#sxsw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sxsw, aggregated by home.social.
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Deadline: SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027. “SXSW is expanding with the addition of a dedicated podcast festival in 2027, festival organizers announced on Tuesday. This positions Podcasts a core element of the SXSW experience, alongside Film & TV, Music, Comedy, and the Innovation Conference.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/21/deadline-sxsw-launching-podcast-festival-in-2027/ -
SXSW True Crime Doc ‘I Got Bombed At Harvey’s’ Scores North American Deal
#News #IGotBombedAtHarvey039s #SXSWhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/sxsw-true-crime-i-got-bombed-at-harveys-us-deal-release-1237047256/
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Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick’s SXSW Horror Pic ‘Family Movie’ Sets Spring 2027 Release With Variance
#News #FamilyMovie #KevinBacon #KyraSedgwick #SXSW #Variancehttps://deadline.com/2026/08/kevin-bacon-kyra-sedgwick-family-movie-release-date-1237045344/
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SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027
#Festivals #News #SXSW #SXSWPodcastFestivalhttps://deadline.com/2026/08/sxsw-launching-podcast-festival-2027-1237043568/
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SXSW Sets Podcast Festival, Locals-Only Perks and Changes in Music Venues for 2027 Event in Austin
#Variety #News #SXSWhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/sxsw-podcast-austin-perks-1236836769/
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SXSW 2027 Shifts Film Premieres from Paramount Theatre to ACL Live, Adds Podcast Festival
#IndieWire #Festivals #News #Film #SXSWhttps://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/sxsw-2027-venue-changes-podcast-festival-1235211013/
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Obscured Releasing Takes North America To Emily Robinson’s SXSW Horror Pic ‘Ugly Cry’
#Acquisitions #EmilyRobinson #ObscuredReleasing #SXSW #UglyCryhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/sxsw-ugly-cry-obscured-releasing-1237004748/
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Lizzy Caplan, John Stamos & Lucy DeVito SXSW Movie ‘Drag’ Gets Winter Release From Briarcliff Entertainment
#News #BriarcliffEntertainment #Drag #SXSWhttps://deadline.com/2026/06/lizzy-caplan-john-stamos-drag-release-date-1236967704/
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A word to the wise: if you get an opportunity to hear the story of @spot and @suehle in the Tux costume photo booth at #sxsw, take that opportunity. #unopensourceweek
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Off-season, non-SXSW Austin is its own sort of weird
AUSTIN, Tex.
It feels like I barely visited my favorite part of Texas, and that’s not just because my trip here for the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Unify conference only spanned three days. This visit has also reminded me that SXSW, my usual experience of Austin aside from one trip here in September of 2018 for the Online News Association’s conference, is not a reliable reflection of the city.
The sidewalks this week aren’t crowded with hipsters and would-be hipsters (i.e., me) wearing the same conference badge, in the process making the number of unhoused people here a little more obvious. Bars and restaurants downtown go by their normal names instead of being rebranded as “activations” for one #brand or another. And instead of delightful spring weather, it’s ghastly hot out–not Vegas-in-August scorching, but also much more humid.
Avoiding that heat by spending so much of my time in Unify’s air-conditioned confines at the Hilton Downtown made this even more of a fake visit for me. I did at least think to stop by a dive bar off Red River Street Wednesday night to get in some local color and put some money into the non-hotel economy.
One other change I noticed compared to March: Austin’s streets seem to have picked up a lot more robotic occupants. Waymos are as ubiquitous as ever, but I also spotted several of Austin-based Avride’s refitted Hyundai Ioniq 5s, at least two Zoox toasters on wheels and one of Tesla’s two-seat, gold-colored Cybercabs–plus delivery robots rolling up and down sidewalks.
(I didn’t get a good enough look at most of the non-Waymo vehicles to see if they had humans at the controls or otherwise overseeing them. Nor did I get rides on any of them, since it was such a short walk from my hotel to the conference venue.)
But one part of Austin did take me right back to my usual marketing-spring-break nonsense: being greeted outside by the airport by the squawk of grackles.
#AffordableConnectivityPlan #ATX #AUS #Austin #autonomousVehicles #ConnectivityStandardsAlliance #grackles #hipsters #robots #selfDrivingCars #sxsw #Texas #Waymo -
AC Film+ 影評台
《復仇者聯盟5》SXSW版預告解析！官宣進入「第零階段」有何含義？末日博士完整起源竟源於政變！｜AVENGERS DOOMSDAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYR5THUpVE -
Abbey Road Boss Sally Davies on ‘Buoyant’ SXSW London Takeover & Shaping U.K. Industry’s ‘Pragmatic’ Response to AI
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.billboard.com/pro/abbey-road-sally-davies-sxsw-london-ai/
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SXSW London: 7 Biggest Takeaways From 2026’s Diverse & Headline-Grabbing Program
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.billboard.com/lists/sxsw-london-2026-takeaways-highlights/
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When exactly did companies let employees work less for the same salary? - wasn't it more a result of unions and strikes from the workers?
I simply don't believe that companies suddenly act altruistic. Especially stock noted
> #AI revolution or job killer: Will we have more free time soon? | heise online
> AI is changing the world of work, that much is clear. Experts discussed the consequences for employees and companies at #SXSW in London.
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Shame Give SXSW London a Searing Finale: 5 Best Moments
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.billboard.com/lists/shame-sxsw-london-2026-best-moments/
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“Unlike Anything That’s Ever Been Done on Television Before”: ‘House of the Dragon’ Battle Secrets Revealed at SXSW London
#TV #TVNews #GameofThrones #HouseoftheDragon #International #Lordoftherings #SXSW #SXSWLondon #SXSWLondon2026 #Television -
https://www.wacoca.com/media/675519/ 「ゼロに戻して、皆さんの信頼と尊敬をもう一度勝ち取る」『アベンジャーズ』ロバート・ダウニー・Jr.が宣言 – theriver.jp #film #movie #SXSW #topic #tv/movie #アベンジャーズ #アベンジャーズ／インフィニティ・ウォー #アベンジャーズ／エンドゲーム #アベンジャーズ／シークレット・ウォーズ #アベンジャーズ／ドゥームズデイ #スーパーヒーロー #ドクター・ドゥーム #マーベル #マーベル・シネマティック・ユニバース #ロバート・ダウニー・Jr #映画
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SXSW London: U.K. Music Tech Sector Calls for Greater Recognition and Funding: ‘We Want to Get Something Done’
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Banning leftwing activists from entering Britain: an illiberal move with a long history in this country | DK Renton https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/04/banning-leftwing-activists-britain-illiberal-cenk-uygur-hasan-piker #HomeOffice #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalMedia #Sxsw #Politics #UkNews
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DJ AG Headlines Billboard THE STAGE at SXSW London 2026 With Eclectic, Party-Starting Set
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Leftwing US commentator calls decision to ban him from UK ‘Kafkaesque’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/04/leftwing-us-commentator-cenk-uygur-ban-uk-kafkaesque #FreedomOfSpeech #WorldNews #HomeOffice #Sxsw #Politics #UsPolitics #UsNews #UkNews #Culture #Festivals
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#CenkUygur and #HasanPiker were denied entry to the #UK by the #HomeOffice, preventing them from speaking at #SXSW London. The Home Office cited concerns about their potential risk to UK society, with reports suggesting the decision was influenced by their criticism of Israel. https://deadline.com/2026/06/cenk-uygur-hasan-piker-blocked-uk-entry-miss-sxsw-london-1236931792/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Michelle Obama: white men do not have to worry about impostor syndrome https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/michelle-obama-white-men-not-worry-impostor-syndrome #MichelleObama #Sxsw #Race #Culture #ParentsAndParenting #Family #UsNews #UkNews #WorldNews
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The GTA Effect: Grand Theft Auto (& Hamlet) At SXSW London 2026
This week, the eyes of the global creative industries are focused on Shoreditch in London as the European edition of South by Southwest takes over the city. SXSW London has quickly established itself as a premier convergence of technology, music, screen, and interactive culture. On Thursday 4 June at 1:35pm, I will be taking the stage at Protein Studios for a panel session that strikes at the very heart of my own history in this industry: The GTA Effect.
Alongside co-panelists Sam Crane, the filmmaker behind the brilliant, award-winning Grand Theft Hamlet, and Dr Esther Wright, Senior Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University and a leading academic authority on Rockstar Games, we will be unpacking what the Grand Theft Auto franchise means for global culture, branding, and the entertainment industry as we head toward the launch of GTA6.
The Untold Origin Story
If you’ve heard about my background, my perspective on this panel is a highly personal one. Way before I founded the Scottish Games Network, I started my career at DMA Design, working as a writer on the very first Grand Theft Auto, Body Harvest, Silicon Valley and Tanktics.
As we prepare to discuss the massive cultural footprint of the franchise, I have been reflecting on the fact that the actual origin story of the original Grand Theft Auto has never been told properly or in depth – despite at least half a dozen production companies attempting to take on the challenge and produce feature-length documentaries. The reasons why you’ve seen NONE of these histories released are fascinating (and chilling) stories in themselves.
(The less said about the BBC’s 2015 docu-drama The Game Changers, the better…)
The industry has a habit of ‘sanitising’ its own history, reducing the chaotic, brilliant, and often weird development of the first game into a neat, corporate myth. The reality was far more complex, far more human, and deeply rooted in a very specific time and place in Scotland. That untold story is not just a piece of nostalgia; it is a vital part of our national digital heritage that needs to be documented with the depth and accuracy it deserves.
(and maybe that’s something I can change…?)
A Convergence of Perspectives
What makes The GTA Effect session so compelling is the sheer diversity of the panel. We are bringing together three entirely different lenses to look at a single cultural phenomenon:
- The Developer’s Lens: My own experience from the ground floor (ok, basement) of DMA Design, witnessing how a ‘highly experimental’ project in Dundee transformed into a global phenomenon.
- The Creative Lens: Sam Crane, who captured the world’s attention by staging a full production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside the virtual space of GTA Online during pandemic lockdown, proved that these worlds are now active platforms for human connection, emergent behaviour and More Than Games.
- The Academic Lens: Dr Esther Wright, whose extensive research into the historical authenticity of Rockstar’s titles like Red Dead Redemption provides the critical, theoretical framework to understand how these digital spaces shape our collective memory of history.
We also need to thank Dan Salkey, the co-founder of Small World, who pulled the panel together.
This is the More Than Games philosophy in its purest form – demonstrating that a videogame is no longer a simple consumer product, but a massive cultural sandbox that influences fashion, music, literature, and academic study across the world.
Shaping the Future Narrative
With the launch of the next entry in the GTA franchise shaping up to be the biggest cultural drop of the decade, understanding the history and heritage of this incredible IP has never been more urgent. But we cannot fully understand where the franchise is going if we remain indifferent to how it began.
I’m looking forward to a lively, challenging, and deeply honest conversation about The GTA Effect on Thursday. My goal is to ensure that as we dissect the global impact of this series, the value of GTA outside its enormous economic impact is central to the discussion. The game is so valuable and the numbers so big (billions of dollars, players, hours played, records broken, etc.) that the cultural, social and creative impact can sometimes be lost in the mix.
If you are attending SXSW London this week, please head over to Protein Studios. Let’ u’s discuss how we can collectively value and protect the games we love (and our shared digital history) as we continue to build games into the future of the global creative economy.
Session Details:
- Title: The GTA Effect
- Date: Thursday 4 June 2026
- Time: 1:35pm – 2:05pm
- Location: Protein Studios (Stage 2), Shoreditch, London
- Track: Creator Economy / Panel Discussion
Learn more about the session: The GTA Effect at SXSW London 2026
Explore the festival schedule: SXSW London 2026
#brianBaglow #DanSalkey #EstherWright #games #gta #SamCrane #scotland #sxsw #SXSWLondon -
SXSW Responds To Hasan Piker UK Ban With Nothing Statement, Speakers Pull Out In Protest
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/hasan-piker-uk-ban-sxsw-speakers-withdraw/
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#YoungTurks founder & his controversial #Twitch streamer cousin both barred from entry to #UK for appearances at #Oxford #SXSW events due to alleged anti #Israel bias
A #LabourParty MP David Taylor took to #MelonHusk branded #socialmedia platform to praise the #UK home secretary office for the decision to block their visas:
"There's no reason to open our doors to those who seek to spread hate and division, especially to those who've supported a proscribed terror group"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/01/us-political-commentators-say-banned-entering-uk-cenk-uygur-hasan-piker
#CenkUygur #HasanPiker #Censorship #Bias -
Free speech activists condemn UK entry ban for Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/01/us-political-commentators-say-banned-entering-uk-cenk-uygur-hasan-piker #DigitalMedia #UkNews #HomeOffice #Sxsw #Podcasting #UsNews #FreedomOfSpeech #SocialMedia #Internet #Media #WorldNews #Politics #Labour
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The #SXSW festival used an AI copyright tool to censor groups critical of the festival's association with war profiteers. Great article by 404 Media.
(Who would probably be pissed I'm sharing the archive link, but I don't subscribe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)