South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW)

Cannes Interview: David Lowery Talks 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

Writer-director David Lowery has been putting in his 10,000 hours over the past few years, working as an editor and cinematographer on many of his friends' micro-budget projects, as part of the growing multi-tasking barter indie culture. He's helped many of the geographically disparate friends he's ...

CineCoup's Cannes Agenda with Brad Pelman

CineCoup's Brad Pelman, who recently departed Alliance Films as Executive VP, Distribution following the sale of Maple Pictures Corp, a company he co-founded, will be leveraging his international connections at Cannes which include sales agents at Cinetic Media, WME, CAA, UTA, ICM and Submarine.

LatinoBuzz: WTF is Latino at the 2013 LA Film Festival?

The summertime, downtown set, glitzy yet ‘cashz’ LA Film Festival, presented by Film Independent has announced their film lineup today. The verdict on the Latino rep? Compared to the last three festivals I’ve examined this year, Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, LA Film Festival comes through with argua...

Beatles Documentary 'Good ol' Freda' Acquired by Magnolia Pictures

Magnolia Pictures has snagged North American distribution rights to Ryan White's "Good ol' Freda," a documentary that tells the unsung story of Freda Kelly, The Beatles' secretary. Magnolia plans to release the film theatrically later this year.

Listen to Film Critics Take on the World at a Panel from SXSW

Recorded at SXSW 2013 last month, this panel features critics Scott Weinberg and Melissa Hanson, "You're Next" screenwriter Simon Barrett, and film marketer Marian Koltai-Levine.

LatinoBuzz: Our Top Picks From Festival Flicks! You're Welcome!

LatinoBuzz painstakingly selected our personal top picks that we think are a “must-see.” But don't just take our word for it, check out their websites for full listings and see for yourself how fly Latino cinema really is!

SXSW Interview with Hannah Fidell, Lindsay Burdge and Kim Sherman of A Teacher

SXSW Interview with Sini Anderson, Tamra Davis and Kathleen Hanna of The Punk Singer

I can't write about Sini Anderson's great documentary The Punk Singer without mentioning that Kathleen Hanna has been one of my life-long heroes. When I was sixteen a friend gave me my first Bikini Kill CD, I had never heard anything like it, and feminism wasn't something that was remotely on m...

SXSW Review: Women-Directed Shorts including Sequin Raze and Ellen Is Leaving

At SXSW I was able to catch some excellent short films. There were a bunch of great women-centric ones  including: Dotty a funny and touching look at an elderly woman struggling to send a text message to her daughter; Community's Gillian Jacobs was hilarious as a woman whose boyfriend begi...