2016 SXSW Film Festival: 12 Films & TV Highlights To Look Out For

It’s that time of year again. The beer, bbq, nachos and —don't forget— movies, are soon to flow at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, taking place from March 11th through the 19th. Somewhere in between that period of doing permanent bodily harm, we watch and ideally cogently review the movies screened at the fest in Austin.

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This year, the festival has more of the same, but in a good way: there's an emphasis on independent cinema, which includes homegrown talent, indie documentaries, crowd-pleasing mainstream fare, well-curated spotlight content from previous festivals and horror and genre fare that speaks directly to a devoted core constituency. Props are due SXSW for being frontrunners of the television narrative space. It’s becoming somewhat of a regular occurrence to see a TV programming sidebar at film festivals, but what is beginning to feel customary now is something SXSW recognized with the first...