SXSW partners with Amazon to put its film festival online

[TexasTowelie]

The popcorn will be bring your own and the barbecue won’t be as good, but the Austin, Texas, SXSW Film Festival is moving online after having its 27th edition canceled by the coronavirus pandemic.

SXSW announced Thursday that it’s partnering with Amazon Prime Video to stream as much of its movie line-up as possible for a 10-day period in the U.S. It will be free to viewers with or without an Amazon Prime membership.

South by Southwest organizers have worked frantically to salvage what they could of the festival and bring attention to the many films that had been planning to premiere there. SXSW, which had been scheduled to run March 13-22, last week announced awards for its competition categories, anyway.

Individual films will choose whether they want to opt in to the 10-day “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection” on Amazon. Don’t count on movies acquired by Netflix, for example, to participate. The festival declined to say how many films it expects to host.

Read more: https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/sxsw-partners-with-amazon-to-put-its-film-festival-online/

[cilla4progress]

1. Super, thanks! I told my daughter -

she was set to go at the end of a Montessori conference in Dallas and was so disappointed it cancelled!

They were wisely ahead of the curve.

[Javaman]

2. are the organizers of sxsw still going to charge $500 bucks a head?

I wouldn't put it past them.