SWSW Day 2 Offers Plenty Of Engrossing, Fun Offerings

AUSTIN, TX — A wide-ranging discussion between CNN newsman Jake Tapper and former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders was the big highlight of the opening day of SXSW Friday. Yet there are still plenty of compelling offerings to be had on the second day of the festival.

Some late afternoon/highlights:

• HBCU Battle of the Brains Final 5 p.m to 7 p.m. | JW Marriott, Salon 5

The HBCU Battle of the Brains invites SXSW Platinum and Interactive badge holders to the Finals of the 2018 HBCU Battle of the Brains on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 5:00 PM CST at the JW Marriott Austin. Held in the Grand Ballroom 5 on the fourth floor, join students from 25 HBCUs around the country as we crown the 2018 HBCU Battle of the Brains Champion. Your voice will count as the crowd will count as one of the judges in this competition so you will get to help determine which schools get a share of the $50,000 in scholarship prize money! See you there!

• Style for All: Universal Designed Clothing 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | Four Seasons, Ballroom AB

Have you ever imagined not being able to put on a dress shirt within ten minutes? Mobility impairment and paralysis often impact a person’s ability to wear clothing. Initiated at MIT in 2014 and currently operating in conjunction with Parsons, Open Style Lab's work highlights the concerns people with disabilities have about the limited choices in clothing that inhibit their potential to take part in everyday life. From utilizing AR when creating accessible clothing to smart performance fabrics, hear stories of collaborations with people with disabilities.

• Shorts Program 3 5:15 p.m. to 6:44 p.m. | Alamo Lamar, Alamo Lamar E

Program Includes:

Tangles and Knots

Set in the height of summer in Sydney, Australia, ‘Tangles and Knots’ follows a unique, intimate relationship between a mother and teenage daughter. They act more like girlfriends together than parent and child. This relationship becomes threatened when the mother helps her daughter throw a house party to impress new, more popular friends. As their relationship unravels throughout the night, a much more sinister threat emerges that will jeopardize their bond forever.
Haven

The first beauty salon a young girl is introduced to is between her mother’s legs. It’s a place where innocence is treasured, bonds are strengthened and confidence is boosted. For Jada, as her mother, Janice is routinely doing her hair. Jada finds solace in-between her mother’s legs to confess earth shattering news.
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Carro

An undocumented Brazilian immigrant living in the Boston area decides to buy a car in an effort to better his life before returning home.
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Kimchi

As his family argues about his end-of-life care, an elderly Korean man reflects on his life with a stranger.
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Tooth and Nail

A dysfunctional family reunites after the son, Matt, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Matt and his sister Kate make a pact. He agrees to give her his sperm for future use with a partner if she agrees to come out to the family that night.
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Brian and Charles

“Brian and Charles” tells the story of an unlikely friendship forged in isolation. After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation, he builds a robot. Charles is that robot. While life is pretty rosy for a while, tensions begin to rise between pair. Partly due to the fact that Charles has the cognitive ability of a 4 year old child and completely due to the fact that he keeps eating Brians cabbages. Things soon come to a head and Brian is forced to make a decision he may soon come to regret.
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Are We Good Parents?

When Lauren and Bill's 14-year-old daughter says she's going to her first dance with her classmate Ryan, they welcome the news with excitement...and hesitation. Lauren and Bill always assumed their daughter was gay, in the same way that most parents assume their child is straight (until given notice). Suddenly, they worry they have not provided an open environment that allows their daughter to be herself. Lauren and Bill do some introspection on their own parenting and ask, "Are we good parents?"

• Ruben Blades Is Not My Name 7 p.m. to 8:25 p.m. | Alamo Ritz
• Comedy Central’s Corporate Retreat 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. | Esther's Follies
• Blood Fest 11:55 p.m. to 1:27 a.m. | Alamo Lamar

NETWORKING

• Palm Park - presented by Mercedes-Benz & smart 9:30am – 10:30am | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon G
• Teen Mental Health Meet Up 11:00am – 12:00pm | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon C
• G-Store SXSW Pop-Up 11:00am – 12:00pm | Hilton Austin Downtown
• From Veterans to the Workforce Meet Up 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Fairmont, Congressional C
• Interactive Mix at Six Party presented by Cogeco Peer 1 12:30pm – 1:30pm | JW Marriott, Salon AB
• SXSW Film Festival 25th Edition Party hosted by Ready Player One Experience with VIVE VR 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon H

SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE
ENCORE SESSIONS

• Telling Tales in Episodic TV 5:00pm – 6 p.m. | Austin Convention, Center Room 11AB
• Designing & Building for a Data Science Future 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.| JW Marriott, Salon 7

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