SxSW 2023

 To belatedly celebrate Mike's 70th birthday (way back in 2022), we spent the past week (11-17 March 2023) in Austin, Texas at SxSW's film festival. Over six days, we viewed 23 narrative shorts, 19 documentary shorts, 8 full-length narratives, and 11 full-length documentaries. We avoided those big films already slated for release, opting instead for the smaller indies we might not have another chance to see. We saw lots of great film! In between, we walked from venue to venue, stood in lots of lines, plotted the next day's film options, met lots of interesting fellow film lovers, and asked our share of questions in the Q&As. Most importantly, we learned that the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on Lamar has the world's best popcorn.