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SXSWCinemaVisionary Voices Are Back for Year Two In every era, a new class of iconic tastemaskers drive the conversations around the largest cultural shifts unfolding right in front of them.

10.27

SXSWCinemaYour Picks are In! 340+ PanelPicker Sessions Announced for SXSW 2027 After 94,484 community votes on 3,320 submitted proposals, we’re happy to announce 340+ community-selected sessions for SXSW 2027.

10.27

SXSWCinemaThe First Keynote and Featured Sessions for SXSW 2027 Are Here The countdown to SXSW 2027 officially begins with our first round of Keynote and Featured Session announcements, and we couldn’t be more excited to share them!

09.15

SXSWCinema2027 SXSW Predictions, According to Our Programmers With SXSW 2027 badges on sale, we begin our annual sprint to pull together thousands of sessions, networking events, music showcases, film screenings, and activations for March.

09.11

SXSWCinemaSXSW 2027 Illustrator María Jesús Contreras Is Keeping Austin Weird Fear. Humor. In-your-face color. These are just a few of the defining characteristics of Chilean artist María Jesús Contreras’s work.

08.25

SXSWCinemaEverything You Need to Know About SXSW 2027 Right Now Every year, our SXSW programming teams have fun predicting themes that might potentially shape the story of the upcoming SXSW event.

08.18

SXSWCinemaPanelPicker Community Voting Is Now Open: Vote on Your Favorite Sessions Help select SXSW 2027 programming! PanelPicker® community voting is open August 5-23, 2026. Cast your vote for your favorite session ideas you want to see in March.

08.14

SXSWCinemaSouth By Southwest 2027 Dates Are Here SXSW Conferences & Festivals | March 15 – 21, 2027 The event for creativity, discovery, and impact in the industries shaping the year ahead is back for another seven days in downtown Austin!

07.28

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo