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NEW YORK -- The popcorn will be bring your own and the barbecue won't be as good, but the Austin, Texas, SXSW Film Festival is moving online after having its 27th edition canceled by the coronavirus pandemic.

Over two dozen students have tested positive for coronavirus from the University of Texas after going to Mexico for spring break.

South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, on Tuesday (March 24) went ahead with the festival’s film awards.

South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, on Tuesday went ahead with the festival’s film awards.

NEW YORK -- South by Southwest, the sprawling Austin, Texas, conference and festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. But its organizers, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, on Tuesday went ahead with the festival's film awards.

Though this year’s SXSW was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the film festival held annually in Austin, Texas announced 2020 award winners.

If you need to mentally transport yourself during your self-imposed quarantine, you might want to keep this new live set from Liv.e on loop. The Texas artist, who now resides in Los Angeles, took the time amid the madness in the world to record a live set at home that includes a cover of Steve Kuhn's "Thoughts of a Gentleman," two songs off of her upcoming project ("She Stay Conflicted, I Hope He Understands" and "LazyEaterBetsOnHerLikeness"), and a new song with Maxo.

When Ethan Hawke was promoting “Blaze,” his biopic about troubled singer-songwriter Blaze Foley, he went around Texas talking up the low-budget indie to country music fans. It was a grassroots effort, one that saw staffers at IFC, the studio behind the 2018 film, crisscross the state while ferrying the cast and crew in rental cars from one theater to another. 

Dim echoes of David Lynch and early Roman Polanski abound throughout “The Carnivores,” a fitfully fascinating mix of teasing narrative opacity and stylized psycho-thriller atmospherics.

Erykah Badu is making social distancing a fashion statement.

Erykah Badu is keeping herself protected in style for safety!

Will he or won’t he? Jason Lewis revealed whether or not he will invite any of his Sex and the City costars to his upcoming wedding to fiancée Liz Godwin.

Now celebrating its 20th year — as well as the 35th anniversary of its parent organization, the Austin Film Society — the Texas Film Awards will honor such diverse talents as actors Kaitlyn Dever and Shelley Duvall and neo-soul auteur Erykah Badu at its annual ceremony on March 12. Duvall’s film debut, the Houston-shot “Brewster McCloud,” will also be recognized with the org’s Star of Texas Award.

Showing his support! Mike Johnson thinks Peter Weber “did the right thing” as his season of The Bachelor came to an end.

Last summer, even before the public had gotten a chance to see it, humans-hunting-humans thriller “The Hunt” became a target for pundits on both sides of the gun control debate, when a pair of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, prompted critics to consider the media’s role in glorifying violence. In response, Universal ripped director Craig Zobel’s movie from its original Sept.

"We had to find a way to make sure the show would go on in order to support the emerging artist community"

In today’s film news roundup, a pair of long-running film festivals in San Francisco and Cleveland are moving ahead and Warner Bros.’ Fred Hampton biopic gets additional backing and Dule Hill gets cast.