SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST
The South by Southwest Film Festival today announced the lineup of feature films for this year’s event, which runs March 11-19. “The 2005 program was created from over 2500 submissions from around the globe,” writes Festival Producer Matt Dentler in a press release received today. “The Narrative Feature Competition includes World Premieres starring Elijah Wood (Hooligans), Lorraine Bracco (Max & Grace), Dominic Monaghan (Shooting Liven), and more. The Documentary Feature Competition features the new film from award-winning director Kate Davis (Pucker Up), as well as The Comedians of Comedy, following a stand-up tour headlined by Patton Oswalt. The ‘Emerging Visions’ section features a wide range of work from feature newcomers, including the sci-fi epic Cl.one and the Iraq war documentary Occupation, Dreamland.
“Recent additions to the program include Unleashed (starring Jet Li and Morgan Freeman), All We Are Saying (directed by Rosanna Arquette), The Ring Two (starring Naomi Watts), Drop Dead Sexy (starring Jason Lee and Crispin Glover), and Murderball (directed by Harry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro). The festival’s Opening Night Film is The Wendell Baker Story (pictured right), starring Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, and Eva Mendes.”
In addition, the Festival has announced the finalists for this year’s Web Awards. All Web Award nominees are sites that have launched or been completely redesigned in the past year.
