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SXSW Film Festival Reveals Midnighters, Shorts, and Inaugural VR Program
Joining last week's feature film announcement, these new additions deliver a fresh dose of weird, electric, inventive, and sometimes terrifying stories from both veteran directors and emerging filmmakers. Step right up as we roll out the red carpet with the remainder of 2017 SXSW Film Festival programming, including the Midnighters, Shorts, and VR lineup.
James Franco's The Disaster Artist is among 21 Features added to 2017 Lineup as well as 10 genre films, including 8 World Premieres, that make up the provocative after-dark program, SXSW Midnighters. The Midnighters section is a perennial favorite for SXSW audiences which includes a slate of dark comedies, thrillers, and slasher horror from a mix of established and first-time filmmakers.
This year, SXSW launched a new Virtual Reality section of the Film Festival to showcase the newest and most cutting-edge work in our Virtual Cinema. SXSW resides at the intersection of film and technology, and there is no better place to present this innovative format. The 38 projects emphasize storytelling, ingenuity and also showcase how other industries are embracing this new medium.
Browse by screening section: Midnighters, Additional Features, Special Events, Shorts Program, VR Program, Music Videos, and Excellence in Title Design.
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New Additions to 2017 SXSW Film Festival Lineup
Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious.
68 Kill
Director: Trent Haaga, Screenwriters: Trent Haaga based on the novel by Bryan Smith
Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000. Cast: Matthew Gray Gubler, Annalynne McCord, Alisha Boe, Sheila Vand, Sam Eidson, Lucy Faust, Eric Podner, Peter James, Hallie Grace Bradley, James Moses Black (World Premiere)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon: 10th Anniversary Screening
Director: Scott Glosserman, Screenwriters: David Stieve, Scott Glosserman
At SXSW in 2006 AICN's Quint wrote: "...it just had its world premiere at the Alamo a few hours ago. I hope to see this one get picked up, but I guarantee this one will make it." 10 years after its 2007 theatrical, the 35mm print returns to the fest! Cast: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund, Scott Wilson, Zelda Rubinstein, Kate Lang Johnson, Britain Spellings, Bridgett Newton, Ben Pace
Game of Death (Canada, France)
Directors: Laurence "Baz" Morais, Sebastien Landry, Screenwriters: Laurence "Baz" Morais, Sebastien Landry, Edouard Bond and adapted by Philip Kalin-Hajdu
In the middle of small-town nowhere, seven friends are forced to kill or be killed when they play the Game of Death. When faced with their own mortality, will they turn on each other to survive? Cast: Sam Earle, Victoria Diamond, Emelia Hellman, Catherine Saindon, Nick Serino, Erniel Baez D., Thomas Vallieres, Jane Hackett (World Premiere)
The Honor Farm
Director/Screenwriter: Karen Skloss
After prom night falls apart, Lucy finds herself at very different kind of party… On a psychedelic trip that could be a dangerous trap. Cast: Olivia Applegate, Louis Hunter, Dora Madison, Liam Aiken, Katie Folger, Michael Eric Reid, Mackenzie Astin, Michelle Forbes, Josephine McAdam, Christina Parrish (World Premiere)
Lake Bodom (UK)
Director: Taneli Mustonen, Screenwriters: Taneli Mustonen, Aleksi Hyvärinen
Reconstructing a legendary campsite murder turns fatal when the girls decide to rewrite history. As night falls, turns out not all of them are there to play. Cast: Nelly Hirst-Gee, Mimosa William, Mikael Gabriel, Santeri Mäntylä
Director: Joe Lynch, Screenwriter: Matias Caruso
After being framed for corporate espionage on the same day that a mysterious virus is unleashed on his company, attorney Derek Cho is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life. Cast: Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Dallas Mark Roberts, Caroline Chikezie, Mark Stewart Frost, Kerry Fox, Lucy Chappell, Steven Brand (World Premiere)
Meatball Machine Kodoku (Japan)
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Screenwriters: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Sakichi Sato
A long-awaited sequel to the internationally acclaimed full-throttle splatter sci-fi action horror Meatball Machine directed by Yoshihiko Nishimura, an acclaimed makeup artist and special effects designer ("Godzilla Resurgence"). Cast: Yoji Tanaka, Yurisa, Takumi Saito (World Premiere)
PIG: The Final Screenings
Director: Adam Mason
A savage satire of gender politics in America, Adam Mason is guaranteed to shock and offend with Pig. Created with actor and long time collaborator Andrew Howard, Pig is a virtuoso piece of pure cinema. Cast: Andrew Howard, Guy Burnet, Lorry Stone, Juliet Quintin-Archard, Molly Black (World Premiere)
Tragedy Girls (Canada, USA)
Director: Tyler MacIntyre, Screenwriters: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre, based on an original screenplay by Justin Olson
A twist on the slasher genre following two budding teenage sociopaths who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into a frenzy, cementing their legacy as modern horror legends. Cast: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Craig Robinson, Josh Hutcherson, Kevin Durand, Jack Quaid, Timothy V. Murphy, Nicky Whelan, Austin Abrams, Kerry Rhodes (World Premiere)
Two Pigeons (UK)
Director: Dominic Bridges, Screenwriter: Rae Brunton
A wide-boy estate agent unknowingly shares his home with a malicious tenant, one with a totally surprising agenda. Two Pigeons is a dark urban morality tale with an underlying streak of jet black comedy. Cast: Mim Shaikh, Javier Botet, Mandeep Dhillon, Kola Bokinni, Michael McKella (World Premiere)
Big names, big talent: Headliners bring star power to SXSW, featuring red carpet premieres and gala film events with major and rising names in cinema.
The Disaster Artist
Director: James Franco, Screenwriters: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on the book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room
This is a true story about the making of The Room – the cult classic described as the "Citizen Kane of bad movies". Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver, Alison Brie (Work-in-Progress)
High profile narrative features receiving their World, North American or U.S. premieres at SXSW.
Paris Can Wait
Director/Screenwriter: Eleanor Coppola
A devoted American wife (Diane Lane) with a workaholic inattentive husband (Alec Baldwin), takes an unexpected journey from Cannes to Paris with a charming Frenchman (Arnaud Viard) that reawakens her sense of self and joie de vivre. Cast: Diane Lane, Arnaud Viard, Alec Baldwin (U.S. Premiere)
Shining a light on new documentary features receiving their World, North American or U.S. premieres at SXSW.
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (UK)
Director: David Fairhead, Screenwriters: David Fairhead, Keith Haviland
At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future. (World Premiere)
Visions filmmakers are audacious, risk-taking artists in the new cinema landscape who demonstrate raw innovation and creativity in documentary and narrative filmmaking.
Porto (Portugal)
Director: Gabe Klinger, Screenwriters: Larry Gross, Gabe Klinger
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Lucie Lucas, Françoise Lebrun, Paulo Calatré (North American Premiere)
Showcasing the sounds, culture and influence of music and musicians, with an emphasis on documentary.
Song of Granite (Canada, Ireland)
Director: Pat Collins, Screenwriters: Pat Collins, Eoghan McGiolla Bhríde, Sharon Whooley
Acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins brings the dramatic life story of legendary seannós singer Joe Heaney to the screen in Song of Granite, an audacious exploration of the man and his music. Cast: Macdara Ó Fatharta, Mícheál Ó Chonfhaola, Jaren Cerf, Pól Ó Ceannabháín, Colm Seoighe (North American Premiere)
Acclaimed standouts & selected previous premieres from festivals around the world.
David Lynch - The Art Life
Director: Jon Nguyen
A film that deeply explores the experiences that shaped one of cinema's most distinctive voices: David Lynch. Presented by FilmStruck.
Person to Person
Director/Screenwriter: Dustin Guy Defa
A record collector hustles for a score while a lovelorn roommate regrets a dire mistake, a teenager bears witness to her friend's new relationship, and a rookie reporter and her demanding boss chase clues to a homicide involving a jaded watchmaker.
Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall, Bene Coopersmith, George Sample III, Isiah Whitlock, Ben Rosenfeld, Olivia Luccardi
Trophy (USA, South Africa)
Director: Shaul Schwarz, Screenwriter: Christina Clusiau
Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year. Trophy investigates the powerhouse businesses of big game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation.
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
Director: Sam Wainwright Douglas
In 2015 art collective Post-commodity constructed Repellent Fence, a two-mile long outdoor artwork that straddled the U.S.-Mexico border. The artwork extended a mile in each direction, symbolizing a suture stitching the region back together.
Live soundtracks, cult re-issues and much more. Our Special Events section offers unusual, unexpected and unique one-off film events.
Le Ride
Director: Phil Keoghan, Screenwriters: Phil Keoghan, Louise Keoghan
Television personality Phil Keoghan retraces the 1928 Tour de France riding an original vintage bicycle, with no gears, as he tells the forgotten 'underdog' story about the first English speaking team to take on the toughest sporting event on earth.
Doug Benson Master Pancake & Doug Loves Movies Podcast
Doug Benson returns in the continuing tradition of our annual St. Patrick's Day screening of the Leprechaun series. On March 17 we present Leprechaun 5: In The Hood, directed by Rob Spera.
A selection of original, well-crafted films that take advantage of the short form and exemplify distinctive and genuine storytelling.
Adult (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Jamieson Pearce
It is 1996. A middle-aged woman sits on a city bench on the wrong side of town. Waiting. Is anyone watching her? A pause in the traffic. The woman stands and shuffles across the road. The door to the Adult Store swings shut behind her. (North American Premiere)
American Paradise
Director/Screenwriter: Joe Talbot
Folk tale meets modern tragedy, American Paradise is the story of a man in Donald Trump's America who attempts to shift his fate with the perfect crime: a bank heist in a 'black-guy-mask.'
Cla'am (UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Nathaniel Martello-White
A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? (World Premiere)
Cubs (Iceland)
Director/Screenwriter: Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir
A single father wants to fulfil his young daughter's wish to throw a slumber party for her friends, but it turns out to be more of a challenge than he thought due to the rules of modern society. (North American Premiere)
DeKalb Elementary
Director/Screenwriter: Reed Van Dyk
Inspired by a 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia. (North American Premiere)
Forever Now (Denmark)
Director: Kristian Håskjold, Screenwriters: Kristian Håskjold, Trille Cecilie Uldall-Spanner After several years together William and Cecilie break up. To treat the sorrow with love the same night they decide to do the drug, MDMA, together. This results in a emotional rollercoaster ride for better or worse over a whole weekend. (World Premiere)
Fry Day
Director: Laura Moss, Screenwriters: Laura Moss, Brendan O'Brien
An adolescent girl comes of age against the backdrop of serial killer Ted Bundy's execution in 1989. (World Premiere)
Gamechanger (Netherlands)
Director: Christian van Duuren, Daan Gielis On his way to another tour of duty abroad, thirty-year-old Max gets caught up in a game with the young boys next door. Max gradually loses sight of reality, and the boys lose their innocence. (World Premiere)
I Know You From Somewhere
Director/Screenwriter: Andrew Fitzgerald
A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after she inadvertently becomes a viral sensation.
Director/Screenwriter: Charlotte Wells
On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.
Melon Rainbow (Denmark)
Director/Screenwriter: Laurits Flensted-Jensen Melon
Rainbow is a young girl who yearns to be seen. (North American Premiere)
The Mess He Made
Director: Matthew Puccini A man spends 15 minutes waiting for the results of a Rapid HIV test in a small-town strip mall. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Erin Sanger
A family's plan to stage an intervention unravels. (World Premiere)
The Robbery
Director: Jim Cummings, Screenwriter: Dustin Hahn
Crystal robs a liquor store and it goes pretty ok.
Rubber Heart
Director: Lizzy Sanford, Screenwriters: Lizzy Sanford, Anna Cordell
A one night stand that just doesn't click.
Director/Screenwriter: Laurel Parmet
Amanda struggles as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend. (World Premiere)
Submarine (Lebanon)
Director: Mounia Akl, Screenwriters: Mounia Akl, Clara Roquet
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon's garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
Slices of life from across the documentary spectrum.
The Collection
Director/Screenwriter: Adam Roffman
Two friends stumble upon the mother lode of movie memorabilia in the most unexpected of places. (World Premiere)
Foam Sweet Foam
Directors: Kelly Loudenberg, Jillian Mayer
Simplistic catalogue-style photographs, sound design, and narration are used to create a moving portrait of the furniture made of solid foam in a vast stage where officers in training play out every disaster imaginable. (World Premiere)
Gut Hack
Directors/Screenwriters: Kate Mclean, Mario Furloni
A former NASA scientist turned bio-hacker attempts an experiment that makes him confront the multitudes inside. (World Premiere)
Little Potato
Directors: Wes Hurley, Nathan M. Miller, Screenwriter: Wes Hurley
An autobiographical doc that tells the story of Little Potato's journey growing up gay in the Soviet Union before and after the fall of communism and their eventual escape to America. (World Premiere)
The Moderators (USA, Ireland)
Directors: Ciaran Cassidy, Adrian Chen
A group of new employees at a consultancy in India are trained in their responsibilities as the moderating backbone of the Internet. (World Premiere)
Director: Tarek Turkey
Born female, Nidal has identified as a boy since he was 9, coinciding with his family's escape from Syria. As he matures, he has to deal with the complexity in the confines of a refugee camp and a culture that cannot comprehend gender fluidity. (World Premiere)
No Harm No Foul
Director: Cheng Zhang
In the tendency to assume that science-based conclusions are objective and reliable, public health tragedies are allowed to occur repeatedly. (World Premiere)
Perfectly Normal
Director: Joris Debeij
A high-functioning autistic man balancing reality with his imaginary world, proves that one can make deliberate choices to find stability and to be more present in life. (North American Premiere)
Raised by Krump (Germany, Sweden, USA)
Director: Maceo Frost
Raised by Krump is a 22-minute documentary film that explores the Compton/South Central, Los Angeles-born dance movement called "Krumping", and the lives and emotional issues of some of the area's most influential and prolific dancers. (U.S. Premiere)
Director: Matthew K. Firpo
Refuge is a multimedia project chronicling human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. Shot on location in Greece, January 2016. (U.S. Premiere)
Übermensch (Denmark)
Director/Screenwriter: Jesper Dalgaard
Two transient young men breaks into an empty church by the sea to form a blood pact: to get rid of their childhood demons and escape the cycle of anxiety and authorities. "It's not really goth to be afraid of the darkness" they agree. (World Premiere)
Waiting for Hassana (Nigeria, USA)
Director/Screenwriter: Ifunanya "Funa" Maduka
In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.
The Watchmaker (UK)
Director: Marie-Cécile Embleton
A poetic portrait of a Persian watchmaker, whose philosophical musings on his craft invite us to reflect on how we engage with time in a globalised, fast-paced world. (North American Premiere)
An assortment of stories told using traditional animation, computer-generated effects, stop-motion, and everything in-between.
Birdlime (Canada)
Director: Evan DeRushie
A birds-eye-view of the exotic bird trade industry. (World Premiere)
Bloop's Birthday
Director: Julian Glander
Bloop's Birthday is the story of an odd little pink creature bouncing around an acid-pastel landscape in search of fun. The looming presence of a mysterious shadow figure makes things a little more complicated for the B-day gal and her friends. (World Premiere)
Catherine (Belgium)
Director/Screenwriter: Britt Raes
The bittersweet life story of a young girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady. (North American Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Jeron Braxton
Glucose is sweet, marketable, and easy to consume, but its surface satisfaction is a thin coating on the pain of many disenfranchised people. (World Premiere)
Hot Dog Hands
Director: Matt Reynolds
This woman can't stop growing fingers. (World Premiere)
It Should Be Easy (Canada)
Director: Ben Meinhardt
What happens when your mom calls for help with the computer. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Dave Mullins
When a toy stealing bully ruins recess for a playground full of kids, only one thing stands in his way: the "Lost and Found" box. (World Premiere)
Pussy (Poland)
Director/Screenwriter: Renata Gasiorowska
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
Summer Camp Island
Director/Screenwriter: Julia Pott
Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn't going to be totally normal.
Tough (UK)
Director: Jennifer Zheng
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
Wednesday with Goddard (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Nicolas Menard
A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. (U.S. Premiere)
Bite-sized bits for all of your sex, gore, and hilarity cravings.
Boss Bitch
Director: Winona Regan
Don't mess with a boss bitch. Dudes learn this the hard way in this animated short created by Winona Regan.
Coyanuscocksee (Canada)
Director: Gary Ye
Koyaanisqatsi, but with dicks (pls don't sue). (World Premiere)
Do No Harm (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Roseanne Liang
Save the patient. Nothing else.
Director: Tony Grayson
We take a poor humans person, like you, and treat them like a pawn in our game. It will be candy for your tum tum. Watch as neuroscientist, Wallace L. Graybill, attempts to receive money coins from grants for his important research. (World Premiere)
Hi Stranger
Director/Screenwriter: Kirsten Lepore
Hi Stranger. It's been a while... (World Premiere)
It Began Without Warning
Directors/Screenwriters: Santiago C. Tapia, Jessica Curtright
Change is coming. (World Premiere)
Director/Screenwriter: Sean U'Ren
Walking home from school, two boys discuss their problems with girls. (World Premiere)
Kookie (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Justin Harding
Bree, a dishonest 9-year-old receives a terrifying visitor after a parenting lesson goes horribly wrong.
Directors/Screenwriters: Celine Held, Logan George
Fueled by coke, Vanessa and Danny attempt to capitalize on an unlikely opportunity. (World Premiere)
Mr. Popular
Director/Screenwriter: Charlie Mayforth
A well-liked jock discovers the true dangers of his popularity when he encounters an obsessed classmate. (World Premiere)
The Saurus
Director/Screenwriter: Drew Maynard A man with a robust vocabulary must write a scornful letter to an old friend.
Summer's Puke is Winter's Delight (Japan)
Director/Screenwriter: Sawako Kabuki
Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco.
The Suplex Duplex Complex
Director: Todd Rohal, Screenwriters: Todd Rohal, Zack Carlson, Bryan Connelly
A neighboring pair of tag team wrestlers learn the downsides of life without a landlord. (World Premiere)
Tickle Monster (UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Remi Weekes
You better not giggle. (U.S. Premiere)
Whiskey Fist
Director/Screenwriter: Gillian Wallace Horvat
A branding intern loses the life he once had after an encounter with a mysterious blonde and her whiskey bottle -- magical realism ensues. (World Premiere)
An offshoot of our regular narrative shorts program, composed of work shot in, about, or somehow relating to the Lone Star state.
Beach Day
Directors: Matt Stryker, Dalton Allen
On a slow day, Matt and Dalton decide to go to the beach. (World Premiere)
Chasing Grace
Director/Screenwriter: Julia Barnett
A young woman reluctantly meets with her estranged father only to discover the truth about the events of the wild 70's summer that drove them apart. (World Premiere)
Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw)
Director/Screenwriter: Renee Zhan
Flap flap flap flap flap. A large bird and a small boy cohabit in an unhappy relationship, trapped by four walls and a mutual codependency.
Lucia, Before and After
Director/Screenwriter: Anu Valia
After traveling 200 miles, a young woman waits out Texas's state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed.
Director/Screenwriter: Hannah Whisenant
A young girl tries to get close to her absent mother by putting on her makeup, only to realize why she shouldn't emulate her.
The Rabbit Hunt
Director: Patrick Bresnan, Screenwriter: Ivete Lucas
On the weekends during harvest season, 17-year-old Chris and his family hunt rabbits in the sugarcane fields of the Florida Everglades.
Robert Ellis - 'California'
Directors: Erica Alexandria Silverman, Cullen Kelly, Screenwriter: Erica Alexandria Silverman The moment you fall in love and the moment it falls apart. Life is ephemeral, but we are lucky it happens at all.
The Wait (Mexico, USA)
Director/Screenwriter: Juan Pablo González
The Wait portrays at once the straits of immigrant life and the haunting soundscape of reprieve.
A preview of the next filmmaking generation, as Texas High Schoolers present shorts of 5 minutes or less.
After Thoughts
Director: Xavier Hernandez, Screenwriters: Xavier Hernandez, Cooper Shapiro
What goes through a teenagers mind after they have had intercourse? After Thoughts explores just that. Witness as a teenage woman and a teenage boy struggle to understand their feelings for each other.
All You Need
Directors/Screenwriters: Taylor Butler, Raven Robinson
Everyone's constantly searching for that one person who'll be there for them.
Be Anyone, Do Anything
Director: Alyssa "Midori" Brown
Be Anyone, Do Anything follows Krystle Starr at the 2016 Dallas Fan Expo and to her Comic Club at My Possibilities. She encourages nerd culture and shares advice along with James Enelow and Calen Hoffman to help those new to the convention scene.
Behind the Scenes
Director/Screenwriter: Jake Billard
A teenage with a film crew gets away with a robbery and murder.
Better Late Than Never
Director/Screenwriter: Atheena Frizzell
A teenage girl must figure out a way to keep a secret from her devout family.
Boxed In
Directors/Screenwriters: Andrew Fleming, Nate Grizzell
A young adult struggles with loss of his family. He sees no way to deal with his pain other than boxing.
Director/Screenwriter: Rohun Vora
Breakfast is a dramatic piece that explores a morning in the life of a broken marriage.
Director/Screenwriter: Demar Gunter
A young girl must find courage within herself to rebel against an oppressive society.
Darcy's Quinceañera
Director: Sam Cooper, Screenwriters: Sam Cooper, Jonathan Randall
Darcy's Quinceañera is a 360° multimedia audio-visual xxx-perience.
Director: Sarah Fonville, Screenwriters: Max Wilson, Madison Duckworth, Brennan Guffey
An injured bird of prey must figure out a way to take flight and soar to survive.
Game Room
Director/Screenwriter: Siri Ketha
A young girl has some family issues like no other. With intrusive parents and pressure to be perfect she is pushed over the edge. Like mother, like daughter, it's all just family matters.
Director: Rachel Schlesinger
Inge Stanton vowed to never return to Germany after she fled her home there days before World War II began. This film follows Inge as she returns to her hometown to show her children and grandchildren the world she escaped from as a little girl.
Jawn Otis's Wall
Directors: Carmela Moreno, Daisy Cervantes, Screenwriter: Carmela Moreno
"Jawn Otis's Wall" is about an 8 year old boy named Jawn Otis, who is abused by his single mother. Jawn escapes his home and gives us a glimpse into his daily routine to show us the true meaning of innocence.
La Mano
Director/Screenwriter: Grace Snyder
A tiny butler comes in handy.
Director/Screenwriter: Pierson Hawkins
Limbo is an experimental film chronicling the struggles of a man after entering purgatory and his endless efforts to escape.
Director/Screenwriter: Haley Bunn
Newcomers is a documentary about refugee students at Anderson High School who come from various background and face many challenges upon living here.
Directors/Screenwriters: Emily Ma, Grace Zhang
A girl embarks on a physical exploration to seek the answer of an age-old question: Who am I?
Red Line
Directors/Screenwriters: Quinn O'Brien, Arfa Chowdhary
A little girl finds herself on a train to discover new places.
Roll for Initiative
Directors/Screenwriters: Adam Weider, Cameron Potter
Four adventurers journey into an unforgiving thieves' den.
The Silent Paracosm
Director/Screenwriter: Dylan Banfield
The Silent Paracosm is a silent horror film following Faust , a young blind boy coming to terms with events that with change him deeply.
Split Ends
Director: Miranda Potter
A film portraying female body hair in a different, untraditional way.
Directors/Screenwriters: Kendra Fogleman, Logan Sullivan
Olivia, a senior in high school, takes advantage of an innocent freshman.
Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies are finding new ways to enhance our ability to perceive the world that surrounds us, and in many instances they are redefining how we experience the world. The 38 projects presented in our new Virtual Cinema emphasize storytelling, ingenuity and also showcase how other industries are embracing this new medium.
After Solitary
Directors: Cassandra Herrman, Lauren Mucciolo
"After Solitary," a collaboration between Emblematic Group and PBS' series FRONTLINE, allows viewers to experience interactively the story of 38-year-old Kenny Moore, a recently released inmate who spent years at a stretch in solitary confinement. (World Premiere)
Amor de Abuela (A Grandmother's Love) (Australia, Guatemala, USA)
Director: Jessie Hughes
A Guatemalan family's life is transformed when their grandmother gains access to electricity and light. (World Premiere)
BattleScar (Spain, USA)
Directors/Screenwriters: Nico Casavecchia, Martin Allais
BattleScar is a linear short film with interactive components that follows a year in the life of Lupe, a Puerto Rican-American, living in the 1978 Punk rock scene of New York City.
Behind The Fence
Directors: Lindsay Branham, Jonathan Olinger
The Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar must survive a Buddhist-led campaign to eliminate them. (World Premiere)
Director: Tyler Hurd
Cats, champagne and joy overflows in Chocolate, a psychedelic VR Music video experience set in a chrome cat-centric world, for the song Chocolate by Giraffage. By acclaimed VR creator Tyler Hurd. Presented by Viacom NEXT.
Cycling Pathways to Mars
Directors: Lex Halaby, Daniel Schechter, Guil Rambelli , Screenwriters: Buzz Aldrin, Andy Aldrin, Lex Halaby, Christina Korp
Buzz Aldrin's Cycling Pathways to Mars is a volumetric VR experience that takes you on a journey from the moon to Mars with Aldrin's hologram as your guide, and brings his vision of cyclers, landers and rovers, to life. (World Premiere)
Dear Pigeon Man (Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Daniël Ernst
Dear Pigeon Man is a hand painted virtual reality experience. It is the fifth piece of the Shoebox Dioramas, a series of virtual stories. All the stories in the series overlap, as the series grows so will the world of the Shoebox Dioramas.
DeathTolls Experience (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Director/Screenwriter: Ali Eslami
A virtual journey from the refugee crisis in Europe to the bloodbath in Syria, placing the dry "data reality" of the news in an emotional perspective. (U.S. Premiere)
Decay Theory (UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Nick Pittom
Decay Theory is an Episodic Sci-Fi Storytelling Experience, that follows the intergalactic adventures of SuRei, a young girl and FeiMa, the bio-mechanical horror that protects her.
Dreams of "O" (Canada)
Directors: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, Screenwriters: Francois Blouin, Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël
Dive into the hypnotic world of Dreams of ''O''. Submerge yourself into a virtual reality universe comprised of aerial acrobatics, daring dives, and the surreal amphibious characters of the breathtaking aquatic masterpiece "O" by Cirque du Soleil.
Fistful of Stars
Director/Screenwriter: Eliza McNitt
Fistful of Stars is the world's first Virtual Reality exploration of the cosmos alongside the Hubble Telescope that transports you inside of the Orion Nebula and reveals the cosmic connections between humans and the stars. (World Premiere)
The Giant
Director: New Media Ltd, Screenwriter: Mike Anderson
A tale of a girl who never stops growing, her destructive plight, and ultimate transcendence. (World Premiere)
In Harmony
Director: Elliot Dillman, Screenwriters: Chris Collins, Elliot Dillman
For some LA kids, music is not just a form of art, it's the key to overcoming the odds. When Deonte and Amy's high schools cut their music programs, The Harmony Project steps in with mentoring and music training. (World Premiere)
Life of Us
Directors: Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin
Life of Us is a shared VR journey from within that tells the complete story of the evolution of life on Earth. Created by Chris Milk & Aaron Koblin, with music by Pharrell Williams.
Mars 2030
In partnership with NASA and MIT's Space Systems Laboratory, FusionVR welcomes you to Mars 2030. This immersive experience lets you play the role of one of the first scientists tasked with establishing a human presence on the Red Planet. (World Premiere)
The Melody of Dust
Directors: Viacom NEXT, Hot Sugar
A musical journey for the HTC Vive. Explore a mysterious world where every object contains a unique melody. From Viacom NEXT and musician Hot Sugar, this experience brings you inside the fantasies of a romantic composer. (World Premiere)
Directors: Michael Catalano, Elliot Cole
Movements is an interactive experience for virtual reality that gives you the thrill of conducting a live orchestra.
Museum of the Impossible
Directors: Ben Vance, Kate Parsons
Museum of The Impossible (MOTI) is a new type of museum for virtual reality that curates the best in immersive art.
Next Nature Habitat VR (Netherlands)
Director: Koert van Mensvoort
The natural habitat of the polar bear is the Arctic. The natural habitat of the scorpion is the dessert. How about humans? What is our natural habitat? As a species, we need to discover what it means to live in a world where the born and the made are (North American Premiere)
Notes to My Father (India, UK, USA)
Director/Screenwriter: Jayisha Patel
Notes To My Father is a story of love, grief, and reconciliation, between father and daughter. (World Premiere)
Out of the Blue
Director/Screenwriter: Sophie Ansel
A family of fishermen in Mexico sacrifice their livelihood to save open ocean sea life from extinction. Narration by Sylvia Earle. (World Premiere)
Playthings VR
Director: George Michael Brower
Playthings puts virtual drumsticks in your hands and sets you loose on a musical playground from another world.
Directors: Ian Forester, Sook-Lei Liew, Phd
VR Playhouse has partnered with neuroscientist Dr. Sook-Lei Liew and her team at USC's Neural Plasticity and Neurorehabilitation Lab to create content for Reinvent, a new method that uses VR to promote motor recovery for victims of severe strokes. (World Premiere)
Rise Above
Director: Ben Ross
One girl's journey of empowerment as she confronts and overcomes abuse. (World Premiere)
See Beyond Labels
Director: Sarah Hill, Screenwriter: StoryUP Studios
An examination of bias through the stories of six people who are often seen through societal filters. (World Premiere)
Show It 2 Me
Directors: Mark Brooks, Dylan Carter
An interactive music video created using Tilt Brush's audio reactive brushes featuring Night Club's single, "Show It 2 Me." (World Premiere)
Spatium (UK)
Directors/Screenwriters: Roland Lane, Alex Lambert
INITION and Roland Lane take you on a journey inspired by a famous hat by legendary designer Philip Treacy. In VR, structure and form are explored on a scale that escapes the bounds of the physical, creating a fantasy of light, sound and shadow. (World Premiere)
Square the Circle (Netherlands)
Directors: Harm van de Ven, Sara Kolster
Square the Circle is an interactive experience which explores the possibilities of interacting with Touch controllers in room scale.
Synesthesia (Netherlands, USA)
Director: Kaleidoscope VR
Synesthesia is an interactive experience comprised of six movements each inspired by a different stage of life.
Use Your Imagination
Director: Roberto Drilea, Screenwriters: Roberto Drilea, Garth Herberg, Jason Weissbrod
A VR musical written and performed by young artists on the autism spectrum. (World Premiere)
Vestige (UK)
Director: Aaron Bradbury
Vestige is a journey into the mind of a man who lost his lover in a car accident.
Vibrant Matter
Director: FLOAT
A Within Original Experience, Vibrant Matter invites you to step inside a new world pulsing with an original score by Toro Y Moi. Twist and play through memories as you explore this new dimension. (World Premiere)
Director: EDWON
Waba is an interactive video game character, empathic petting simulator, and virtual wobble pet combined into one.
We Who Remain (Sudan, USA)
Directors: Sam Wolson, Trevor Snapp
We Who Remain is an immersive live action documentary that explores life during a brutal fighting season in Sudan's decades long civil war. (World Premiere)
Women on the Move (Niger, USA)
Director: Shannon Carroll, Screenwriters: Shannon Carroll, Kate Crosby, Brian Feagans, Raegan Hodge, Andisheh Nouraee
A woman in Niger joins a local women's savings group to fund previously unattainable opportunities for girls—including her own granddaughter. (World Premiere)
Wonder Buffalo VR
Director: Christine T. Berg, Screenwriters: Christine Berg, Simon Shterenberg
Just another Saturday listening to records and drawing comics until Ann is challenged by an archnemisis: her mother. Tired of being called a fat lazy water buffalo, Ann stands up for herself. Find the hero within. The Wonder Buffalo VR Experience.
A range of classic, innovative, and stylish work showcasing the scope of music video culture.
Avalanches - 'Subways' (France) / The Directors/Screenwriters: Mrzyk and Moriceau
Beyoncé - 'Formation' / Director: Melina Matsoukas
Blonde Redhead - 'Dripping' / Director: Eric Wareheim
BOKKA - 'Answer Me' (Poland) / Director: Katarzyna Sawicka
DJ Shadow ft. Run the Jewels - 'Nobody Speak' (UK) / Director: Sam Pilling
Frank Ocean - 'Nikes' (UK) / Director: Tyrone Lebon
Hinds - 'Garden' (UK) / Director/Screenwriter: Pedro Martin-Calero
Khruangbin - 'Two Fish and an Elephant' (UK) / Director: Scott Dungate
Leon Bridges - 'River' / Director/Screenwriter: Miles Jay
LORN - 'ANVIL' (France, UK) / Directors/Screenwriters: Hélène Jeudy, Antoine Caëcke
Millington - 'Being' (Australia) / Directors: Josh Thomas, Darcy Prendergast
Mykki Blanco ft. Woodkid - 'High School Never Ends' (Germany) / Director: Matt Lambert, Screenwriters: Matt Lambert, Mykki Blanco
Pussy Riot - 'Straight Outta Vagina' / Director: Phillip R Lopez
Roseau - 'Disintegrate' (UK) / Director: Hannah Jacobs
Run the Jewels ft. Gangsta Boo - 'Love Again' (UK, USA) / Director: Ninian Doff
Symbion Project - 'Arcadian' / Director/Screenwriter: Sherif Alabede
Tame Impala - 'The Less I Know The Better' (Spain) / Director: CANADA
Tesla Boy - 'Circles' / Director: Ryan Patrick
Yeasayer - 'I Am Chemistry' / Director/Screenwriter: New Media Ltd
Zeds Dead ft. Rivers Cuomo & Pusha T - 'Too Young' (Canada) / Director: Chris Ullens, Screenwriters: Chris Ullens, Jade Bogue, Jamie Durand
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The Crown / Company: Elastic / Designer: Patrick Clair
De 16 / Company: GRID VFX / Designer: Willem Wallyn
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Dr. Strange / Company: Sarofsky / Designer: Erin Sarofsky
El Rey Tuerto (The OneEyedKing) / Company: Pavlo Sánchez / Designer: Pablo Sánchez
Golden Life / Company: Digital Apes / Designer: Gergely Regula
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Into The Current / Company: CR Moberg / Designers: Chris R Moberg and Jared Young
IRA (Wrath) / Company: Pastrana Lab / Designers: Kike A. Pastrana and Ángel A. Pastrana
Jessica Jones / Company: Imaginary Forces / Designer: Michelle Dougherty
LOCA / Company: Gabaeff Pictures, The Creative Alliance / Designer: Robert Baek
New York City Blues / Company: Ian Glaum / Designer: Ian Glaum
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Outsiders / Company: Shine / Designer: Michael Riley
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Preacher / Company / Picturemill / Designer: William Lebeda
The Shannara Chronicles / Company: Huge Designs / Designers: Paul McDonnell, Hugo Moss, Ben Hanbury
St. Nickel / Company: Oily Film Company Inc. & Morro Creative / Designers: Jay Bond and Garry Tutte
Stranger Things / Company: Imaginary Forces / Designer: Michelle Dougherty
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Found an interesting interview on Soren's blog where he's the one interviewing the developers of Fall from Heaven total conversion:
A History of Fall from Heaven (Part I)
A History of Fall from Heaven (Part II)
Lots of great insights into what it takes to build a serious mod, how to control a community, reason for contribution and a developer's take on whether it was worth the effort opening it up.
Part 3 is up too, along with Soren's analysis of the mod.
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text: For such a small device, the plastic, handheld USB flash drive can cause big security headaches. Even if you have robust end-point security and establish rigid policies about employee use of these drives, employees still find a way to copy financial reports and business plans for use at home. While other security breaches are more traceable, a flash drive is more difficult to monitor, especially after the employee leaves work.\n\nSome security professionals suggest a radical approach to locking down USB flash drives. Sean Greene, a security consultant at Evidence Solutions, advises his clients to use a clear silicone caulk and fill every USB port on every PC to prevent USB attachments. He says the only way employees can transmit sensitive business documents is by email, a method that his clients can easily monitor. \n\nChris Harget, a spokesperson for security vendor ActivIdentity, adds that many military organizations don't allow the drives at all, and they have resorted to gluing USB ports closed to prevent breaches.\n\nYet, in the modern IT climate, CIOs know they have to provide the services employees need to do their jobs, and that can include using a USB drive. For example, in a sales organization, employees often need to load PowerPoint slides, which may contain company financials, onto a USB flash drive.\n\nSome organizations have found ways to deter data breaches while still allowing employees to use the devices. A common theme is to have the data encrypted. "For low-cost drives that do not contain their own encryption engines, a strong software-based encryption solution is fine and can meet even the lower-end government certifications," says John Girard, a Gartner analyst. "The best practice is to never write data to external media that was not encrypted in the first place."\n\nHere we profile four organizations that have taken slightly different approaches to dealing with thumb-drive security to match the organizations' specific needs and policies.1. City of Columbus\nApproach: Uses Intelligent ID software to categorize files, and then assign a level of encryption on the fly.\n\nThe City of Columbus is serious about thumb-drive security. "Because this external media could be easily lost or stolen, we are concerned about intellectual property theft and the loss of sensitive data, whether maliciously or accidentally," says the city government's CIO, Gary Cavin.\n\nThe city uses classification software from vendor Intelligent ID that does more than just encrypt data during file transfer. The software can be configured to encrypt data for a specific type of user or department, or even for specific file types, such as Microsoft Excel files. \n\nCavin says the city even marks files for encryption based on the data contained in the file. If the software finds a file with a Social Security number, the data is automatically encrypted. To read the files, an employee needs an encryption key. In some cases, they can transfer files in a rush to a flash drive, then request that IT send them the encryption key later to open the files.\n\nDerek Brink, an analyst at Aberdeen Group, says Columbus is using what he calls an "active\/fine-grained" approach, where every sensitive file is encrypted and the city constantly monitors all thumb-drive data transfers. By using the encryption keys, the city is also able to control how the data is accessed once the thumb drives leave the premises.2. Turkcell\nApproach: Uses classification software from Titus that monitors Microsoft Office business documents and alerts users when they try to copy that data to a thumb drive.\n\nTurkcell is one of the largest wireless carriers in Turkey, with more than 30 million subscribers, 2,800 employees, and about 5,000 computers installed in the corporate office in Istanbul. The company classifies every file and adds encryption when employees use thumb drives, but they also use a unique alerting system to warn users that they are about to copy sensitive data.\n\nGurkan Paplia, manager of enterprise infrastructure and security, says the company encrypts confidential data transfers to thumb drives. But it also uses Titus Classification for Office because most of the transfers for Microsoft Office files require extra security. (Also, the existing encryption engine they use can lead to false positives, flagging files as confidential when they are not.)\n\nGirard says a default approach for any large company should be to block writing to any thumb drive. If there is a situation where a file must be copied, the employee can call the help desk for authorization based on job requirements and manager approval. That's what Turkcell has automated with the pop-up alerts.\n\nOrganizations should use a "least privilege" approach to thumb-drive security, similar to how Turkcell only allows the transfer of Office files, adds Damon Petraglia, a director at Chartstone, a security services company. CIOs should determine whether a department or specific employee really needs to transfer files to a thumb drive; if they do, the company should find a way to allow only certain types of files. In other cases, thumb drives should not even be allowed.\n\n"If an employee does not absolutely need to use USB devices and thumb drives to complete his or her business functions, then these ports or avenues should be disabled," he says. "The only USB ports which should be open are dedicated to only those employees where it is essential to the business function."3. CIGNA\nApproach: Allows employees to copy encrypted data, but they are prompted to type in a reason why they're copying. The reasons are later compared to the actual file transfers.\n\nAt CIGNA, one of the largest health insurance companies in the U.S., with nearly 20,000 employees, the goal is to provide employees with enough flexibility to get their jobs done. Craig Shumard, former chief information security officer, says employees are allowed to use USB flash drives to transfer files, but there's a security strategy, too.\n\nFirst, Shumard says, the company uses Verdasys Digital Guardian software to monitor all ports and encrypt data transfers. He says he is surprised how many large organizations do not take this basic step. Next, when employees try to transfer files to a thumb drive, they are prompted to type in the reasons for the transfer. Later, the data they actually transferred is compared to those reasons.\n\nThis approach gives the employee the sense that they have the ability to transfer the files, but there will be accountability for those actions. Shumard says the approach reduced the anxiety employees have over doing their jobs - they might need to transfer files in a pinch to take them home for the night, and the employee might even decide it is more important to get the work done than to be secure.\n\nBrink describes the approach at CIGNA as "active\/coarse-grained," in that the health insurance company uses heavy encryption, blocks and even quarantines files, and monitors behavior -- but the policies also include end-user justification for the file transfer and gives employees a sense of control. 4. University of Alabama, Birmingham Health System\nApproach: Uses DeviceLock to monitor ports and encrypt data. Allows staff and students to use thumb drives at will, but all file transfers are monitored and recorded.\n\nWhile many organizations rely on encryption to protect from thumb drive breaches, that is not the only approach available. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System, about 1,700 employees routinely use thumb drives, mostly for copying PowerPoint slides. However, as an organization that must adhere to HIPPA standards for patient records, the UAB Health System uses a multi-pronged approach.\n\nFirst, in most cases, most USB ports are blocked entirely using DeviceLock software. This prevents most unauthorized file transfers. When doctors have a legitimate need to use a thumb drive, they can use an approved IronKey thumb drive that adds encryption. The software maintains a strict whitelist of approved IronKey drives assigned to employees. \n\nThe medical center chose this approach after conducting research about three years ago, says Terrell Herzig, the data security officer at UAB Health System. The organization monitored the use of all USB ports to see which files were transferred, and found that employees were using all sorts of USB thumb drives, as well as many brands of USB audio recorders. \n\nToday, most employees will see an alert when they try to transfer files to an unapproved thumb drive. They can then call the help desk to request an IronKey drive to use. Using only approved devices affords a few other advantages. One is that the organization can shadow-copy file transfers to keep a record of which files were transmitted. Herzig says employees can also use the 1GB drives for other purposes while travelling or for home use.\n\nBrink, the Aberdeen analyst, says the UAB Health System approach matches the "active\/fine-grained" security that the City of Columbus uses, relying on encryption and monitoring, but focuses more on the thumb drive itself. He says organizational policies shouldn't be too soft or too hard (such as blocking access to almost all thumb drives) but should find a balance where the organization adopts standards and can encrypt on the fly.\n\nPetraglia also urges companies to use a multi-pronged security approach to thumb drives where there are several tactics employed, not just one. "Once the data is on an employee's thumb drive the organization no longer controls it," he says, leaving the data open for theft. "The employees can [then] make copies or send that data from and to computers outside of the organization."\n\nWhether the chosen security approach is to allow only one approved thumb drive, prompt users for the reasons they need to copy data, allow only Microsoft Office transfers, or classify files for approved transfers, each technique addresses one simple reality: Employees will use thumb drives, and they will find ways to continue using them. \nJohn Brandon is a former IT manager at a Fortune 100 company who now writes about technology.


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A Compelling, Compassionate, Critique of Conservative Extremism by David Frum
November 25, 2011
the [Republican] party is getting the big questions disastrously wrong
[David Frum on the GOP's Lost Sense of Reality (New York Magazine, 20 November 2011)]
David Frum, former economics speechwriter for former U.S. President George W. Bush, offers a sharp critique of the Republican Party in an interview with NPR's Steve Innskeep yesterday, David Frum asks "When did the GOP lose touch?". The interview was prompted by Frum's recent article in the current issue of New York Magazine, which is impressive in its breadth and depth ... and, I would argue, its compassion.
I often feel incensed at some of the things I hear and read conservatives saying and writing. Frum's article helps provide some context for some of the perspectives presumably felt and sometimes articulated by some conservatives, but does so largely without being condescending. I'm reminded of one of the central tenets of non-violent communication: communication designed to induce fear, shame and/or guilt in a listener often arises from conscious or unconscious fear, shame and/or guilt on the part of the speaker. I'm also uncomfortably reminded of my own tendencies toward projection and rejection ... which are [also] reflected in the subtitle of Frum's article:
Some of my Republican friends ask if I've gone crazy. I say: Look in the mirror.
I highly recommend reading the entire article, and its complementary companion article by Jonathan Chait, who until recently was senior editor at The New Republic, How Did Liberals Become So Unreasonable (although frankly, I did not find Chait's article as compelling ... or compassionate). Here, I wanted share a few excerpts highlighting some key observations Frum makes regarding the rightward GOP shift(s).
- On Fiscal Austerity and Economic Stagnation:
... the big winners in the American fiscal system are the rich, the old, the rural, and veterans—typically conservative constituencies. ... Any serious move to balance the budget, or even just reduce the deficit a little, must inevitably cut programs conservative voters do like: Medicare for current beneficiaries, farm subsidies, veterans' benefits, and big tax loopholes like the mortgage-interest deduction and employer-provided health benefits. The rank and file of the GOP are therefore caught between their interests and their ideology—intensifying their suspicion that shadowy Washington elites are playing dirty tricks upon them.
- On Ethnic Competition:
[In a National Journal article based on a Gallup poll of Republican voters, Second Verse, Same as the First, Ron Brownstein reports that] "... noncollege whites are the gloomiest: Just one-third of them think their kids will live better than they do; an equal number think their children won't even match their living standard. No other group is nearly that negative." Those fears are not irrational. ... It is precisely these disaffected whites—especially those who didn't go to college—who form the Republican voting base.
- On Fox News and Talk Radio:
Extremism and conflict make for bad politics but great TV. Over the past two decades, conservatism has evolved from a political philosophy into a market segment. An industry has grown up to serve that segment—and its stars have become the true thought leaders of the conservative world. The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).
- On [what I would call] unenlightened self-interest:
We used to say "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts." Now we are all entitled to our own facts, and conservative media use this right to immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend information. ... [sinister GOP] billionaires do exist, and some do indeed attempt to influence the political process. ... Yet, for the most part, these Republican billionaires are not acting cynically. They watch Fox News too, and they're gripped by the same apocalyptic fears as the Republican base. In funding the tea-party movement, they are actually acting against their own longer-term interests, for it is the richest who have the most interest in political stability, which depends upon broad societal agreement that the existing distribution of rewards is fair and reasonable. If the social order comes to seem unjust to large numbers of people, what happens next will make Occupy Wall Street look like a street fair.
- "a going-out-of-business sale for the baby-boom generation":
Some call this the closing of the conservative mind. Alas, the conservative mind has proved itself only too open, these past years, to all manner of intellectual pollen. Call it instead the drying up of conservative creativity. ... In the aftershock of 2008, large numbers of Americans feel exploited and abused. Rather than workable solutions, my party is offering low taxes for the currently rich and high spending for the currently old, to be followed by who-knows-what and who-the-hell-cares. This isn't conservatism; it's a going-out-of-business sale for the baby-boom generation.
Frum finishes off the article with a call for conservative moderates to speak up:
I refuse to believe that I am the only Republican who feels this way. If CNN's most recent polling is correct, only half of us sympathize with the tea party. However, moderate-minded people dislike conflict—and thus tend to lose to people who relish conflict. The most extreme voices in the GOP now denounce everybody else as Republicans in Name Only. But who elected them as the GOP's membership committee?
During this period of increasing protests against inequality and injustice - on Wall Street and other streets in America, as well as on streets and squares in Egypt and elsewhere around the world - I'm reminded of earlier widespread protests against the Vietnam War ... and former Republican President Richard Nixon's claims during that period to be the spokesperson for what he called the silent majority, and his largely successful efforts to divide and polarize the American people ... and claims made by the more recently self-appointed Republican spokespeople of real Americans.
However, harking back to that earlier period of protest also reminds me of the wisdom of an inspiring liberal who, like Frum, [also] called for moderation in words and actions in the cause of promoting change: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Although Frum and King espouse different perspectives on the types of changes that are likely to lead to a greater Good, a vigorous, non-violent debate seems like the most likely course to lead toward improvements in politics and society.


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Norwest Venture Partners has promoted Matthew Howard and Jeff Crowe to managing partner, and Sonya Brown to general partner. The firm also announced that Promod Haque has been named to senior managing partner.
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), a global multi-stage investment firm, today announced that Matthew Howard and Jeff Crowe have been promoted to Managing Partner, and Sonya Brown has been promoted to General Partner.
NVP strengthens its leadership team as the firm enters 2013 with significant growth and investment momentum across multiple stages, regions and sectors. During the last 12 months, NVP made 30 new venture and growth equity investments globally, grew the firm to 80 employees worldwide, and brought its total number of active portfolio companies to more than 100.
Also announced today, Promod Haque has been named to Senior Managing Partner at NVP. Haque continues his leadership position at the firm, making and overseeing new investments and playing an active role on the boards of such NVP portfolio companies as Apigee, CareCloud, Cyan, FireEye, Health Catalyst, PCH International, Virtela and Yatra. After nearly 25 years with NVP, Managing Partner George Still is transitioning to Partner Emeritus.
"Today's promotions recognize the deep talent and strong contributions our partners have made to our firm and our portfolio companies," said Haque. "Jeff and Matt have delivered outstanding results to NVP over the years and earned the respect of the entrepreneurs and investors with whom they've worked. They have both played an integral role in building NVP globally and adding significantly to our firm's culture and overall success. We look forward to their ongoing contributions and leadership as managing partners in the years ahead."
The NVP Growth Equity team has seen strong growth in the past year, expanding to 13 investment professionals in the U.S. and investing more than $250 million in seven new companies. "Sonya has been a tremendous asset to our growth equity team and a strong contributor to our firm," Haque added. "We're pleased to recognize Sonya and look forward to continued success in her general partner role at NVP."
Matthew Howard joined NVP in 2000 with 25 years of experience in marketing, product management, engineering, business development and sales in a wide range of technologies. Matt leads NVP's Enterprise & Infrastructure sector team that actively partners with entrepreneurs in the big data, cloud infrastructure, healthcare IT, enterprise systems, mobile, security and storage sectors. NVP has invested more than $80 million in new venture investments in these sectors during the last 12 months, including such companies as ClearDATA Networks, Health Catalyst, Pertino, Elemental Technologies, Skybox Imaging, Seculert, ScaleIO and Act-On Software.
Matt has appeared on the Forbes Midas List as a top 100 investor for three years. He focuses on mobile, security, rich media, cloud based services/applications, networking and storage investments at NVP and currently serves on the boards of Avere Systems, Blue Jeans Network, ConteXtream, Exablox, Hadapt, MobileIron and Pertino Networks. He is a board observer at FireEye. Previously, Matt was on the board of Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), Omneon (acquired by Harmonic), Reconnex (acquired by McAfee), Retrevo (acquired by Shopzilla), Skystream Networks (acquired by Tandberg Television), SpectraLinear (acquired by Silicon Laboratories), Spinnaker Networks (acquired by Network Appliance), Summit Microelectronics (acquired by Qualcomm), Swan Labs (acquired by F5 Networks) and Webstacks (acquired by Extreme Networks). He was a board observer with Veraz Networks (Nasdaq: VRAZ), Yipes (acquired by Reliance/Flag Telecom) and ZettaCom (acquired by IDT).
Before joining NVP, Matt was an early employee of Cisco. After joining the company in 1992, Matt held a number of senior positions with Cisco's IOS organization and the Internet Business Unit. Previously, Matt was vice president of marketing at Vertical Communications and held various positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, BDM International, and Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) Communications Corporation. He began his career as a cryptological analyst with the U.S. Naval Security Group. Matt served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense (DeVenCI) Program. He also holds one patent in mobility and two in cyber security. Matt holds a bachelor of business administration, with an emphasis in information systems, and a master of science degree in telecommunications management. View Matt Howard's complete biography here.
Jeff Crowe joined NVP in 2004 and focuses on Internet, consumer and software investments at NVP. Jeff leads NVP's Internet & Consumer sector team that actively partners with entrepreneurs in the ad tech, consumer services, digital media, e-Commerce, enabling Internet technologies, mobile, retail and social sectors. The team has invested in such market leaders as Adaptive Planning, Badgeville, The Echo Nest, Gemvara, Gilt Groupe, Lending Club, Lumosity, ModCloth, Motif Investing, Quirky, Rafter, Turn and WhaleShark Media (RetailMeNot.com). NVP has invested more than $80 million in new venture investments in the enabling Internet technologies and e-Commerce sectors during the last 12 months.
Jeff currently serves on the boards of AdChina, All Reach Media, Badgeville, deCarta, Extole, InfoArmy, Lending Club, Nano-Tex, SocialVibe, The Echo Nest, Turn and WhaleShark Media. He is also involved with Lashou. Jeff's previous investments include Admeld (acquired by Google), Jigsaw (acquired by Salesforce.com), Tuvox (acquired by West Interactive), and he was a board observer at Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM).
Prior to NVP, Jeff served as President, COO and board member of DoveBid, Inc., a privately held business auction firm, which expanded during his tenure via internal growth and acquisition from a $10M revenue run rate to a $120M revenue run rate with 400 employees. From 1990 to 1999, Jeff was co-founder, President, CEO and Board member of Edify Corporation, a venture backed company focused on voice and internet e-commerce platforms and applications. Edify held its IPO in 1996 and was sold to S1 Corporation in 1999. Previously, Jeff worked at ROLM Corporation, IBM and Siemens in marketing and general management. Jeff led the marketing for the voice messaging division within ROLM, which grew from startup to $50M in revenue. Jeff holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College. View Jeff Crowe's complete biography here.
Sonya Brown joined NVP in 2011. She has more than a decade of growth equity experience and is focused on investing across a wide range of sectors including consumer, information services, software, business services and financial services. Sonya is a part of the NVP Growth Equity team which has grown to 13 investment professionals in the U.S. and 19 growth equity investment professionals globally. The U.S. Growth Equity team invested more than $250 million in seven new companies over the last 12 months, including such companies as Alarm Capital Alliance (ACA), Manta Media, PICS, Rainmaker Group and other transactions that have not yet been announced. The team continues to expand to pursue the many prospects it is seeing – particularly fast growing companies with strong market positions, significant revenue and net income traction.
Sonya currently sits on the board of directors of Alarm Capital Alliance (ACA), as well as two other undisclosed NVP growth equity companies. Previously, Sonya was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm with more than $11 billion under management, where she worked for nine years in the Boston office and was responsible for leading the firm's Consumer and Internet Industry Group in North America. Her most recent and past board directorships and investments include Aramsco, Airborne Health, Central Security Group, Physicians Formula Holdings (NASDAQ: FACE), Snap Fitness and Sparta Systems.
Prior to Summit, Sonya was a founder and General Partner of iXL Ventures in 1999, where she oversaw the funding and growth of numerous technology and Internet companies. In addition, she was Vice President of Corporate Development for the parent company iXL Enterprises, Inc., one of the largest global web development companies at that time. Sonya began her career in the investment banking division of Bear Stearns where she worked on numerous consumer and media transactions. Sonya holds a bachelor of science degree from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In addition, she is a Chartered Financial Analyst. View Sonya Brown's complete biography here.
About Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a multi-stage investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years. The firm manages over $3.7 billion in capital and has funded more than 500 companies since inception. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. For more information visit: www.nvp.com. Follow NVP on Twitter @NorwestVP.


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Yahoo! Mash is shutting down
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Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking
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Was engineer in fatal Amtrak wreck distracted?
DUPONT, Wash. - (AP) -- Federal investigators in the deadly Amtrak wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit.
Three people were killed Monday when the train barreled into a 30 mph zone at 80 mph and plunged off an overpass, sending rail cars plummeting onto a busy interstate highway south of Seattle.
A conductor in training was in the locomotive with the engineer at the time, investigators said. A federal official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity said authorities want to know whether the engineer lost "situational awareness" -- didn't realize where he was -- because of that.
On Tuesday, National Transportation Safety Board member Bella Dinh-Zarr said preliminary information indicated the train's emergency brake went off automatically and was not manually activated by the engineer. That could mean he did not realize the danger.
The engineer, whose name was not released, was bleeding from the head after the derailment and his eyes were swollen shut, according to radio transmissions from a crew member. The transmissions mentioned a second person in the front of the train who was also hurt.
In some previous wrecks, train operators were found to have been seriously fatigued or distracted by a cellphone or something else.
Investigators in Monday's accident also confirmed that technology that can automatically slow or stop a speeding train, known as positive train control, was not in use on that stretch of track. Track sensors and other PTC components have been installed, but the system is not expected to be completed until the spring.
Regulators have been pressing railroads for years to install such technology, and some have done so, but the deadline has been extended repeatedly at the industry's request and is now set for the end of 2018.
Dinh-Zarr said it is too early in the investigation to say whether positive train control would have prevented Monday's tragedy but noted that a mandate to install the system on tracks nationwide by 2015 had been pushed back by Congress.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that failing to enforce the new deadline would be a "moral failure."
"If we do nothing else in this Congress, let us insist that that deadline without additional delay," the Connecticut Democrat said.
Investigators will talk to the engineer and other crew members and review the data recorders from the lead locomotive and the rear engine. They are also trying to extract data from inward- and outward-facing on-board cameras that were damaged in the crash, Dinh-Zarr said.
The train, with 85 passengers and crew members, was making the inaugural run along a fast, new 15-mile bypass route. Investigators are looking into what training was required of the engineer and other crew members to operate on the new stretch of track, said Ted Turpin, the lead NTSB investigator of the crash.
"Under Amtrak policy he couldn't run this train without being qualified and running this train previously," Turpin said of the engineer.
At least some of the crew had been doing runs on the route for two weeks before the crash, including a Friday ride-along for local dignitaries, Dinh-Zarr added.
The conductor training in the cab was familiarizing himself with the new route, which is expected of conductors before they start work on a new itinerary, she said. A second conductor was in the passenger sections of the train at the time.
In an accident with strong similarities, an Amtrak train traveling at twice the 50 mph (80 kph) speed limit ran off the rails along a sharp curve in Philadelphia in 2015, killing eight people. Investigators concluded the engineer was distracted by reports over the radio of another train getting hit by a rock.
In September, a judge threw out charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment against the engineer, saying the crash did not appear to rise to a crime. Prosecutors are trying to get the case reinstated.
Amtrak agreed to pay $265 million to settle claims filed by the victims and their families. It has also installed positive train control on all its track between Boston and Washington.
Balsamo reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Phuong Le and Sally Ho in Seattle, Michael Sisak in Philadelphia, Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Washington and Manuel Valdes in Dupont contributed to this report.
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