When your own mother tells you you’re behind on your blog you KNOW you’d better get to it! This was the first year I didn’t stay for the music at SXSW but I had a great and busy time at both the Film and Interactive Festivals. It’s tricky to try to do both because there isn’t really enough time to do either one justice but the Interactive panels are fascinating and cover all sorts of topics that filmmakers need to…

The March March parade up Broadway makes everyone smile. I was talking to someone about it afterwards and she said how nice it was to see grown-ups jumping up and down and grinning inanely and what an incredible sense of community an anarchic parade like this creates. Amen! Here’s the evidence. This fine lady was giving out buttons that said I AM LOVED in lots of different languages Esther Robinson (a Swami here this year), with Sky Sitney (Silverdocs) Stephanie…

I’m not in Toronto but if I was I would go see Sounds Like Teen Spirit tonight. My friend Jamie Jay Johnson made it and he is just as great as his name suggests (he once made a brilliant film about going on holiday in his bedroom)! I haven’t seen Sounds Like Teen Spirit yet but it’s about Junior Eurovision, a spin-off of the Eurovision Song Contest which was a hilariously camp yearly treat for me back in the UK…