South by Southwest has announced the second half of its line-up for the March 10-19 event. This includes Visions, the Global section presented by MUBI, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections.
New on the sked is Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Amazon Studios series Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef are respectively the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.
They join the previously announced opening night world premiere of Paramount’s Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. This year’s Closing Night Film will be announced closer to the event.
In addition there is another movie to be announced for the fest’s Monday, March 13. Given the Oscars on Sunday, March 12 (note the festival sets their dates five years in advance), I understand that evening’s lineup will ease a bit with amped up feature premiere wattage placed on Monday night.
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