NewsMonsters and Dragon Tattoo at SXSW
South by Southwest (SXSW) has unveiled its film lineup, which includes 119 features - 55 of them world premieres. The internationally acclaimed, nine-day Festival celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent, with a truly diverse program ranging from provocative documentaries to subversive Hollywood comedies.
Gareth Edward's debut feature Monsters for Vertigo Films will be making its world premiere on Saturday March 13th in the ‘SX Fantastic' lineup.
'Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an ‘Infected Zone'. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures". Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.' - SXSW
Also screening at SXSW in the ‘Festival Favourites' section is Director Niels Arden Oplev's smash hit film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Based on Stieg Larsson's bestselling novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tells the story of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who is asked by a friend to investigate the forty year old case of a young girl's disappearance from a small island, an island inhabited solely by members of the tight-knit Vanger family. The investigation takes Blomkvist and his accomplice, hacker Lisbeth Salander, deep into a mire of multiple murders and family secrets.
The festival in Austin, Texas, kicks off on Friday March 12th 2010.