SXSW Announces Short Films and Midnighters for 2015 Festival
SXSW 2015

We've already shared the first round of announcements from SXSW for their 2015 festival, and now they've introduced the rest of fest, including shorts and midnighters. There were a total of 106 shorts selected, out of a whopping 4,935 submissions. It's worth noting that if you're trying to get a badge for the festival (and you haven't bought one yet), prices will rise after February 13th.
Here's everything that's new:
Midnighters
- The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Screenwriters: Hèctor Hernándes Vicens, Isaac P. Creus)
- Deathgasm (Director/Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden)
- The Diabolical (Director: Alistair Legrand, Screenwriters: Alistair Legrand, Luke Harvis)
- Excess Flesh (Director: Patrick Kennelly, Screenwriters: Sigrid Gilmer, Patrick Kennelly)
- HANGMAN (Director: Adam Mason, Screenwriters: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes)
- He Never Died (Director/Screenwriter: Jason Krawczyk)
- The Invitation (Director: Karyn Kusama, Screenwriters: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi)
- The Nightmare (Director: Rodney Ascher)
- Pod (Director/Screenwriter: Mickey Keating)
- Turbo Kid (Director/Screenwriter: RKSS Collective)
- We Are Still Here (Director/Screenwriter: Ted Geoghegan)
Narrative Shorts
- 09:55 – 11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B (Directors: Cristine Berglund, Sophie Vukovic)
- Actresses (Director: Jeremy Hersh)
- Aspirational (Director: Matthew Frost)
- Baby (Director: Samuel Aaron Bennett)
- Donald And Jess (Director: Paul Briganti)
- Followers (Director: Tim Marshall)
- Guest Room (Director: Joshua Tate)
- HALLWAY (Director: Leah Shore)
- Happy with Bear (Director: Yianni Warnock)
- LERATO (Director: Thati Peele)
- Myrna the Monster (Director: Ian Samuels)
- Oh Lucy (Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi)
- Pink Grapefruit (Director: Michael Mohan)
- Primrose (Director: Clara Aranovich)
- Room 55 (Director: Rose Glass)
- Share (Director: Pippa Bianco)
- Teenland (Director: Marie Grahtø)
- Wait 'til the Wolves Make Nice (Director: Jessica dela Merced)
- We'll Find Something (Director: Casey Gooden)
- What Doesn't Kill You (Director: Darya Zhuk)
Documentary Shorts
- Bob Spells Backwards (Directors: Josh Polon, Ryan Maxey)
- Born To Be Mild (Director: Andy Oxley)
- Boxeadora (Director: Meg Smaker)
- Calls to Okies: The Park Grubbs Story (Directors: Bradley Beesley, Ben Steinbauer)
- El Porvenir (Directors: Josh Chertoff, Alfredo Alcantara)
- Every Day (Director: Gabe Spitzer)
- Growth (Director: Mishka Kornai)
- I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! (Director: Charlie Tyrell)
- THE LAST MILE (Director: Ondi Timoner)
- The Little Deputy (Director: Trevor Anderson)
- Love Has No Age (Director: Eli Born)
- Picturing Barbara Kruger (Director: Pippa Bianco)
- Spearhunter (Directors: Adam Roffman, Luke Poling)
- Terms of Intimacy (Director: Melissa Langer)
- Tiger Hood (Director: Christopher André Marks)
- unmappable (Directors: Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma)
Animated Shorts
- All Your Favorite Shows! (Director: Danny Madden)
- Bottom Feeders (Director: Matt Reynolds)
- Butter Ya'Self (Director: Julian Petschek)
- Half Wet (Director: Sophie Koko Gate)
- LAVA (Director: James Ford Murphy)
- PALM ROT (Director: Ryan Gillis)
- Pig (Director: Steven Subotnick)
- Roadtrip (Director: Xaver Xylophon)
- teeth (Directors: Daniel Gray, Tom Brown)
- whole (Director: William Reynish)
- World of Tomorrow (Director: Don Hertzfeldt)
Midnight Shorts
- ANAL JUKE -anal juice- (Director: Sawako Kabuki)
- Bag Man (Directors: Josh Baker, Jonathan Baker)
- CROW HAND!!! (Director: Brian Lonano)
- Interesting Ball (Director: DANIELS)
- Kiss Kiss Fingerbang (Director: Gillian Wallace Horvat)
- Knock Knock (Director: Jeff Betancourt)
- Le Pédophile (Director: Ara Ball)
- WELCOME to WILLITS: AFTER SUNDOWN (Director: Trevor Ryan)
Music Videos
- Blood Orange - "You’re Not Good Enough” (Director: Gia Coppola)
- Boy & Bear - "Bridges" (Director: Summer DeRoche)
- Chet Faker - "Gold" (Director: Hiro Murai)
- clipping. - "Body & Blood" (Director: Patrick Kennelly)
- Dent de Cuir - "She’s Bad" (Directors: Dent De Cuir)
- DJ Snake featuring Lil’ Jon - "Turn Down for What" (Director: DANIELS)
- Donn Bhat - "Disco Disco" (Director: Aakash Bhatia)
- Duke Dumont - "Won’t Look Back" (Director: Tim Main)
- Hercules and Love Affair - "I Try to Talk to You" (Director: David Wilson)
- Hudson and Troop - "Frameless" (Directors: Andrew Goldsmith, Darcy Prendergast)
- Jack Kovacs (feat. Huxlee) - "The Empty House" (Director: Anna Zlokovic)
- Moody Good feat. Eryn Allen Kane - "Musicbx" (Director: Max McCabe)
- Mr Little Jeans - "Good Mistake" (Director: Ian & Cooper)
- Nils Frahm - "Re" (Director: Balázs Simon)
- Paolo Nutini - “Iron Sky” (Director: Daniel Wolfe)
- Saint Pepsi - "Fiona Coyne" (Director: Matt Walker)
- Taggart and Rosewood - "The Kink" (Directors: Brandon LaGanke, John Carlucci)
- Toys - "Golden Line" (Director: Vladimir de Fontenay)
- Valentino Khan - "Make Some Noise" (Director: Tim Hendrix)
Texas Shorts
- + / - (Directors: Andy Irvine, Mark Smoot)
- Carne Seca (Director: Jazmin Diaz)
- Darknet Delivery: A Silk Road Story (Directors: Lacey Dorn, Mafalda Millies)
- Detective Calzone (Director: Austin Tolin)
- Melville (Director: James M. Johnston)
- The OceanMaker (Director: Lucas Martell)
- The Samaritans (Director: John Bryant)
- Squirrel (Director: Tomas Vengris)
- Star Cadets (Director: Joe Nicolosi)
- Woman of the World (Director: Allison Cook)
Texas High School Shorts
- Art-O-Mat: The Art Machine (Director: Jose Couvillion)
- as needed. (Director: Jonah Goldberg)
- Awake After Sleepless Nights (Director: Nathan Jowers)
- Dolls (Directors: Katie Dai, Rachel Davis)
- Evelyn Parker (Director: Gretchen Lynch)
- Five Words (Director: Abbey Perez)
- Greg The Magnificent (Directors: Umar Qadeer, Nick Chaviers)
- Grief (Directors: Garrett Monk, Calvin Herbst)
- Home (Director: Caitlin O’Brien)
- I am not a Hero (Director: Murphy Studebaker)
- It's A Thing (Directors: Meredith Morran, Sage McCommas)
- It's Really Odd (Directors: Elisabetta Diorio, Joshua Leftwich)
- Just Your Average Joe (Directors: Pearl Basinski, Jade Basinski)
- KERS (Director: Alexia Salingaros)
- Luminosity (Director: Alexia Salingaros)
- Michelin (Directors: Caila Pickett, Gray Deuber)
- Noel (Director: Michael Morrison)
- The Passion of the Mime (Director: William Hoinoski)
- Pokemon Rivals Trailer (Directors: Josh Ulmer, Branden Shoemaker)
- Professor Hancock's Orchestra (Director: Charlie Ozburn)
- Shadows in the Woods (Director: Anthony Martino)
- Turtle: A Super 8 Short Film (Director: Cameron Fisher)
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And here is the list of features they have already announced:
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)









