Though it took team Indiepix, collectively, about three days to get here, all of the networking, idea-exchanging, film and panel going, and promotion of the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Film has been worth it. While True/False proved to be a Quaker summer camp like commune of nonfiction film celebration, South by Southwest is more like a meeting of the minds of the future. Since my good friend/blogger Joel Heller has an interactive pass, I have been privy to events like the “Facebook on Film” discussion, the Google and Frog Media receptions, and other tech-heavy content. Which is not to say I have been ignoring film. Though I have yet to get into a screening at the revamped Alamo Drafthouse (drats!), I have managed to see a few winners, including the documentary CRAWFORD an amusing but in no way timid look at the small Texas town in which George Bush chose to make his home. And ooops, just got interrupted by the wonderful Slava Rubin, from IndieGoGo. They are an independent film networking site doing some really innovative and important things with companies like B-Side and self-distribution gurus Lance Weiler and the Four-Eyed Monsters. But now, off to a screener of MATADOR, which my friend Donal edited and Steven Beer is repping. I am very exciting for this film!

More soon.