SXSWclick Finalists Announced,

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival is happy to announce the 15 finalists selected for the 2007 SXSWclick Festival, a 4-year old online shorts event. Three finalists from five categories will spend the month competing for prizes and a slot at the
2008 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX. The finalists can be seen at:
http://sxswclick.com/watch.

SXSW unveiled the 15 finalists, collected from worldwide submissions, divided into five categories: ³Old School Shorts,² ³Really Real Shorts,² ³Animate-It,² ³Sound Checks,² and ³What the F*#!?² The general public is invited to vote for the ³Popularity Contest² audience award, while a panel of judges will determine the Jury Awards for each section. Prizes include software, in-kind services, and a slot at next year¹s Film Festival. A single ³Grand Jury Prize² winner will also receive a Mac Pro Workstation courtesy of mobile-shorts Web site, iThentic.

The 2007 SXSWclick Jury includes actor Kal Penn ("The Namesake"), comedian Bob Odenkirk "(Mr. Show," "The Brothers Solomon"), filmmakers Doug Pray ("Scratch"), Craig Zobel ("Great World of Sound"), Michael Tully ("Silver Jew"), and AJ Schnack ("Kurt Cobain About a Son"), online personalities Agnes Varnum and Violet Blue, and many more. Winners will be announced August 1, on the official Web site. The SXSWclick Finalists are as follows:

Old School Shorts: ³1000 Year Sleep,² ³Mac¹s First Time,² ³Peterson¹s Savings and Loan²

Really Real Shorts: ³Every Picture I Took Last Year,² ³Review,² ³Ubuntu²

Animate-It: ³Corporate Whore,² ³Pierre,² ³Sloths on a Tank²

Sound Checks: ³Always Near,² ³Falling Up,² ³Not Until Now²

What the F*#!?: ³Math Bus,² ³Orphans,² ³The Timebox Twins²

This is the fourth annual edition of the SXSWclick Festival, a summertime online/mobile initiative operated by the SXSW Film, Interactive, and Music Festivals. The 2007 SXSWclick Festival is presented by Cellfish. More information on SXSWclick, can be found at: http://sxswclick.com. SXSW will host its 2008 events, March 7-16, in Austin, TX. More information on SXSW is available at http://sxsw.com.

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