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SXSW and Fantastic Fest hold hands, hug
Two powerhouse Austin film fests, SXSW and Fantastic Fest, have bonded for next month’s SXSW. They’ve forged the new program “SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest at Midnight,” called a “representative sample of the FF’s signature midnight genre programming, featuring six new premieres exclusive to SXSW.”
Which means blood, guts, guns and giant monsters in diapers.
The program’s line-up will be announced later this month HERE.
Speaking of Fantastic Fest — and we totally were — a full-throttle Texas horror flick that played last year’s FF, “The Wild Man of Navidad,” is coming to IFC Films Festival Direct. So you can watch the nifty little Texas gothic, with its creepy “Texas Chainsaw” flavors, on demand or pay per view starting Feb. 11.
The scoop HERE.
Sebastian Cordoba’s doc “Through Thick and Thin” kicks off the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival’s new Monthly Screening series at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Spirit Theatre at the Bullock Museum. Cordoba will be there and a party follows at 8:30 p.m.
The film screens in conjunction with the Bullock’s “Altered Lives: An Immigration Film Series.”
More about the AGLIFF show HERE.
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