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To commemorate the 25th edition of the SXSW Film Festival<\/a><\/strong>, we continue our weekly alumni spotlight on careers launched, artists discovered, powerful performances, and more with filmmaker Ti West<\/strong>.<\/p>\n West’s feature directorial debut The Roost<\/em>, premiered at SXSW in 2005. He returned to SXSW with Trigger Man<\/em>, The Innkeepers<\/em>, and V\/H\/S<\/em>, all features in the horror-genre. West has also acted in SXSW alumni films like Silver Bullets<\/em>, Drinking Buddies<\/em>, and You\u2019re Next<\/em>. He was most recently at SXSW in 2016 with the world premiere of In a Valley of Violence<\/em>, starring Ethan Hawke<\/strong>. In addition to his feature film work, West has directed several episodes of television shows like Wayward Pines<\/em> and Outcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n We are pleased to share his #SXSWFilm25 story with you.<\/p>\n “SXSW changed my life by giving some kid who worked in a shopping mall a prestigious public platform to show his low budget horror movie. I am so grateful for the experience and to all the people I’ve met through the festival over the years. The world premiere of The Roost <\/em>in 2005 at the the original Alamo Drafthouse will forever remain one of the greatest nights of my life.”<\/p>\n Grab your Film Badge<\/a> today for primary access to all SXSW Film events including world premieres, roundtables, workshops, and parties. Register to attend<\/a> by Friday, January 12<\/strong> and save. Book your hotel through SXSW Housing & Travel<\/a> for the best available rates. Stay tuned for the 2018 SXSW Film Festival lineup which will be announced in January.<\/p>\n Follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and SXSW News<\/a> for the latest SXSW coverage, announcements, and updates.<\/p>\n See you in March!<\/p>\n In the Valley of Violence Photo by Hutton Supancic\/Getty Images for SXSW<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n The post 25 Years of SXSW Film Festival – Ti West<\/a> appeared first on SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: SxSW Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To commemorate the 25th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, we continue our weekly alumni spotlight on careers launched, artists discovered,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/11\/SELECT-3-3-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Eq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Join Us For SXSW 2018<\/h3>\n