SXSWclick + Current.

"Real life" festivals will always play a vital role in "real life" communities and, as Robert Davis has pointed out so very well, they're thriving and merrily multiplying. A good thing, even a great thing.

At the same time, online film festivals are suddenly thriving and merrily multiplying as well. There's Sundance, of course, and many others, right on up to the newest of the bunch, our very own. In its second year, SXSWclick has a new name - and now, a new partner as well: Current, the new cable network launched by Al Gore and partner Joel Hyatt, or rather, to be really and truly and officially launched on August 1.

Details of the partnership will be spilling forth soon, but the gist for Matt Dentler, Producer of SXSW Film, is greater exposure for the indie film and video makers submitting their work to SXSWclick.

Posted by dwhudson at June 1, 2005 12:36 PM