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March 16, 2010

Four days into SXSW...

Some quick notes, from bed, all cozy-like: freezing precipitation blew into Austin Texas this evening, prompting an early return home after a perfectly lovely four-movie stretch. This morning saw me running from Lovers Of Hate, after catching the first forty minutes on the big screen at the Paramount, down to the Alamo to catch the world premiere of Audrey The Trainwreck, which was just all around wonderful. I'm so proud of that movie. Proud through and through.

The other highlights so far have been Debra Granik's Winter's Bone, fresh from Sundance, and Aaron Katz's Cold Weather. In support of that film, Aaron and writer-producers Brendan McFadden and Ben Stambler continued our tradition of long conversations about other movies. The resulting piece went online over at Filmmaker Magazine, just before their premiere.

Tomorrow morning I'm spending a few hours on the educational end of things, as a panelist participating in Mentor Sessions. I didn't expect anyone to actually sign up to talk with me, but I just checked and all of my slots are booked. Fascinating!

And now some sleep.

Posted by David Lowery at March 16, 2010 12:46 AM