Cameron Osmond

Director Karyn Kusama’s thriller “The Invitation” begins like an ordinary, dinner-party centered film: Couples get together over wine and food to hash out the past with polite conversation, letting bygones be bygones. 

Since its origin in 1994, South By Southwest Film Festival has acted as the launchpad for many important films. This year, Richard Linklater and Jeff Nichols are dropping their much-hyped projects, “Everybody Wants Some” and “Midnight Special,” respectively, at SXSW.  

While walking through a market in Gujarat, India, Juhie Vyas was approached by an emaciated young boy pleading for food and money. 

Students don’t think twice about asking professors for academic advice, but they rarely approach professors when they’re looking for book, movie or music recommendations.

Overcome with frustration, a student thumbed through her red ink-laced test, while government professor Shannon O’Brien explained the questions she missed were in the required textbook.

From her Parisian hostel window, UT alumna Selen Flores overheard a group discussing their missing friend Margot.

Listed among Wired magazine’s “most dangerous men in the world,” UT alumnus Cody Wilson is unlike others who decorate the list.

When “Beasts of No Nation” premiered Oct. 16, most people watched from their couches rather than movie theater seats. 

Instead of taking notes during her classes at the University of Washington, Austin-based artist Sophie Roach began her artistic career doodling in her notebook.