The Best Films Of The 2015 SXSW Film Festival
The queso and BBQ gorging are done, and so it's a wrap on the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, which featured a mix of mainstream releases, smaller indie narratives, documentaries and music-based films, among many others. Our two correspondents Charlie Schmidlin and Drew Taylor have comprised their best-of highlights from the festival. The Audience Award winners are here, and the regular award winners decided by the SXSW Jury are listed here. See you in 2016!
Charlie Schmidlin
Experiencing amazing Alamo Drafthouse bumpers, built-up queues for events and anything but vegetables as a culinary option, my first time at SXSW was the best kind of ordeal. The fest was staffed by a charming, friendly staff and volunteers who organized the programming down to a science —I don’t think I attended one delayed screening the entire time. I can’t wait to go back next year —maybe after a salad first.
1. “Krisha”
A wall of sound and fury with thankfully a story to back it up, Trey...