The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival has unveiled its complete line-up — 119 features to be screened over the course of a nine day fest. Of those films, three have spent time as Kickstarter projects. Call us crazy, but we still think it’s pretty neat to see ideas initially funded on Kickstarter become fully-realized artistic endeavors.
Check out the trailer’s for all three movies below.
Putty Hill
Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Porterfield
A young man’s untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss. Cast: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, Dustin Ray, Cody Ray (North American Premiere)
11/4/08
Director: Jeff Deutchman
Weaving together footage recorded throughout the world on the day Obama was elected President, this vérité documentary explores how people choose to live through “history.” (World Premiere)
Beijing Taxi
Director: Miao Wang
Through a humanistic lens, Beijing Taxi vividly portrays China undergoing a profound transformational arch in an era of Olympic transitions. The intimate lives of three cabbies connect a morphing cityscape and a lyrical journey through fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization. (World Premiere)