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EXCLUSIVE: Jarod Neece, former Film Programmer and Event Producer at SXSW, has joined nascent indie film streamer Curia as Acquisitions and Marketing Consultant. Neece will work alongside Chief Content Officer Garrett Weaver, former Universal Pictures Director of Acquisitions.   The subscription service, which is now…

Sony Pictures Classics has taken worldwide rights to the documentary film Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, directed by Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler and written by Jeffery Robinson. The movie won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award at SXSW this year. The distributor plans an awards-qualifying run…

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures and Blue Fox Entertainment have jointly acquired a title for the first time, landing SXSW and Hot Docs selection We Are The Thousand, which chronicles the journey taken by 1,000 musicians to create the biggest rock band event on Earth. The film gives a first-hand account of the…

P-MRC Holdings has made a deal with South by Southwest that would make the media company a long-term partner with and shareholder of the Austin festival. P-MRC, which has acquired 50% of SXSW per WSJ, is a joint venture between Deadline parent company Penske Media Corporation and MRC. "It has been an incredibly tough…

Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to Language Lessons, the drama that marks the feature directing debut of Natalie Morales. She co-stars with Mark Duplass, who also penned the script. The pic, which had its world premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and won an audience award at SXSW, will now…

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films and corporate sibling Shudder have acquired North American rights to The Spine of Night, the animated fantasy horror film that just premiered at this year’s SXSW. The film, done in hand-rotoscoped animation, will now hit theaters in late 2021 and in 2022 on Shudder which also has UK, Australia…

Oscilloscope Laboratories is teaming with Mailchimp once again for #SupportTheShorts, a free streaming event featuring a selection of short films from the SXSW Film Festival on the global streaming platform Mailchimp Presents. #SupportTheShorts launched last year when SXSW was canceled due to Covid-19 and  hundreds of…

The 28th SXSW Film Festival revealed the Audience Award winners Tuesday, with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, The Fallout and Not Going Quietly among the list of honorees. The news comes after the online edition of the fest announced its jury awards. The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free…

The SXSW Film Festival has revealed its Jury and Special Award winners of the 28th edition of the fest, which took place virtually this week. The Megan Park-directed high school shooting tragedy The Fallout took the top award in the Narrative Feature category, while Jeremy Workman’s portrait of Lily Hevesh, Lily Topple…

On his debut feature The Spine of Night, Morgan King partnered with director Philip Gelatt, looking to bring a form of animation he loves back into the cultural conversation. "I always wanted to [explore] the rotoscoping process," King told Deadline recently. “I grew up with Ralph Bakshi's films and Heavy Metal, and…

First-time feature director Alex Noyer is gearing up for the SXSW premiere of his music-driven slasher film, Sound Of Violence. Before that, Noyer stopped by Deadline’s SXSW studio to speak on the film, which is based on his 2018 short, Conductor.  He was initially inspired by his 2015 documentary, 808. “I made 808…

In Justine Bateman’s feature directorial debut Violet, we are introduced to the titular character played by Olivia Munn. She’s a 32-year-old film executive who is living an impressive life in Hollywood — but then there’s “The Voice” in her head (Justin Theroux). It’s that inner dialogue everyone has that results in…