SXSW Sydney Outdoor Cinema
Catch a selection of films that first premiered at SXSW Austin under the stars, including 'Ghost in the Shell' and 'What We Do in the Shadows'.
Overview
Fancy the SXSW Sydney experience without stretching your budget? As part of the event's inaugural trip Down Under, all things SXSW are taking over Tumbalong Park — and for free. That includes seeing movies under the stars without paying a cent, with the SXSW Sydney Screen Festival setting up an outdoor cinema for four nights.
Alongside indoor sessions at Darling Harbour Theatre and Palace Cinemas Central, these outside screenings are popping up at the SXSW Sydney 2023 hub in Tumbalong Park. On the program: a small survey the OG fest's best and brightest. Since SXSW added its film component in 1994, playing at the Austin fest has been a filmmaker's dream — so the Sydney event has picked four big highlights to share with the Harbour City.
The SXSW Sydney Outdoor Cinema will get its projector whirring for the first time at 8pm on Monday, October 16 with classic anime masterpiece Ghost in the Shell, then follow it up at 8pm on Tuesday, October 17 with records and romance courtesy of the OG High Fidelity.
Come 8pm on Thursday, October 19, Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused will get a whirl. And to wrap it all up at 8pm on Saturday, October 21? Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's What We Do in the Shadows — the movie, not the also-ace TV show.
