SXSW Announces 2015 Features Lineup, Including A Whopping 145 Films
Hot on the heels of the Sundance press influx, SXSW has dropped their features lineup for the March 13th-21st film festival.
Narrative Feature Competition
- 6 Years (Director/Screenwriter: Hannah Fidell)
- THE BOY(Director: Craig Macneill, Screenwriters: Craig Macneill, Clay McLeod Chapman)
- Creative Control (Director: Benjamin Dickinson, Screenwriters: Benjamin Dickinson, Micah Bloomberg)
- Funny Bunny(Director/Screenwriter: Alison Bagnall)
- The Grief of Others(Director/Screenwriter: Patrick Wang)
- KRISHA (Director/Screenwriter: Trey Edward Shults)
- Manson Family Vacation (Director/Screenwriter: J. Davis)
- Quitters (Director: Noah Pritzker, Screenwriters: Noah Pritzker, Ben Tarnoff)
- Sweaty Betty (Directors/Screenwriters: Joseph Frank, Zachary Reed)
- Uncle John (Director: Steven Piet, Screenwriters: Erik Crary, Steven Piet)
Documentary Feature Competition
- Breaking a Monster (Director: Luke Meyer)
- Deep Time (Director: Noah Hutton)
- FRAME BY FRAME(Directors: Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli)
- Madina's Dream (Director: Andrew Berends)
- Peace Officer (Directors: Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber)
- Poached (Director: Timothy Wheeler)
- The Sandwich Nazi (Director: Lewis Bennett)
- She's The Best Thing In It (Director: Ron Nyswaner)
- Twinsters (Directors: Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto)
- A Woman Like Me (Directors: Alex Sichel, Elizabeth Giamatti)
Headliners
- BRAND: A Second Coming (Director: Ondi Timoner)
- Ex Machina (Director/Screenwriter: Alex Garland)
- Get Hard (Director: Etan Cohen, Screenwriters: Story By Adam McKay And Jay Martel & Ian Roberts, Screenplay By Jay Martel & Ian Roberts And Etan Cohen)
- Hello, My Name is Doris (Director: Michael Showalter, Screenwriters: Laura Terruso, Michael Showalter)
- Love & Mercy (Director: Bill Pohlad, Screenwriters: Oren Moverman, Michael Alan Lerner)
- Manglehorn (Director: David Gordon Green, Screenwriter: Paul Logan)
- Spy (Director/Screenwriter: Paul Feig)
- Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine(Director: Alex Gibney)
Narrative Spotlight
- 7 Chinese Brothers (Director/Screenwriter: Bob Byington)
- The Automatic Hate (Director: Justin Lerner, Screenwriters: Justin Lerner, Katharine O'Brien)
- Bone in the Throat (Director: Graham Henman, Screenwriters: Graham Henman, Mark Townend)
- The Final Girls (Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson, Screenwriters: M. A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller)
- Fresno (Director: Jamie Babbit, Screenwriter: Karey Dornetto)
- The Frontier (Director: Oren Shai, Screenwriters: Webb Wilcoxen, Oren Shai)
- The Goob (Director/Screenwriter: Guy Myhill)
- I Dream Too Much (Director/Screenwriter: Katie Cokinos)
- Ktown Cowboys (Director: Daniel (DPD) Park, Screenwriters: Danny Cho, Brian Chung)
- Lamb (Director/Screenwriter: Ross Partridge)
- Life in Color (Director/Screenwriter: Katharine Emmer)
- The Little Death (Director/Screenwriter: Josh Lawson)
- Mania Days (Director/Screenwriter: Paul Dalio)
- Night Owls (Director: Charles Hood, Screenwriters: Seth Goldsmith, Charles Hood)
- Wild Horses (Director/Screenwriter: Robert Duvall)
Documentary Spotlight
- Bikes vs Cars (Director/Screenwriter: Fredrik Gertten)
- Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play (Director: Jerome Thélia, Screenwriters: John Fox, Jerome Thélia)
- A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story (Director: Sara Hirsh Bordo)
- Deep Web (Director/Screenwriter: Alex Winter)
- For Grace (Directors: Kevin Pang, Mark Helenowski)
- For the Record (Director: Marc Greenberg)
- GTFO: Get The F% Out (Director: Shannon Sun-Higginson)
- Kingdom of Shadows (Director: Bernardo Ruiz)
- Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro (Directors: Michael LaHaie, Christopher Wilcha)
- Out To Win (Director: Malcolm Ingram)
- Raiders! (Directors: Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen)
- Rolling Papers (Director: Mitch Dickman)
- Sneakerheadz (Directors: David T. Friendly, Mick Partridge, Screenwriter: David T. Friendly)
- Son of the Congo (Director/Screenwriter: Adam Hootnick)
- Stone Barn Castle (Directors: Kevin Ford, Adrien Brody)
- Tab Hunter Confidential (Director: Jeffrey Schwarz)
- T-Rex (Directors: Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari)
Visions
- Ava's Possessions (Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Galland)
- Babysitter (Director/Screenwriter: Morgan Krantz)
- Barge (Director: Ben Powell)
- Disaster Playground (Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun)
- God Bless the Child (Directors: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Screenwriter: Robert Machoian)
- Honeytrap (Director/Screenwriter: Rebecca Johnson)
- Just Jim (Director/Screenwriter: Craig Roberts)
- Naz & Maalik (Director/Screenwriter: Jay Dockendorf
- Nina Forever (Directors/Screenwriters: Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine)
- The Nymphets (Director/Screenwriter: Gary Gardner)
- One & Two (Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Screenwriters: Andrew Droz Palermo, Neima Shahdadi)
- Petting Zoo (Director/Screenwriter: Micah Magee)
- Planetary (Director: Guy Reid, Screenwriter: Steve Watts Kennedy)
- Sailing A Sinking Sea (Director: Olivia Wyatt)
- Uncle Kent 2 (Director: Todd Rohal, Screenwriter: Kent Osborne)
- Unfriended (Director: Leo Gabriadze, Screenwriter: Nelson Greaves)
- A Wonderful Cloud (Director/Screenwriter: Eugene Kotlyarenko)
Episodic
- Angie Tribeca (Director: Steve Carell, Screenwriters: Steve Carell, Nancy Carell)
- The Comedians (Director: Larry Charles)
- iZOMBIE (Director: Rob Thomas, Screenwriters: Rob Thomas, Diane Ruggiero-Wright)
- Mr. Robot (Director: Sam Esmail)
- UnREAL (Director: Peter O’Fallon, Screenwriters: Marti Noxon, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro)
24 Beats Per Second
- 808 (Director: Alexander Dunn, Screenwriters: Alexander Dunn, Luke Bainbridge)
- All Things Must Pass (Director: Colin Hanks, Screenwriter: Steven Leckart)
- THE DAMNED: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (Director: Wes Orshoski)
- Danny Says (Director: Brendan Toller)
- Dominguinhos (Directors: Joaquim Castro, Eduardo Nazarian, Screenwriter: Di Moretti)
- The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (Director/Screenwriter: Julien Temple)
- Gloria (Director: Christian Keller, Screenwriter: Sabina Berman)
- Hot Sugar's Cold World (Director: Adam Bhala Lough)
- JACO (Directors: Paul Marchand, Stephen Kijak, Screenwriters: Paul Marchand, Robert Trujillo)
- The Jones Family Will Make a Way (Director/Screenwriter: Alan Berg)
- Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Director/Screenwriter: Brett Morgen)
- Landfill Harmonic (Directors: Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley)
- Made in Japan (Director/Screenwriter: Josh Bishop)
- Mavis! (Director: Jessica Edwards)
- A Poem Is A Naked Person (Director: Les Blank)
- Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove (Director: Joe Nick Patoski, Screenwriters: Joe Nick Patoski, Jason Wehling)
- Theory of Obscurity: a film about The Residents (Director/Screenwriter: Don Hardy)
- They Will Have To Kill Us First (Director: Johanna Schwartz, Screenwriters: Johanna Schwartz, Andy Morgan)
- We Like It Like That (Director: Mathew Ramirez Warren)
- Y/OUR MUSIC (Directors: David Reeve, Waraluck Hiransrettawat Every)
SXGlobal
- 15 Corners of the World (Director/Screenwriter: Zuzanna Solakiewicz)
- The Avian Kind (Director/Screenwriter: Shin Yeon-Shick)
- The Ceremony (Director/Screenwriter: Lina Mannheimer)
- Free Entry (Director/Screenwriter: Yvonne Kerékgyártó)
- Good Things Await (Director: Phie Ambo, Screenwriters: Phie Ambo, Maggie Olkuska)
- Invasion (Director: Abner Benaim)
- Limbo (Director/Screenwriter: Anna Sofie Hartmann)
- Monte Adentro (Director/Screenwriter: Nicolás Macario Alonso)
Festival Favorites
- Adult Beginners (Director: Ross Katz, Screenwriters: Jeff Cox, Elizabeth Flahive)
- Being Evel (Director: Daniel Junge, Screenwriters: Daniel Junge, Davis Coombe)
- Best of Enemies (Directors: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon)
- City of Gold (Director: Laura Gabbert)
- Entertainment (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington)
- Finders Keepers (Directors: Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel)
- Heaven Knows What (Directors: Joshua Safdie, Benny Safdie)
- The Last Man on the Moon (Director: Mark Craig)
- The Look of Silence (Director: Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Lost River (Director/Screenwriter: Ryan Gosling)
- Ned Rifle (Director/Screenwriter: Hal Hartley)
- The Overnight (Director/Screenwriter: Patrick Brice)
- Results(Director/Screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski)
- Salt of the Earth (Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Riberio Salgado, Screenwriters: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
- Unexpected (Director: Kris Swanberg, Screenwriters: Kris Swanberg, Megan Mercier)
- The Visit (Director/Screenwriter: Michael Madsen)
- Welcome to Leith (Directors: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)
- Western (Directors: Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
Special Events
- 7 Days In Hell (Director: Jake Szymanski, Screenwriter: Murray Miller)
- Doug Benson & Master Pancake interrupt Leprechaun 3 (1995)(Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith)
- Jonathan Demme Presents Made In Texas (Directors: Louis Black, Mark Rance)
- The Road Warrior (Director: George Miller, Screenwriters: Terry Hayes, George Miller)
- A Space Program (Director: Van Neistat, Screenwriters: Van Neistat, Tom Sachs)
- Trainwreck (Director: Judd Apatow, Screenwriter: Amy Schumer)
- Vertical Cinema (Director: Sonic Acts)
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An exciting lineup. We're hoping to be present at the festival in March to bring more interviews and relevant coverage. Stay tuned.
