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About a year ago, a video of a twenty-something gal dancing on a New York ferry to music by Girl Talk started making the rounds.

Now the full-length film, Girl Walk // All Day will be shown at SXSW 2012 as a Special Events screening.

Beauty Is Embarrassing, appearing in the SXSW 2012 Documentary Spotlight category, follows the trajectory of cartoon artist Wayne White, one of the creators of the Pee Wee's Playhouse television show and a generally colorful character.

We’re probably not shocking you with the following revelation: horror fans love to be scared.

But in this day and age, when most everything’s been done, and we all have seen Fangoria magazine enough to know that the blood is corn syrup and the chainsaw had the chain removed, it’s hard to get scared anymore.

Thankfully, there are those out there finding new ways to do it, and director Evan Kelly is one of them.

A special presentation of Buster Keaton's silent classic The Cameraman will take place during SXSW, and the 1928 movie will be accompanied by a live performance of a score by Bee vs.

Moth.

How and why was journalist Carlos Berger killed?

His son German Berger-Hertz looks further into his father's life and death in 1970's Chile with his film My Life With Carlos.

Miranda July won over audiences with her 2005 debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know.

It has felt like an eternity waiting for her to return with a new film, but she's finally done it with The Future.

Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the recent Oscars ceremony, Incendies tells the tale of two siblings who are thrown for a loop when they receive strange instructions from their mother, Nawal, after her death.

The notary/family friend who is executor of their mother's will hands the twins two envelopes: one for their father (who they believed to be dead) and one for their brother (who they didn't know existed).

Suzanne Bier is no stranger to awards season.

Her 2006 film After The Wedding was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

This year, she had a pretty amazing one-two punch when In A Better World won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film a few weeks before it took home the same prize at the Oscars (After The Wedding had previously lost out to The Lives Of Others).

As SXSW approaches, and we start scanning the looooong list of films to find the ones that make our heart beat a bit faster, we can’t help but get a little excited about writer/director James Gunn’s dark take on the super hero genre, simply and appropriately called Super.

Next time your grandpa starts talking about the character-building hardships of growing up in the olden days, feel free to turn around and say, "Shut it, Gramps.

Ever gone through a breakup in the Facebook Age?