SXSW 1st day

Hey all,

Just a quick late night entry...Elizabeth and I decided to go to SXSW this year. It's funny, we've both lived here for more than 10 years and I think the last time I went to SXSW film was like 5 to 8 years ago and the last time Elizabeth went there wasn't a film festival yet, just music. So, you can imagine that we're both pretty shell shocked by how large the festival has grown.

We didn't make it down to any panels today, mostly because there really wasn't much going on. But we did have two films and a party we wanted to attend. The first film was Erasing David, awesome awesome Doc. We both had a chance to chat with David the filmmaker, who was the subject of the film. The film deals with databases of all our information. If you have ever wondered how much information was out there about you, you should definely watch this film. It's kind scary really. David told Elizabeth that the film was available for VOD on Amazon. So, I check amazon and here it is, check it out if you like. Erasing David VOD link.  Also, David said that they are showing at the Boston International Film Festival, so anyone from Boston go check it out. It's worth seeing. Now, the line for this film was long, the wait wasn't to bad...and we did obviously get in because how else would I be telling you these stories. But overall the experience of going to this film was pretty good.

After the film, we headed over to the Kick Ass party...the line to get in was around the corner but it didn't take long to get in and once in we went straight upstairs, it was not as crowd as downstairs and the bar had really no one waiting, nice. We stayed, had a drink and ran into a few friends. Then we headed off to our next film Tucker and Dale VS. Evil, it was showing over at the Alamo Ritz. We were there an hour early and you would not believe the line...it went all the way down the block, around the building and down the street to the ally. We waited a while but then decided we could wait and see it later in the week.

So, overall for the first night of the fest, we had fun, met a few people, saw a really good film and stood in line. This was not really surprising, because as I said SXSW is a big festival and lines are were you meet people, at least that's my experience. I am looking forward to seeing how the rest of the weekend into the week pans out.

Probably the most surprising thing was what we found at the Driskel Bar, we stopped by and man oh man was it stupid crazy in there. Tons and tons of people, you could hardly move. We didn't stay - surprise surprise, that kind of crowd makes me crazy. So, note to self, Driskel not on my list of places to go to this week.

Tomorrow we're off to our first set of the panels. Looking forward to doing that, I missed Austin Film Festival last year, so this will fill that void in me. Also one of the biggest reason for signing up was it's providing us a great opportunity to talk about our the project, "Clombies". You knew this would come up, since it's all I like to talk about these days. But it's really exciting to see what kind of questions people ask and just to get face to face feedback is awesome.

If you're at SXSW keep an eye out for us, would love to meet anyone that read this blog.

Anyway, I probably should sign off, I mean I did say this was going to be short...not so much, huh?