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Sundance 09: SXSW & IFC

January 28th, 2009 • Agnes Varnum • 5 comments • Related Posts • Tags

Yesterday, Ingrid Kopp asked me over Twitter what I thought of the IFC/SXSW announcement of launching SX films on IFC’s VOD platform during the fest. My initial reaction was, no biggie, cool for all involved. After a couple more questions, I realized that Tom Hall wrote one of his long and thoughtful pieces that was prompting Ingrid’s question. Of course, in that case, I owe this more thought, but here is what I’m working with:

1. I love SXSW. It is hands-down my favorite festival (and it was so before I got to Austin). I do a bit of screening for them and last year I did some program notes, so I consider myself invested in their success in a small way. I have to admit that bias, though I feel no less supportive of any other festival. I love film festivals in general.

2. Before I left for this year, I was hearing ads on my brand new Time Warner digital cable OnDemand that they would be offering 13 films from the line up while the festival was happening. IFC & SXSW are not the first to create this kind of partnership, they just happened to have held a press conference about it, while I never received so much as a press release from about their Time Warner partnership. Are you feeling like the general public is over already because it was on Time Warner? Probably not.

Bird’s Nest: Get It While You Can!

August 14th, 2008 • Agnes Varnum • 1 comment • Related Posts • Tags

Got a great message from Jonathan Miller over at Icarus Films about a special promotion they are running for an intriguing-looking film, Bird’s Nest by Christoph Schaub & Michael Schindhelm. The film follows the 5-year effort of architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuronto as they build the new 100,000 seat stadium for the Olympic Games. The cool part is that the film had its US premiere at Silverdocs in June, and normally wouldn’t be available to consumers for a while, but Icarus is making it available on Amazon Unbox for the duration of the Olympic games. So, if you are consuming all things Olympic, here’s another vantage point.

I dig the interesting things people are doing to find audiences, and the trailer looks wonderful. Lemme know if you’ve seen the movie.

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