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6:45pm CST

The Red Chapel

A journalist with no scruples, a spastic, and a comedian travel to North Korea with a mission - to challenge the conditions of the smile in one of the world's most notorious regimes. On the pretext of being a small theatre troupe on a cultural exchange visit from Denmark, 'The...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5209

Friday March 12, 2010 6:45pm - 7:45pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:00pm CST

American: The Bill Hicks Story

Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on, as he skewered organized religion, railed against the hypocrisies of his government and exposed the collusion of the mainstream media, earning him...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5121

Friday March 12, 2010 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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12:00pm CST

War Don Don

In the heart of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, United Nations soldiers guard a heavily fortified building known as the 'special court.' Inside, Issa Sesay awaits his trial. Prosecutors say Sesay is a war criminal, guilty of crimes against humanity. His defenders say he is a reluctant fighter who...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5222

Saturday March 13, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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2:30pm CST

Marwencol

A documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and creates...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5170

Saturday March 13, 2010 2:30pm - 3:30pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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5:00pm CST

11/4/08

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, I asked friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become historic before it had even taken place. In this documentary, a global canvas unfolds: in St. Louis and Austin, idealistic volunteers think they can turn...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5116

Saturday March 13, 2010 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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5:00pm CST

Lunch watching TV

A normal day: the eggs, the fries, the beer, the bread, the crisis, the politics, the football... Until something bizarre happens. A historical date. Just another day.Graduated from Madrids Complutense University in Audiovisual Communications in 1999. In 2003 he founded A La Deriva, that produces his fiction, documentary...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5992

Saturday March 13, 2010 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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7:00pm CST

The Thorn in the Heart

Michel Gondry is a filmmaker known for breaking new ground - be it in the world of commercial advertising, directing music videos for the likes of Bjork and The White Stripes, or helming imaginative features like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dave ChapelleÕs Block Party, or the upcoming The...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5214

Saturday March 13, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:30pm CST

Dirty Pictures

DIRTY PICTURES is a documentary about Dr. Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin, the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs. ShulginÕs alchemy has earned him the title 'The Godfather of Psychedelics,' and a reputation as one of the great chemists of the 20th...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5140

Saturday March 13, 2010 9:30pm - 10:30pm CST
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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11:30am CDT

For Once In My Life

"For Once In My Life" is the story of an inspiring group of people and their dream to make music. This documentary film follows the members of the Spirit of Goodwill Band while they prepare for the concert of a lifetime. As they navigate daily life, these twenty-eight musicians and...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5145

Sunday March 14, 2010 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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2:00pm CDT

Camp Victory, Afghanistan

Camp Victory, Afghanistan is a verite documentary that tells the story of several U.S. National Guardsmen stationed in Herat, Afghanistan and the Afghan officers assigned as their mentees. Together they've been tasked with building the 207th Corps of the nascent Afghan National Army into an institution capable of providing stability,...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5130

Sunday March 14, 2010 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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5:00pm CDT

Futurestates

What is the America of the future? In this series of fictional shorts presented by ITVS, different filmmakers examine current events by extrapolating them into the future. By embracing elements of speculative and science fiction, each film creates a fantastic new world to make comment on our own. Mister Green...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5972

Sunday March 14, 2010 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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7:15pm CDT

Pelada

Away from professional stadiums, bright lights, and manicured fields, thereÕs another side of soccer. In the U.S., we call it pick-up. In Brazil, the word is 'pelada,' which literally means 'naked'Ñthe game stripped down to its core. Pelada follows Luke and Gwendolyn, two former soccer stars who didnÕt quite make...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5179

Sunday March 14, 2010 7:15pm - 8:15pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:30pm CDT

Bear Nation

From the director of 'small town gay bar', Bear Nation examines what it means to find community and personal acceptance; told from the viewpoint of a bunch of misfits belonging to a sub-culture within a sub-culture: Bears. Not familiar with gay slang? Bears are hirsute and hefty gay males whose...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5127

Sunday March 14, 2010 9:30pm - 10:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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11:00am CDT

Life 2.0

This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are transformed by a virtual world called Second Life. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars -- digital alter egos that can be manipulated to the heartÕs desire. More than an examination...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5165

Monday March 15, 2010 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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2:30pm CDT

Beijing Taxi

BEIJING TAXI is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays Beijing undergoing a profound transformational arch. Through a humanistic lens, the intimate lives of three taxi drivers connect a morphing city confronted with modern issues and changing values. With diverse imagery combined with a contemporary score rich in atmosphere, we...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5128

Monday March 15, 2010 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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4:30pm CDT

The Canal Street Madam

Until an FBI bust upended her life, Jeanette Maier was a successful New Orleans madam. Her discreet clientele included a number of powerful, high-ranking politicians. The ensuing very public trial - both in the courtroom and in the media - focused salaciously on the fact that Jeanette's brothel was a...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5193

Monday March 15, 2010 4:30pm - 5:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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7:00pm CDT

Title Design Finalist Screening

Monday March 15, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:30pm CDT

Barbershop Punk

Is 'The Man' controlling the vertical, the horizontal and the channel you'll be on? In a privatized American Internet, is big business 'Big Brother' or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand?With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5125

Monday March 15, 2010 9:30pm - 10:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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11:00am CDT

Erasing David

David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear - a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving his pregnant wife...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6287

Tuesday March 16, 2010 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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1:30pm CDT

The Oath

THE OATH tells the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the first man to face the controversial military tribunals. Filmed in Yemen and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, THE OATH is a family drama about two men whose fateful...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6569

Tuesday March 16, 2010 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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4:15pm CDT

Diplomacy

The United States Secretary of State is about to meet the Iranian Foreign Minister in the first high-level diplomatic talks between the two countries in thirty years. Each has an interpreter: on the American side, Michael, a young man of Iranian descent; on the Iranian side, Azar, an equally bilingual...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6265

Tuesday March 16, 2010 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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4:15pm CDT

World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements

World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements is a one-hour film which interweaves the story of public school teacher John Hunter with his studentsÕ participation in an educational exercise that he created entitled the World Peace Game. This interactive experience triggers a transformation of the students from children of a neighborhood...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6633

Tuesday March 16, 2010 4:15pm - 5:15pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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8:00pm CDT

SXSW Film Awards

Tuesday March 16, 2010 8:00pm - 9:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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10:00pm CDT

An Evening with hitRECord.org

A program of short form media created by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's open collaborative production company. Hosted collectively by the hitRECord.org community and featuring live music by hitRECorders Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl of The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/7929

Tuesday March 16, 2010 10:00pm - 11:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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11:30am CDT

Austin School of Film - M.A.F.I.A. screening

Wednesday March 17, 2010 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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1:30pm CDT

The Work of Alan Govenar: Part 2

"Stoney Knows How," GovenarÕs first film completed in 1981, is an inside look at the circus and carnival sideshow from the point of view of Old School tattoo master, Leonard St. Clair, disabled by arthritis at the age of four, who joined the circus as a sword swallower as a...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6044

Wednesday March 17, 2010 1:30pm - 2:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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4:30pm CDT

The Weird World of Blowfly

THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY tells the story of musician Clarence Reid and his alter ego Blowfly, the original dirty rapper. At 69 years-old, with a catalog of the world's raunchiest tunes, Blowfly still records new material and tours the world with his manager and drummer, Tom Bowker. Through their...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6587

Wednesday March 17, 2010 4:30pm - 5:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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7:00pm CDT

The Ride

THE RIDE revolves around the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) circuit, a tour that includes 45 of the worldÕs top riders. The film is bookended with explosive competition footage brimming with hulking bulls, airborne riders, and high-wattage pyrotechnics. Sandwiched in the middle is a journey across the back roads of America...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5210

Wednesday March 17, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:30pm CDT

The Myth of the American Sleepover

Set against the backdrop of mile roads, neighborhood blocks, abandoned factories and lakes which make up Metro-Detroit, this story follows four young people as they search for love and adventure on the last night of summer. Maggie, Rob, Claudia and Scott cross paths as they explore the suburban wonderland chasing...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6568

Wednesday March 17, 2010 9:30pm - 10:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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12:30pm CDT

Bear Nation

From the director of 'small town gay bar', Bear Nation examines what it means to find community and personal acceptance; told from the viewpoint of a bunch of misfits belonging to a sub-culture within a sub-culture: Bears. Not familiar with gay slang? Bears are hirsute and hefty gay males whose...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6204

Thursday March 18, 2010 12:30pm - 1:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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2:45pm CDT

Barbershop Punk

Is 'The Man' controlling the vertical, the horizontal and the channel you'll be on? In a privatized American Internet, is big business 'Big Brother' or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand?With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6201

Thursday March 18, 2010 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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4:45pm CDT

This Movie Is Broken

Unbelievable: Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight -- tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens,...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/8065

Thursday March 18, 2010 4:45pm - 5:45pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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7:00pm CDT

Earthling

Judith is a teacher going through a crisis. She can't get pregnant, and it's causing a rift in her life. On an orbital space platform, a crew picks up a strange object during a routine mission. It appears to be a living seed of some sort. One of the astronauts...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6281

Thursday March 18, 2010 7:00pm - 8:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:45pm CDT

Star Wars: Retold

An animated retelling of the original Star Wars trilogy, according to a girl who's never actually watched Star Wars. Her rendition, as pieced together from pop-culture references and Kevin Smith jokes offers a entertaining look at the cultural impact Star Wars has had on both fans and non-fans alike.Director...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6495

Thursday March 18, 2010 9:45pm - 10:45pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:45pm CDT

The People vs. George Lucas

THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS is a no-holds-barred, completely uncensored, yet balanced cultural examination of the conflicted dynamic between the great George Lucas and his fans over the past three decades. Chock-full of impassioned interviews, stop-motion and 3D animation, Super 8 action figure films, puppet rants and many other surprises,...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6578

Thursday March 18, 2010 9:45pm - 10:45pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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12:00pm CDT

TAQWACORE: The Birth of Punk Islam

Taqwacore chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. It was inspired by the work of Michael Knight, who converted to Islam in rebellion against his white-supremacist father. He went on to pen the novel The Taqwacores (a term combining the Muslim concept of God consciousness with hardcore punk),...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6512

Friday March 19, 2010 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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2:45pm CDT

No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

Steve James (HOOP DREAMS) returns to his hometown of Hampton, Virginia to examine the 1993 bowling alley brawl that landed Allen Iverson, the nationÕs top high-school basketball player, in jail and divided the community along racial lines. A Kartemquin Films production for ESPN Films' acclaimed '30 for 30' series.Director...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6419

Friday March 19, 2010 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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5:00pm CDT

11/4/08

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, I asked friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become historic before it had even taken place. In this documentary, a global canvas unfolds: in St. Louis and Austin, idealistic volunteers think they can turn...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6161

Friday March 19, 2010 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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5:00pm CDT

Lunch watching TV

A normal day: the eggs, the fries, the beer, the bread, the crisis, the politics, the football... Until something bizarre happens. A historical date. Just another day.Graduated from Madrids Complutense University in Audiovisual Communications in 1999. In 2003 he founded A La Deriva, that produces his fiction, documentary...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6384

Friday March 19, 2010 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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7:15pm CDT

Some Days are Better than Others

Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven feature-length film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the hard times always seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters that...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6490

Friday March 19, 2010 7:15pm - 8:15pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:30pm CDT

SATURDAY NIGHT

Have you ever wondered how a sketch was chosen for Saturday Night Live? Or why some actors are in more sketches than others? With John Malcovich hosting the episode and unprecedented access to the behind the scenes action, watch as Franco takes an observational approach in documenting what it takes...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6475

Friday March 19, 2010 9:30pm - 10:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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2:30pm CDT

Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

In Ain't in It for My Health, Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever-growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6172

Saturday March 20, 2010 2:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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5:00pm CDT

Ride, Rise, Roar

RIDE, RISE, ROAR is a David Byrne concert film that blends riveting onstage performances with intimate details of the creative collaborations that make the music and performance happen. Shot with multiple cameras over several concerts during the 08/09 tour, the film blends the energy and charisma of classic Talking Heads...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/6469

Saturday March 20, 2010 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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9:00pm CDT

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the hitRECord.org Spring Spectacular!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt curates and hosts an evening of short films, live entertainment and collaborative RECording. Featuring a performance by hitRECorders Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl of The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. hitRECord.org is a mass collaborative production company led by its founder, creative director and...
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/7927

Saturday March 20, 2010 9:00pm - 10:00pm CDT
G-Tech 501 East 4th St.

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