On Tuesday night the SXSW Film Festival and Conference announced a bevy of jury and audience selected award winners. We were pleased to see that two of our favorite films of the festival, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture and Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol (both of which we previewed here and here) were awarded the Narrative Feature Jury Prize and the Documentary Feature Jury Prize, respectively. Besides the absolutely outstanding programming this year, there has also been a SXSW Film Festival first: within hours of its World Premiere screening last Saturday night, Monsters, a sci-fi alien infection tale by first time feature director Gareth Edwards, was picked up by Magnet Releasing. more ›

Starting today, opening day of SXSW Film, B-Side will acquire, market and distribute 10 films in 2009, the first offering being the feature documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which "explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers." As you might notice, B-Side and RiP seem to be sharing a theme, and it's one that we, as consumers, are very excited about. more ›