Filmmaker magazine has released its annual "25 New Faces of Independent Film." And we were very excited to see several SXSW alumni make the list once again. Cheers to all 25 in the class of 2007, you're in great company. The SXSW alumni includes: Ronnie Bronstein (Frownland), Moon Molson (Pop Foul), Jennifer Venditti (Billy The Kid), Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound), Vineet Dewan (Clear Cut, Simple), Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky (God Provides), and Alex Holdridge (Sexless, SXSW 2003). Big congrats all around!

We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists in the five SXSWclick categories. The finalists have been posted here for your viewing pleasures.
Don't forget to vote for your favorite finalist to win the Popularity Contest Award.
In addition to the Popularity Contest Award, jury winners in each of the five categories, including the Grand Jury Prize winner, will be announced August 1st. You can vote once daily for your favorite finalist until midnight on Friday, July 27th. Happy Viewing!

It's been a busy week in the press for some of our SXSW 2007 filmmakers. Here's a brief recap:

- At the Los Angeles Times, Gina Piccalo had her way with two different SXSW 2007 docmakers, in two separate articles. She chatted with Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk, about their Michael Moore documentary, Manufacturing Dissent, on the eve of what is sure to be a huge nationwide expansion of Moore's Sicko. Plus, timed with this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, Piccalo profiled the SXSW-winning documentary, Billy the Kid.

- Speaking of Billy the Kid and the L.A. Film Festival, indieWIRE shares a sweet photo of Billy himself, meeting fellow SXSW 2007 doc subject, Ron Holiday of Cat Dancers.

- SXSW 2007 Opening Night Film, The Lookout, has announced its DVD release. Cinema Blend shares the details, including cover art, and more thoughts on a film their reporter calls "already one of my favorite movies of this year."

- For The Boston Globe, Don Aucoin takes a look at the story behind Bill Haney's SXSW prize-winning (Emerging Visions Audience Award) documentary, The Price of Sugar. (free site reg required)

- Variety's Dennis Harvey reviews K. Ryan Jones' sobering documentary feature, Fall From Grace, which also premiered in our "Emerging Visions" section this year.

- DIY Filmmaker Sujewa interviewed SXSW's Matt Dentler for his blog the other day.

Sponsored by Cellfish, SXSWclick is the year-round initiative created to showcase short-form storytelling via mobile devices and the web. Final submission deadline for version 2007 of this competition is Friday, June 15. If you want a chance to get your cool online video seen by the SXSW audience, then don't delay and enter today! Also, the winner of this year's Grand Jury Prize receives a MacPro Workstation as well as an Apple Cinema display, all courtesy of iThentic.

We're refining and building our SXSWclick jury for 2007, and this is reflected on the official site. Among the jury who will be charged with watching the finalists this year, are Namesake star Kal Penn, Mr. Show co-creator Bob Odenkirk, Scratch director Doug Pray, bestselling author, pro blogger and vlogger Violet Blue, doc blogger Agnes Varnum, Kurt Cobain About a Son director AJ Schnack, and more. So, if you haven't yet, submit to SXSWclick today!

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