This post comes to us from Maria Diaz, who blogs at Bravo Fan. Maria attended this year’s SXSW festival and graciously agreed to write up a report for Film Gecko. Thank you, Maria! Read on for her inside scoop on the festival, and for more on SXSW, read Lindsay Long’s report here…

The South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas is just about wrapped up for the year. Eight days of parties, barbecue, queso and over 200 films screened! If you are a lover of unique, independent films, there is no better place to be in March than SXSW … [Read More]

Lindsay Long has graciously volunteered to be a Film Gecko field reporter at SXSW 2009, currently the happenin’ place to be in Austin, Texas. That’s Lindsay pictured with "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke. More on that later!
Lindsay attended two panels on Saturday. Read on for her report:
Jeffrey Tambor: "Break the Rules"
The first panel was Jeffrey Tambor’s Acting Workshop. For the first part of the workshop, Jeffrey took two actors, Jess Weixler ("Alexander the Last") and Mark Reeb (John Bryant Productions), and directed them through a scene. The two actors had only memorized their lines and the context of the … [Read More]