I'm going to South by Southwest tomorrow!
In Austin!
Texas!
I'm excited, I've never been to Austin before, or Texas, for that matter. My wife (who is unable to join me) loves Austin and has given me a list of restaurants I must go to, but I'm having trouble remembering them all. I'll call her.
Anyway, I'm going with a team from Spout.com to do audio and video podcasts of the film and interactive portions of the festival. We'll be watching movies and interviewing the filmmakers like we did at the Denver Film Festival a few months ago. But this time we'll also be filming a series of roundtable discussions with filmmakers, bloggers, and other industry folk that will be available via Spout and Youtube. More on that later.
Spout has what they call a "sitelette" to keep track of all the SXSW happenings, complete with blog posts, podcasts, a Flickr photostream, and a Twitter stream. Check it out here.
If you're dying to know which amazing bands I'm going to see while I'm there, the answer is... none. While the film and music portions of the festival do overlap somewhat, I'll be leaving Tuesday, before the music gets under way. Oh well. There are more than enough amazing films to see.
I'll try to keep this blog updated with what's going down there, if I have time.
I'm sure you're going to have a great time; I'm jealous. I've wanted to go to the "Interactive" SXSW since it started but haven't been able to yet.
Have fun!