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SXSW2022: Hybrid SXSW Festival Celebration from March 11-20 in Austin, TX
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 13, 2022 - 9:37am
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‘Everything Everywhere at Once’ was Opening Night Film at 2022 SXSW Fest
Photo credit: SXSW.com
The hybrid 2022 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival will take place March 11th through March 20th. For tickets, events schedule and all information click on SXSW.com
© 2022 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com
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CHICAGO – The 2022 SXSW Festival opened Friday with in person events for the first time in THREE years, with its unique mix of music, film, VR and associative networking opportunities. The Opening Night Film on Friday was the Asian American sci-fi film “Everything Everywhere at Once.” There are also participatory online opportunities, for information on joining in, click SXSW2022.
There will be many advantages and unique opportunities through this event, centered as usual in Austin, Texas, including the keynote, conference sessions, music festival showcases, film festival screenings, world-class networking, online exhibitions, and the unexpected discoveries that are always a part of SXSW.
‘Everything Everywhere at Once’ was Opening Night Film at 2022 SXSW Fest
Photo credit: SXSW.com
The SXSW fest had origins in New York City in 1986, as it was suggested to a rock journalist in Austin, Texas, to extend a New Music Seminar that took place in NYC and make it “New Music Seminar Southwest.” That fell through, so the journalist (Roland Swanson of The Austin Chronicle) organized a local music festival in 1987 with co-founders Lewis Black and Nick Barbaro. Black came up with the South by Southwest moniker, a take-off on Alfred Hitchcock film title “North by Northwest.”
Here is a highlight reel from the opening events of SXSW2022 …
 | By PATRICK McDONALD |
