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THIS WEEK IN NEWS: indieWIRE was in Austin to cover a successful SXSW. A host of upcoming film festivals and series were announced. And some wonderfully received films made their way into theaters.

In his film, "Rip! A Remix Manifesto" - available in its entirety at the bottom of this page courtesy of SnagFilms - filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, examining the work of Girl Talk, a "mash-up" artist whose career is based entirely on the illegally sampled work of other artists.

From left to right: Focus Features president Andrew Karpen , writer/director Noah Baumbach, and actors Greta Gerwig, Ben Stiller, and Rhys Ifans at the March 18th special screening of their new movie "Greenberg." "I’m always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen," Baumbach said in an interview published on indieWIRE earlier this week.

A breathless thriller from its very first frame, Will Canon's "Brotherhood" careens forward with spastic momentum. Following a group of deranged frat boys in a single night of hazing gone awry, Canon eschews patient storytelling in favor of wall-to-wall sequences loaded with distress.

The Cinema Guild has announced the acquisition of U.S. Home Video, Internet and Cable VOD rights to "Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl," the latest film - completed in his 100th year - from the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira.

Steven Soderbergh's documentary "And Everything is Going Fine" will launch the thirteenth season of the IFC Center's Stranger Than Fiction (STF) weekly documentary film series, on April 6th. Soderbegh will be in attendance for the kick-off of the series, which runs every Tuesday night through June 8.

MoMA's 7th annual Canadian Front Film Exhibition kicked off to a raucous start last night, with the New York premiere of the Quebecois sensation "Fathers and Guns." Directed and written by Emile Gaudreault, the Montreal based cop comedy became a box office juggernaut in Quebec last summer, outgrossing "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" (another crime caper), to become Canada's most successful French-language film.

As the main part of the film and interactive events at SXSW wound down Tuesday night following the film awards, the music event heated up, and IFC Crossroads House (a venue hosted by the network that contains a range of activities and freebies throughout the 10 day SXSW) with a show from what people were calling a hot band, Shadow Shadow Shade.

"Tiny Furniture" director Lena Dunham certainly ruled the night Tuesday, taking the SXSW Film Festival's Best Narrative film prize and winning resounding praise from Variety's Peter Debruge as he introduced the winner.

The crew from SXSW debut, "MacGruber" made the rounds in and around the festival Tuesday, first doing what attendees called "a fun press conference" with talk of pubic hair and sex with a fake ghost.