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Screenshot: SXSW 2005
March 11 - 15, 2005, the SXSW Interactive Festival brings together uber-geeks and digital innovators from around the world for four days of keynote speeches, trade show, panels, parties and assorted evening fun.
 Screenshot of documentary film "Seoul Train": about the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China. South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc.) is a private company based in Austin, Texas, with a year-round staff of professionals dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals. Since 1987, SXSW has produced the internationally recognized Music and Media Conference & Festival. As the entertainment business adjusted to issues of future growth and development, in 1993, SXSW added conferences and festivals for the film industry SXSW Film as well as for the blossoming interactive media SXSW Interactive Festival. Now three industry events converge in Austin during a Texas-sized week, mirroring the ever increasing convergence of entertainment/media outlets. One of the independent movies featuring at the festval is Seoul Train, directed by Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky and Lisa Sleeth. This documentary film gives an impression of the estimated 250,000 North Korean refugees living underground in China. They escaped a food crisis and other persecutions at home that have claimed the lives of approximately 3 million in the past 10 years. |
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posted by BlogFonk: Saturday, March 12, 2005 [#] Erms Suripatty