South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By ) is an annual conglomerate of films, interactive media, and music festivals and conference that took place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It started in 1987, and continues to grow in scope and size every year. In 2017, the conference lasts 10 days with an interactive SXSW that lasts five days, music for seven days and movies runs simultaneously for nine days. Components and games for the festival are very fast growing.
SXSW is run by the SXSW, LLC company that hosts conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to South's three major festivals by Southwest, the company runs other conferences: SXSW EDU, a conference on educational innovation, held in Austin, and (begun in 2017) My convention, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz. The former conference run by the SXSW organization is SXSW Eco, an environmental conference held in Austin from 2011-2016; and one in Las Vegas: SXSW V2V, a conference that focuses on innovative startups that run from 2013 to 2015.
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Music
SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, with over 2,000 shows in 2014. SXSW Music offers music provided by artists and video samples of featured artists at every festival through their official YouTube channel.
Music events have grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to more than 28,000 registrants. SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, last bringing more than 51,000 registrants to Austin every March.
The band must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event. All players are offered cash payments or bracelets that allow access to all music events.
Movies
SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference and session panels, and welcomes filmmakers from all levels. Programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions, and more, with filmmakers and expert industry leaders.
In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers. Notable speakers include Jon Favreau, Mark Duplass, Ava DuVernay, Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Cage, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Tilda Swinton, Amy Schumer, Sally Field, Joss Whedon, Christine Vachon, RZA, Matthew McConaughey, Danny Boyle, Seth MacFarlane, Catherine Hardwicke , Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green, Harmony Korine, Henry Rollins, Sarah Green, and Robert Rodriguez. Although film festivals often highlight independently produced films and appear to lead talents with unique visions, the festival has long served studios as a starting point for their comedy, using enthusiastic fans as a barometer of how they can play in a wide release.
The SXSW Film Festival lasts nine days, along with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates the raw innovations and talents that appear behind and in front of the camera. The festival program categories include: Special Events, Headliners, Narrative Highlights, Documentary Highlights, Narrative Competitions, Documentary Competitions, Vision, Midnight, 24 Beats Per Second, SXGlobal, Episodic, Festival Favorites, and Short Film Program. The SXSW Film Awards, which took place on the last day of the Film Conference, the film of honor was chosen by Juri Feature and Short Film.
In 2015, the SXSW Film Festival program 150 movies and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 works. The world's premier debuts include Furious 7 , Neighbors , Chef , 21 Jump Street , Cabins at the Woods , Bridesmaids and Insidious , and the TV series Girls , Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful .
Interactive
SXSW Interactive focuses on emerging technologies, a focus that has made reputation festivals a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. The festival includes trade shows, speakers, parties, and startup accelerators. According to Louis Black franchise organizer, SXSW Interactive "may have been the largest in the world" since 2007.
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History
Inauguration - 1980s
In July 1986, organizer of the New York City music festival, New Music Seminar, contacted Roland Swenson, a staff member of the Austin Chronicle's weekly biopic about organizing the festival's extension to Austin after announcing that they would hold " New Music Seminar Southwest ". The plan did not materialize, so Swenson decided to join a local music festival, with the help of two others in the Chronicle: editor and co-founder Louis Black, and publisher Nick Barbaro. Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also taken to the ship. Black came up with the name, as a play on Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest. The event was first held in March 1987. The organizers regarded it as a regional event and expected about 150 attendees, but more than 700 came, and according to Black "it was national almost immediately."
Meyers left Austin and festivals in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro and Swenson remained the main organizers of the festival in 2010.
1990s
Singer and songwriter Michelle Shocked is the main speaker in South 1992 by Southwest. He caused controversy by delivering a speech, written by her husband Bart Bull, criticizing white musicians for stealing music from African American artists; and then at the same conference when he tried to kick the band Two Nice Girls from a charity concert, a movement some people called anti-gay, because of the picturesque Two Nice Girls lesbian.
In 1993, SXSW moved to the Austin Convention Center, where it was still being held.
In 1994, SXSW added components to movies and other media, named "SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference". Johnny Cash is the keynote speaker.
That year, three brothers from the Hanson band were taken to SXSW by their father for an impromptu audition for music executives, in the hope of gaining industry attention. Among the people who heard them were A & amp; R executives Christopher Sabec, who became their manager, and will soon afterwards make them sign a contract with Mercury Records.
In 1995, SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference was split into two separate events, "SXSW Film" and "SXSW Multimedia".
In 1999, SXSW Multimedia was renamed "SXSW Interactive".
2000s
Singer-songwriter John Mayer at the SXSW Music Festival 2000 caused him to immediately sign a contract with Aware Records, his first record label.
A performance by The Polyphonic Spree band at the 2002 SXSW Music festival helped bring them to national attention before they signed a contract with a major label.
At the 2002 SXSW Film Festival, the film Manito won the jury award for the narrative feature, while the documentary Spellbound won the jury award for the documentary feature.
British singer James Blunt was discovered by producer Linda Perry while playing a small show at the 2004 SXSW Music Festival, and signed for Perry Custard Records shortly thereafter, where she will continue to release the next three albums.
The 2005 SXSW film is considered by some to be the origin of the mumblecore movie genre. A number of films are now classified as mumblecore, including The Puffy Chair , Kissing on the Mouth , Four-eyed Monster and >, filtered, and Eric Masunaga, a musician and sound editor at Mutual Appreciation, is credited with coining the term "mumblecore" in a bar at the festival.
The Hooligan film won both the Film Feature Jury Award and the Film Feature Audience Award for the narrative feature, while The Puffy Chair won the Feature Film Audience Award in the "Emerging Visions" category. Cowboy del Amor's documentary film won the SXSW Competition Award and Audience Award.
The secret concert at SXSW Music 2006 by the band The Flaming Lips was named one of the Top 10 "Music-Top Festivals" of all time by Time magazine in 2010.
The SXSW Interactive 2006 features a keynote panel from Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, and Craigslist's founder, Craig Newmark.
That year, "Screenburn on SXSW", a component for video games, was added to SXSW Interactive.
The 2007 music festival runs from 14 to 18 March, and over 1,400 acts are performed.
Two of the inaugural first year films were Elvis and Anabelle and Skills Like This .
The Twitter social media platform mainly gained much initial traction and buzz in SXSW Interactive 2007, although it was not launched in SXSW 2007 as it is sometimes reported.
SXSW Interactive 2008 received media attention because Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's main interview by technology journalist Sarah Lacy is considered by some observers to be a "train accident" because of the audience's perception that Lacy posed unflattering questions, as well as mocking or short answers in response to Zuckerberg.
In 2008, comedy elements were added to SXSW; it was held for one night. (In 2012, comedy shows take place on all night festivals.)
Festival 2009 held 13-22 March. The SXSW Interactive section specifically attracts greater attendance; The tense entry of network providers such as AT & T (mainly due to heavy iPhone usage). Also new is the establishment of an international organization for those who are not present, dubbed NotAtSXSW. Coordinate through Twitter and other online tools, notatsxsw events are held in London, New York, Wisconsin, Portland, Oregon and Miami.
SXSW Interactive 2009 saw the launch of the Foursquare app, called "mobile breakout app" from events by Mashable blog.
The 2009 SXSW movie plays 250 films, including 54 world premiere. The show is best known for the premiere of the US movie The Hurt Locker , which later won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2010. The award-winning jury featured is, for documentary features. , 45365 , and for the narrative feature, Made in China .
2010
The 2010 music festival, which runs from 12 to 21 March, is dedicated to Alex Chilton, who died shortly before he performed with Big Star. Concert honors were made in his honor on March 20, 2010.
At the 2010 festival, nearly 2,000 bands were officially scheduled to perform, and festival representatives estimated that over 13,000 industry representatives were present. Although traditionally, the Austin Music Awards started the festival, the organizers of that year declared it a cover. Local musician Bob Schneider earned 6 awards, including Song of the Year, Singer of the Year, and Band of the Year (with Lonelyland.) The 2010 festival is also famous for performances by members of the surviving Moby Grape band.
At the 2010 Film festival, Magnolia Pictures purchased the film rights for the science fiction movie Monsters on a filtered night, in what was the first "overnight acquisition" at SXSW. Journalist Meredith Melnick of Time magazine calls this buy a turning point for SXSW, leading to greater interest among film studio executives in attending festivals live. That year also saw Tiny Furniture's premiere indie favorite, which won the award for Best Narrative Feature.
The 2010 Interactive Festival has about 12-13,000 paying participants, representing a 40% jump over the previous year. This is the first year in which the interactive festival attendance goes beyond the music festival. Her main presentation was an interview with her Twitter CEO Evan Williams by Umair Haque, an interview that many amongst the audience felt disappointingly shallow. Also during the interactive festival, the first time (and so far only) "Hive Award For Heroes Without An Element from the Internet" was held.
2011
The 2011 SXSW Festival runs from March 11 to 20.
The main presenter for SXSW Interactive is Seth Priebatsch, founder and CEO of SCVNGR mobile-gaming platform. The Interactive Festival 2011 is by far the largest ever, with an estimated 20,000 participants.
Also present at SXSW is boxing legend Mike Tyson, promoting his new iPhone game with RockLive at Screenburn Arcade.
At least two movies playing at the SXSW Film festival earned a distribution deal: the Undefeated (then award-winning Academy Award for Best Documentary) documentary and the Divide thriller The Divide. As a result, film critic Christopher Kelly wrote that in 2011, the Film SXSW changed from a "well-considered but fundamentally regional event" to "joining major league film festivals around the world." The festival is also famous for the premiere of the film Bridesmaids.
The screening of the Foo Fighters documentary on March 15 Back and Forth was followed by a surprise live show by the band itself, with a setlist that included the upcoming Wasting Light upcoming album.
2012
SXSW 2012 runs from March 9th to 18th.
Sophisticated technology from SXSW Interactive 2012 is generally declared a "social discovery" mobile app, which lets users search for other users nearby. Social discovery apps that have presence in SXSW include Highlight, Glancee, Sonar, and Kismet.
SXSW Movies watched the premiere of two major Hollywood movies: The Cabin in the Woods and 21 Jump Street . Two films get distribution deals: Girls Against Boys and The Tall Man . Another film, Gimme the Loot , which won the SXSW Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize, got a distribution deal a week after the festival. Bay of All Saints received an Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary.
2012 is also the first year of expanded music portion until Tuesday. Music festivals include rappers such as Talib Kweli and Lil 'Wayne, along with surprise appearances by Big Sean and Kanye West; emerging indie bands including MENEW and The Shins. Bruce Springsteen is the keynote speaker for music festivals.
2013
SXSW 2013 runs from 8 to 17 March.
Films with big budget The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and Evil Dead aired on SXSW 2013 Movies, and Spring Breakers got the U.S. premiere The Movie Short Term 12 won the grand jury award for Best Narrative Feature. Cheap Thrills and Haunter movies receive distribution offers, and Drinking Buddies get distribution deals a few days later.
SXSW Interactive 2013 saw another big jump in enrollment, now with 30,621 paying participants. This amount is more than three times the amount that was present in 2008 (9,000), just five years earlier. The main speaker for SXSW Interactive 2013 was given by SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk. The "Screenburn" and "Arcade" components are renamed to "SXSW Gaming" and "SXSW Gaming Expo", respectively. The Interactive Conference is renowned for its ever-increasing presence, featuring massive participation by Samsung, 3M, Target, American Airlines, Adobe Systems and AT & T, among others. According to CNN, CBS and CNET refer to Grumpy Cat as SXSW Interactive's "biggest star" over Musk, Al Gore, and Neil Gaiman undeniable.
2014
SXSW 2014 runs from 7 to 16 March.
SXSW Movie has the premiere of big-budget movies Neighbors , Veronica Mars and Chef , and Cesar Chavez premiered in North America. Clips for big budget movies Godzilla are also filtered. Movies Space Station 76 and Ada got a distribution offer at the festival while Fort Tilden (which won the Narrative Feature Grand Prize Award) and < i> Open Windows gets a distribution offer shortly thereafter.
The new section, "Episodic" (on television show) was introduced to SXSW Film. Television series previewed at the festival include Silicon Valley and From Dusk to Dawn: The Series . Talkshow Jimmy Kimmel Live! recorded for a week at the festival; it joins the talk show Watch What Happens: Live event, which began being recorded on SXSW in 2013.
SXSW Interactive features a keynote address by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, via streaming video, about privacy rights. The festival also features lectures from another famous leaker, Julian Assange, also speaking from a distance. In addition to privacy concerns, another major focus of the Interactive festival is wearable technology, including devices for augmented reality, activity tracking, identity authentication, mobile phone charging and more. Computerworld magazine calls Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset, a "sleeping punch" festival, though it's not featured in Interactive but in the Movies section, as part of the Game of Thrones exhibit. The SXSW Gaming section introduces the SXSW Gaming Award to recognize achievements in video and other types of games, which have continued through the SXSW festival in the future.
The presenter and headline acting this year for Stubb is Lady Gaga. To promote her upcoming album, Food , Kelis cooks and serves barbecue-style meals from a food truck to festival participants.
On March 13, 2014, a drunk driver, Rashad Charjuan Owens, drove his car into a crowd of festival visitors while trying to avoid a traffic stop. Two people were killed instantly, two others were killed later because of their injuries and 21 others were injured but survived. Owens was found guilty of massive murder charges after the November 2015 trial in which eyewitnesses testified to "chaotic and horrific scenes" that night, as hundreds of people ran and screamed as the car dashed through the crowd. Owens was given an automatic life imprisonment term without the possibility of parole.
On March 15, 2014, rapper Tyler, the Creator was arrested on charges of lawlessness "inciting to riot" after shouting out to fans to push their way past security guards at sold-out events the previous day. In February 2016, the alleged riot was brought against Tyler, the Creator in accordance with a confession agreement with the prosecutor (where the rapper pleaded guilty to a lesser offense of disorderly conduct and paid a $ 100 fine, with a case to be dismissed if he stay out of trouble for three months).
2015
SXSW 2015 runs from March 13th to 22nd.
SXSW Films screen 145 widescreen films, an all-time highest record for the festival. Movies with big budget Furious 7 (which is a last-minute addition to the lineup), Get Hard , Spy , a rough snippet of Trainwreck , Moonwalkers and The Final Girls hold their world premiere, as well as documentary Danny Says , Steve Jobs : The Man in the Machine and Brand: A Second Coming . Ex Machina has premiere in North America. 6 Years , Manson Family Vacation and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine all got distribution deals at the festival.
The 2015 Festival hosts the inauguration ceremony of Michelle K. Lee as the new head of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Trade Minister Penny Pritzker gave an oath of office to Lee at the festival on Friday, March 13.
Various sources named Meerkat, an iOS app launched two weeks earlier that allows users to stream videos via Twitter, SXSW Interactive breakthrough technology. Another product that gets a significant buzz is the prototype of a working AeroMobil aircraft, whose maker, AeroMobil s.r.o., says it will be ready to operate by 2017.
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SXSW 2016 starts on March 11 and ends on March 20th.
On March 11, President Barack Obama gave a speech at SXSW Interactive where he asked the technology industry to help solve many American problems, such as updating outdated networks, helping to balance security and privacy, and FBI-Apple encryption disputes.
Movies aired on SXSW Movies include Everyone Wants Some !! , Keanu , Sausage Party , Big Vacation Pee-wee > and Do not Think Twice .
On the night of March 20, shots were heard on 6th Street causing mass hysteria and panic. No injuries were reported and a man from Memphis was arrested using firearms and disrupted the calm.
2017
Movies featured on SXSW Movies include Song to Song , Baby Driver , Atomic Blonde , Gemini , The Ballad of Lefty Brown . Spettacolo and Disaster Artist . Previewed television shows include The Children, Dear White People and American Gods. To promote the original miniseries Hulu The Handmaid's Tale , an adaptation of the classic dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, dozens of actresses secretly walked the streets of downtown Austin dressed in red bridesmaid dresses. To promote the third season of the original AMC series Better Call Saul (prequel of Breaking Bad ), the pop-up restaurant "Los Pollos Hermanos", representing the fast food fiction chain featured in both series, appeared in downtown Austin.
Guest speakers included former mayor of Newark, NJ and current Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), political activist and commentator Van Jones and former Vice President Joe Biden, who talks about his cancer research initiative. Nile Rodgers gave a keynote address to the music section of the festival, while filmmakers Gareth Edwards and Lee Daniels gave the main presentation for the film part.
Big companies and brands are on display at SXSW (many with independent brand activation pavilions) including IBM, Intel, Panasonic, Nintendo, GE, Giorgio Armani, Mazda and National Geographic.
Major players during the musical component of the festival include Garth Brooks, Lana Del Rey, Lil Yachty, The Roots, The Avett Brothers, Willie Nelson, Solange Knowles, Rae Sremmurd, Migos, and The Chainsmokers among others.
On the way to SXSW 2017, the Soviet Soviet-era Soviet post-punk band, traveling on the Visa Release Program, was denied entry into the United States, held overnight and deported after immigration officials at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport claimed they planned to perform paid performance, work. The band presented a letter from their American record label stating that their two performances at KEXP (which had brought the band to Seattle) and at SXSW were only for promotional purposes, but this failed to convince officials at the airport. There is also a "Counter" show on March 17th, featuring artists and musicians (residents of the US and Canada) who are indigenous, or have family ties with, countries affected by the US travel ban 2017 on residents from -part of the Islamic World.
Uber and Lyft left Austin in May 2016 as a result of city regulations requiring a fingerprint background check based for drivers of transport network companies. However, other services such as (local) RideAustin, Tighten and Tariff, are available, albeit in high demand. Uber and Lyft resume service in Austin in May 2017.
2018
SXSW 2018 runs from March 9 to 18. Some participants noted fewer "big name" music and corporate pavilions at the festival, and fewer viewers, compared to previous years.
Finalists of the PPS Accelerator Pitch 2018 event include Cambridge Cancer Genomics and Bluefield Technologies. The two winners of the event are Austin based: GrubTubs (in the Hyper-Connected Community category) and ICON 3D (in the Social and Cultural category).
Guest speakers include US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont); businessman Elon Musk; actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates; journalist Christiane Amanpour; rap artist/producer David Banner, and film producer/director Barry Jenkins, Darren Aronofsky and Steven Spielberg. Bill Murray's actor and comedian appeared in some unofficial functions during SXSW.
Major players during SXSW Music include Tinashe, Rae Sremmurd, Rita Coolidge, Salt-N-Pepa and Khalid. There is an increasing emphasis on local-based actors, international and relatively unknown acts.
New games announced during the 2018 SXSW Gaming Expo include Sonic Mania Plus . At the SXSW Gaming Awards (held March 17), the award for Game of the Year falls to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Movies aired in the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival include A Quiet Place, Blocker and Ready Player One . Movies that have an U.S. premiere they include Final Portrait and Who We Are Now . Preview TV series include Barry , Krypton , The Last O.G. and Capes & amp; Daggers To promote the second season of the Westworld HBO series, a recreation of the western fictional West "city of Sweetwater is built on two acres of open land outside Austin. Fans take shuttles to the site, which wear the Old West style, with over 60 actors playing part of the "host" android.
SXSW 2018 coincides with a series of bombings in Austin, which began on March 2 and ended on March 21, when the alleged offender, Mark Anthony Conditt, blew himself up after being found by police. Two of the bombings occurred during SXSW. On March 17, Live Nation Music, the company's organizing event for SXSW, received bomb threats via email. The police searched the area mentioned in the email and found no problems, but the performances planned by The Roots and Ludacris, inter alia, were canceled. Police arrested 26-year-old Trevor Weldon Ingram; Ingram is accused of making the threat of terrorism, third level crimes, with respect to email.
Economic impact
SXSW is the highest revenue-generating event (excluding athletic events and others associated with the University of Texas) for the Austin economy, with an estimated economic impact of $ 190.3 million in 2012 rising to $ 218 million in 2013, $ 315 million on in 2014, $ 317 million in 2015, and $ 325 million in 2016. (In comparison, the Super Bowl LI brings a $ 347 million economic impact to the Houston economy and the 2016 Final Four brings an economic impact of $ 324 million to the Phoenix, Arizona economy. )
In addition, hotel room demand in the Austin area continues to outstrip supply, pushing the average room rate every night to an all-time high of $ 350 in 2016, a 60 percent increase over the average room rate seen during SXSW 2011 edition. SXSW registrants the average also lives in Austin longer in 2016, spends an average of 5.2 nights, up from 4.9 nights in 2015.
Criticism
The growth of the festival has brought concerns about violence, mass control, and security.
The drunken driving incident of 2014 prompted a discussion about whether the festival has grown too big and rough. The organizers of the festival - SXSW Holdings LLC and SXSW Holdings Inc. - were sued by families of four victims.
In May 2014, partly motivated by the 2014 crash, Austin Urban Transport Commission announced that they are trying to improve safety at the festival, with an initial focus on implementing transport measures to resolve issues related to the festival. The Austin Music Commission also meets to discuss the music venues and sound issues associated with the festival. The city chose to limit the number of special events to be approved for 114, a 32 percent decline from the number of events approved during the 2014 festival.
Another frequent criticism of the SXSW festival is that it has become too commercial. In 2013, NPR writer Andrea Swensson wrote that he had decided to stop attending the festival, writing, "I can not help but feel that he has strayed away from his original premise as a grassroots gathering ground for new and undiscovered talent. feels like a big-size advertising billboard 'Times Square'.
In October 2015, SXSW announced the cancellation of two video game panels ("#SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community" and "Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Game") scheduled for the 2016 festival due to the threat of violence committed to the festival hosting sessions. In response to the cancellation, Buzzfeed and Vox Media made a statement saying that they would be out of the festival if both panels were not restored. In response to the criticism, South by Southwest admitted that their decision to cancel the panel was a mistake. As a substitute for the panel, South by Southwest hosts the annual "online harassment meeting" on March 12, 2016. Despite fears that violent hecklers will disrupt the summit, it is described by Brian Fung as "a largely peaceful affair" , with limited protests for those who are angry about the pursuit of a purse carried out there.
In popular culture
Comedian and actor Fred Armisen began his comic career with short film Fred Armisen's Guide to Music and SXSW, released in 1998, in which he played various characters, asking silly questions about musicians and other participants at the SXSW Music Conference that year.
Similar festivals
The creators of South by Southwest created two similar festivals in 1995: North by Northwest (NXNW) in Portland, Oregon (founded by Willamette Week ), and North by Northeast (NXNE) in Toronto (founded by Now ). North by Northwest ended in 2001, and was replaced by MusicfestNW (MFNW), a show run entirely by Willamette Week . It joined TechfestNW, a technology conference, in 2012. From 2006 to 2010, SXSW organizers also ran West by Southwest (WXSW) in Tucson, Arizona, a music festival that took place directly before South by Southwest and mostly featured bands that also booked for SXSW.
Other active festivals inspired by SXSW include the following:
- Live at Heart - ÃÆ' â € "rebro, Sweden
- Midpoint Music Festival (MPMF) - Cincinnati, Ohio
- South by Due East - Houston, Texas
- The Goa Project - Goa, India
- The Great Escape Festival - Brighton, UK
- Tech Open Air (TOA) - Berlin
- XOXO - Portland, Oregon
- Yes and Yes Yes (YXYY) (formerly known as "Yes by Ya Ya") - Palm Springs, California
Festivals inspired by SXSW that no longer run include:
- 35 Denton (originally known as "North by 35" or "NX35", then "35 Conferette") - Denton, Texas (2009-2016)
- C2SV (originally known as "SVSX") - San Jose, California (2012-2016)
- Incubation (originally known as "ZXZW") - Tilburg, Netherlands (2005-2016)
- MoSo - Saskatoon, Canada (2011-2016)
- Then What ?! Music Fest (originally known as "South by So What?!") - Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (2006-2017)
- Sounded by South Bend (originally known as "South by South Bend") - South Bend, Indiana (2013-2015)
The festival, inspired by South by Southwest, is collectively dubbed the "four-letter festival". Metro Silicon Valley , who founded C2SV, wrote that such festivals have been an important source of income for the alternative weekly newspaper that has established it.
On October 3, 2016, a one-day festival, called "South by South Lawn" (SXSL), was held at the White House; it is a collaboration between SXSW, US President Barack Obama, and the American Film Institute.
References
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