Here’s a pointer to the initial list of feature-length non-fiction and fiction films screening at this year’s SXSW – Midnighters and Shorts will be announced next Wednesday, February 6, with panels to follow on Wednesday, February 13. Out of the 110 films announced today – culled by Janet Pierson and her team from over 2000 feature submissions – by my count, just shy of half are documentaries. Beyond the all-non-fiction Documentary Feature Competition and Documentary Spotlight, one or more docs appear in every section announced today (aside from the fiction-exclusive Narrative Feature Competition and Narrative Spotlight).
Following is the list of documentary features, broken down by section. For descriptions, check out the link above:
Documentary Feature Competition:
12 O’CLOCK BOYS
Lotfy Nathan
BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON
Stephen Silha & Eric Slade
HEY BARTENDER
Douglas Tirola
LOS WILD ONES
Elise Salomon
THE SHORT GAME
Josh Greenbaum
TOUBA
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS
AJ Schnack & David Wilson
WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL (pictured)
Ben Nabors
Documentary Spotlight:
AN UNREAL DREAM: THE MICHAEL MORTON STORY
Al Reinert
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT
PJ Raval
CONTINENTAL
Malcolm Ingram
DOWNLOADED
Alex Winter
GETTING BACK TO ABNORMAL
Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Odabashian, & Paul Stekler
GOOD OL’ FREDA (pictured)
Ryan White
I AM DIVINE
Jeffrey Schwarz
MEDORA
Andrew Cohn & Davy Rothbart
MILIUS
Zak Knutson & Joey Figueroa
MR ANGEL
Dan Hunt
THE NETWORK
Eva Orner
THE OTHER SHORE
Timothy Wheeler
REWIND THIS!
Josh Johnson
SPARK: A BURNING MAN STORY
Steve Brown & Jessie Deeter
TINY: A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL
Christopher Smith & Merete Mueller
UNHUNG HERO
Brian Spitz
WE CAUSE SCENES
Matt Adams
Headliners:
HAWKING
Stephen Finnigan
Visions:
ELENA
Petra Costa
FUCK FOR FOREST
Michał Marczak
HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION
Sophie Huber
LUNARCY!
Simon Ennis
MAIDENTRIP
Jillian Schlesinger
OUR NIXON (pictured)
Penny Lane
THESE BIRDS WALK
Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq
24 Beats Per Second:
ALL THE LABOR
Doug Hawes-Davis
ARTIFACT
Bartholomew Cubbins
A BAND CALLED DEATH
Mark Christopher Covino & Jeff Howlett
BORN IN CHICAGO
John Anderson
BROADWAY IDIOT (pictured)
Doug Hamilton
BROTHERS HYPNOTIC
Reuben Atlas
¡CUATRO!
Tim Wheeler
FINDING THE FUNK
Nelson George
THE PUNK SINGER
Sini Anderson
REINCARNATED
Andy Capper
TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
Morgan Neville
SX Global:
AND WHO TAUGHT YOU TO DRIVE?
Andrea Thiele
DIARIO A TRES VOCES (THREE VOICES)
Otilia Portillo Padua
THE PUNK SYNDROME (pictured)
Jukka Kärkkäinen & J-P Passi
SOFIA’S LAST AMBULANCE
Ilian Metev
Festival Favorites:
THE ACT OF KILLING (pictured)
Joshua Oppenheimer
FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Alan Berliner
Special Events:
NO MORE ROAD TRIPS?
Rick Prelinger
SOUND CITY
Dave Grohl
THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC!
Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling
TPB AFK: THE PIRATE BAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD (pictured)
Simon Klose
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