Two of the masterminds behind the acclaimed graphic memoir “March,” Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, visited the University of Texas at Austin on Friday, Mar. 24.
Local filmmakers Shannon Cloud and Kent Juliff sat down with ORANGE to talk about their recent festival experience and how standup comedy influences their creative process.
Last Monday, three experienced speakers shared their stories and research at a South by Southwest panel discussion about the representation of disability in the media.
Director Ben Wheatley’s “Free Fire” (2016) premiered in the United States as a headliner of the SXSW Film Festival on Monday at the Paramount Theater in downtown Austin. The one-setting crime and comedy thriller shocked the audience’s minds and hearing with its twisting plotline and ear-shattering sound bites, containing over 7,000 rounds of ammunition fired.
On Saturday, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, senior editorial director at Mic, and Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change considered how communities can move from meme to protest through online activism.
On Friday, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer joined Emily Ramshaw, editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune, on a panel discussion about the evolving state of politics.
On Tuesday Mar. 7, Gina Chen, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and former journalist, led the "Nasty Talk" forum over online political incivility.
