Wednesday, March 12, 2008

SXSW Film 2008: Top Five Blogs

SXSW has a pretty great blog promoting the music component of the fest, but not so for the film section. Fortunately, film and film fest fans online have taken over and the 2008 SXSW film festival is now chugging along full-steam ahead through the world-o-blogs. Here are my Top 5 blog picks for festival coverage.

1. Great set of interviews with SXSW participants, including an interview with early fest favorite We Are Wizards director Josh Koury.

http://www.indiewire.com/people/2008/03/sxsw_08_intervi_12.html

2. Probably the most comprehensive online coverage of the fest can be found at Spout. Interviews, festival news and more from their roving correspondents.

http://blog.spout.com/

3. Great coverage from the films to the parties can be found at:

http://www.cinematical.com

4. Indie film stalwarts Film Threat provide all things SXSW at:

http://sxsw.bside.com/2008/

5. Not coming to a theater near you has just a few reviews of the fest films so far, but should be building over the week. And while some of these films will be coming to a theater near you, a bunch will not, so check this out while you can.

http://www.notcoming.com/