeya

9:00pm

Just Like Being There
    Saturday March 10, 2012 9:00pm - 10:38pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    In the gig poster community, artists such as Daniel Danger and Jay Ryan prove that creating this artwork is a way of life, more than just a career. These artists are at the forefront of an expansion of the gig poster genre. MONDO's reinvigoration of "the film poster as an art form," and Gallery 1988’s theme based exhibits are only two ways in which this artwork is reaching a greater public. In a community with strong roots, dating back to the 1960s, this expansion is controversial- refreshing to some, sacrilegious to others.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12849


 
 

11:15am

Wildness
    Sunday March 11, 2012 11:15am - 12:29pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, "Wildness" is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a weekly party (organized by Director Wu Tsang, DJs NGUZUNGUZU, and Total Freedom) called Wildness explodes into creativity and conflict. What does “safe space” mean? Who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers creates coalitions across generations.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12921


1:15pm

Hard Labor

3:45pm

¡Vivan las Antipodas!
    Sunday March 11, 2012 3:45pm - 5:29pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. Kossakovsky’s movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! – Long Live The Antipodes! Presented with the support of AMBULANTE
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12496


6:15pm

King Kelly
    Sunday March 11, 2012 6:15pm - 7:39pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her best friend Jordan embark on an epic whirlwind of drugs, sex, violence and mischief-making as Kelly tries to reclaim what's hers. Kelly’s biggest online fan, a wayward State Trooper, joins the journey as the night spirals into chaos. Made entirely from camera-phone footage, "King Kelly" is a sensational journey through hedonistic American youth culture and the YouTube generation.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12738


8:15pm

BIJUKA

10:30pm

Girl Model
    Sunday March 11, 2012 10:30pm - 11:47pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. "Girl Model" follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley’s initial discovery of Nadya, the two rarely meet again, but their stories are inextricably bound.

    The Austin Chronicle recommends this event in "The Place Is the Thing:  The influence of Geography in a Quartet of Docs." Read the full feature here.


    Type Film, Screening
    Info Y
    Tags AustinChronicle
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13050


 
 

11:15am

Sun Don't Shine
    Monday March 12, 2012 11:15am - 12:37pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    "Sun Don't Shine" is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audley) on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida. As the couple travels up the Gulf Coast the disturbing details of their excursion gradually begin to emerge, revealing Crystal’s sinister past and the couple’s troubling future.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12914


1:15pm

Her Master's Voice
    Monday March 12, 2012 1:15pm - 2:14pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing. The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of the mind allowing access to spontaneity and imagination. Acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven', the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her traveling partners along the way, and through them deconstructs both herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12820


3:15pm

GLOBAL HOME
    Monday March 12, 2012 3:15pm - 4:47pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    Director Eva Stotz visited interesting people all over the world, whom she found through online host networks, emerging for a limited time in their everyday life. The film introduces a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wildlife enthusiast in Tokyo, an ecologist in the Palestinian West Bank, a dancemaniac in Turkey, and a visionary in the US. In doing so, the film explores a thrilling new way of traveling. Presented with the support of German Films
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12940


5:30pm

Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir
    Monday March 12, 2012 5:30pm - 6:32pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pets, found toys, kitchen percussions and Casio keyboards. Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is her name, and before long the Icelandic/Danish musician became an adored cult figure in the Icelandic music scene. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm "Grandma Lo-fi" is a cinematic tribute to her boundless creativity, created by three musicians and artists whom she has inspired.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12798


7:30pm

Leave Me Like You Found Me

9:45pm

Daylight Savings
    Monday March 12, 2012 9:45pm - 10:58pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (playing himself) is at the height of his career. With a national tour on the horizon and one of his songs being featured in a widely-seen TV commercial, Goh has the life he always wanted. But when an unexpected breakup occurs, a lost and devastated Goh forces himself to leave it all behind and hit the road with his irresponsible cousin to pursue a promising rebound with fellow musician Yea-Ming Chen (playing herself). This pseudo–sequel to the 2011 SXSW hit "Surrogate Valentine" stands on its own as a completely new adventure.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12713


 
 

11:30am

Vivan las Antipodas
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 11:30am - 1:14pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. Kossakovsky’s movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! – Long Live The Antipodes! Presented with the support of AMBULANTE
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12896


2:00pm

Chronicle of Oldrich S.

2:00pm

Doctor Rao

2:00pm

SXGlobal Shorts
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 2:00pm - 3:31pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    Chronicle of Oldrich S. (Czech Republic) Director: Rudolf Smid Mr. Sedlacek wrote one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005, everyday stories of his life, his village, and of international events. This animated documentary is based on 80 of those entries. The Contest (Poland) Director: Jakub Cuman Observational documentary made during the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Preliminaries in 2010. The Contract (Sweden) Director: Lina Mannheimer On the 5th of May 2005, Beverly Charpentier declares an oath of allegiance to Catherine Robbe-Grillet. Hereby she gives up her freedom, for the rest of her life. Doctor Rao (Germany) Directors: Alexej Tchernyi, Wu Zhi Doctor Rao passed away. Family and friends are celebrating his last journey. The Little Team (Spain) Directors: Roger Gómez, Daniel Resines Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups. The Perfect Fit (Scotland, UK) Director: Tali Yankelevich Ballet shoes may be worn by delicate girls, but they’re crafted by burly men... Walt Disney Square (Brazil) Directors: Renata Pinheiro, Sergio Oliveira A “quasi-musical” approach to contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12959


2:00pm

The Contest

2:00pm

The Contract

2:00pm

The Little Team

2:00pm

The Perfect Fit
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 2:00pm - 3:31pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    “Ballet dancers get dodgy feet from dancing and I get dodgy hands from making their shoes!” Ballet shoes may be worn by delicate girls, but they’re crafted by burly men whose hands tell another story... We delve into the world of professional ballet dancing seen through the eyes of a shoemaker who desperately strives to save the dancer as much pain as possible by making the shoes as well as he can. Meanwhile, a seasoned dancer talks of the pain she went through dancing at the highest level. An undiscovered world behind the pomp and perfection.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13460


2:00pm

Walt Disney Square

4:15pm

The Will
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 4:15pm - 5:41pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    Henrik is in deep trouble. His girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he's deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is opened when Henrik’s wealthy grandfather dies, leaving behind him a huge fortune. But at the promise of money, family war breaks out, and years of failure and betrayal are revealed. Presented with the support of the Danish Film Institute
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13043


6:45pm

Cubaton - El Medico Story

9:00pm

Mustafa's Sweet Dreams
 
 

11:30am

Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 11:30am - 12:32pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pets, found toys, kitchen percussions and Casio keyboards. Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is her name, and before long the Icelandic/Danish musician became an adored cult figure in the Icelandic music scene. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm "Grandma Lo-fi" is a cinematic tribute to her boundless creativity, created by three musicians and artists whom she has inspired.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12801


1:30pm

Vivan las Antipodas
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 1:30pm - 3:14pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. Kossakovsky’s movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! – Long Live The Antipodes! Presented with the support of AMBULANTE
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12899


4:00pm

King Kelly
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 4:00pm - 5:24pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her best friend Jordan embark on an epic whirlwind of drugs, sex, violence and mischief-making as Kelly tries to reclaim what's hers. Kelly’s biggest online fan, a wayward State Trooper, joins the journey as the night spirals into chaos. Made entirely from camera-phone footage, "King Kelly" is a sensational journey through hedonistic American youth culture and the YouTube generation.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12741


4:00pm

Buzz Screenings presented by Tugg.com

7:00pm

Her Master's Voice
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 7:00pm - 7:59pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing. The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of the mind allowing access to spontaneity and imagination. Acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven', the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her traveling partners along the way, and through them deconstructs both herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12821


9:15pm

The Will
    Wednesday March 14, 2012 9:15pm - 10:41pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    Henrik is in deep trouble. His girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he's deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is opened when Henrik’s wealthy grandfather dies, leaving behind him a huge fortune. But at the promise of money, family war breaks out, and years of failure and betrayal are revealed. Presented with the support of the Danish Film Institute
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13044


 
 

11:15am

BIJUKA

1:30pm

Cubaton - El Medico Story

3:45pm

Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir
    Thursday March 15, 2012 3:45pm - 4:47pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pets, found toys, kitchen percussions and Casio keyboards. Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is her name, and before long the Icelandic/Danish musician became an adored cult figure in the Icelandic music scene. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm "Grandma Lo-fi" is a cinematic tribute to her boundless creativity, created by three musicians and artists whom she has inspired.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13018


5:30pm

Electrick Children
    Thursday March 15, 2012 5:30pm - 7:06pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)

    Pregnant by music? On her 15th birthday, Rachel, a young Mormon girl from a fundamentalist Utah community, discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, she has a miraculous experience and three months later, claims to have had an immaculate conception from listening to the music. Her parents arrange a marriage, but Rachel runs away to the closest city, Las Vegas, to search for the man who sings on the tape, thinking he has something to do with her mysterious pregnancy...
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13665


7:45pm

Pompeya

10:00pm

Compliance
    Thursday March 15, 2012 10:00pm - 11:30pm @ Violet Crown 2 (434 W 2nd St)
    When a police officer tells you to do something, you do it. Right? On a busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that a pretty young employee, Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's doing the right thing, Sandra commences the investigation, following instructions from the officer on the line, no matter how invasive they become. As we watch, we ask ourselves: “Why don’t they just say no?” and perhaps more troubling, "Am I certain I wouldn't do the same?" Inspired by true events.
    Type Film, Screening
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS13060


 
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