You asked, we listened! This year the SXSW Film Festival is introducing a complimentary shuttle bus service for Film, Gold & Platinum registrants. This shuttle will provide transportation to outlying film venues from Friday, March 13-Tuesday, March 17 until 2 a.m. each day. If you're interested in having your brand seen by thousands, SXSW registrants and non-festival attendees, with this high-profile sponsorship or other sponsorship opportunities, please contact Hiliary Kerby. Don't miss the bus!

15 Docs Continue in 2009 Oscar Race
SXSW Premieres In a Dream, They Killed Sister Dorothy, and At the Death House Door make the cut.

Silver Screen
For one week only, Pitchfork is hosting Silver Jew, Michael Tully's beautiful SXSW 07 doc about the eponymous band. Watch it!

The Big Score
Thoughts on soundtracking, from three major musicians.

Ann Richards: The Movie
Don't get too excited; a purely speculative list of political biopics waiting to happen.

Many of you have already received your November issue of SXSWorld, but there are still some out there that don't know about our magazine. Our publication team produces 5 issues a year, covering topics in the film, interactive and music industries. The issues always include a piece on our company's Green efforts and of course, important and exciting updates regarding the SXSW conferences. The magazine is distributed worldwide with a readership of over 15,000 SXSW registrants. Our review issue included success stories from our 2008 SXSW participants, a musical spotlight on the great city of Memphis, the evolution of film distribution, and a report on Tony Heish of the ultra successful Zappos.com.

If you have already registered for the conference, you should be signed up to receive the magazine. If not, hurry and register so that you can be sure to receive the February Preview issue! You can also view previous copies of SXSWorld online. Curious about how to get your ads in the magazine? There is still time to take advantage of a special offer: Until Jan. 2, 2009 buy advertising in the February, one March, and May issue and receive the second March issue for $500! Go here for more information, or simply send an email to sales@sxsw.com.

You asked, we listened! This year the SXSW Film Festival is introducing a complimentary shuttle bus service for Film, Gold & Platinum registrants. This shuttle will provide transportation to outlying film venues from Friday, March 13-Tuesday, March 17 until 2 a.m. each day. If you're interested in having your brand seen by thousands, SXSW registrants and non-festival attendees, with this high-profile sponsorship or other sponsorship opportunities, please contact Hiliary Kerby. Don't miss the bus!

Many of you have already received your November issue of SXSWorld, but there are still some out there that don't know about our magazine. Our publication team produces 5 issues a year, covering topics in the film, interactive and music industries. The issues always include a piece on our company's Green efforts and of course, important and exciting updates regarding the SXSW conferences. The magazine is distributed worldwide with a readership of over 15,000 SXSW registrants. Our review issue included success stories from our 2008 SXSW participants, a musical spotlight on the great city of Memphis, the evolution of film distribution, and a report on Tony Heish of the ultra successful Zappos.com.

If you have already registered for the conference, you should be signed up to receive the magazine. If not, hurry and register so that you can be sure to receive the February Preview issue! You can also view previous copies of SXSWorld online. Curious about how to get your ads in the magazine? There is still time to take advantage of a special offer: Until Jan. 2, 2009 buy advertising in the February, one March, and May issue and receive the second March issue for $500! Go here for more information, or simply send an email to sales@sxsw.com.

On January 24th, 2009, Kings of Leon will headline the Dare 2 Dream benefit event at the House of Blues Chicago to raise funding and major awareness for pediatric cancer research and treatment. Platform One Entertainment and Sonicbids is giving one artist an incredible opportunity to open for Kings of Leon and receive $1,000 for travel and hotel accommodations! Visit www.platform-1.com and www.sonicbids.com/kingsofleon to learn more. Deadline is December 5th, 2008

Is your website wicked-awesome? Then make sure to enter it into the 12th Annual SXSW Web Awards, the competition that uncovers the best new online destinations.

The final deadline for entries is midnight (CST) on Friday, December 19 -- exactly one month away!

Hurry and submit your website in one (or several) of our 18 different categories, including Activism, Blog, Film / TV, Mobile, Music, and Technical Achievement. Winners will be announced at the SXSW Web Awards Ceremony presented by Adobe on Sunday evening, March 15.

Are you registered to attend the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival? Well why not put a button on your website or your blog to tell the world that you will be there? Click here to download the artwork for your site. And, if you haven't registered for SXSW yet, then what are you waiting for? Yes, the price went up on November 15. But cost to attend the event is still only $425. Or, get an even better deal by purchasing a Gold Badge, which gets you into all the fun of SXSW Interactive as well as the panels and screenings at SXSW Film. Cost for a Gold is only $625 through January 16. Visit the registration page for all the details.

Hats off to Ken Weinstein, President of Big Hassle Media in New York, the lucky winner of five free nights of lodging during SXSW.

Ken is no stranger to our town—he's been a regular at SXSW Music since 1993. Congrats, Ken!