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NEW & NOTEWORTHY WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW & EXCITING THINGS TO COME! FIRE WALK WITH ME - TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN PREMIERES In March, SXSW attendees got an early look at the new SHOWTIME® limited event series Twin Peaks, which picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town were stunned when their homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, was shockingly murdered. Considered among the most influential television series of all time, the new version again stars Golden Globe® winner and Emmy® nom- inee Kyle MacLachlan as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper. Written by series creators Mark Frost and David Lynch and directed entirely by Lynch, Twin Peaks premiered on Sunday, May 21 and can only be seen on SHOWTIME®. BRAZIL'S BIG PRESENCE AT SXSW 2017 This year, Brazil sent the second largest foreign delegation to SXSW and the largest to SXSWedu. The Brazilian film Divine Divas won the Global SXSW Film Audience Award, and Brazilian tech company CI+T won the SXSW Interactive Innovation People's Choice Award for its work on Johnson & Johnson's CaringCrowd. Additionally, 68 compa- nies from Brazil secured $37 million in funding and made thousands of business contacts. Bem feito, brasileiros! E parabéns! SXSW 2017 FEATURED SPEAKERS LAUNCH FINERY.COM Brooklyn Decker and Whitney Casey are garnering a lot of great press with the launch of their site Finery.com, which is changing the way people dress and shop. Finery, dubbed "The Warehouse Operating System," captures all of your past purchases and organizes them in an online wardrobe. Perhaps the best part? Never miss a return window, while getting wishlist sale alerts and automated price adjustments. Be Brasil (Brazil) Lounge, photo by Merrick Ales Wifisfuneral photo by Hubert Vestil/Getty Images WIFISFUNERAL SIGNED TO INTERSCOPE/ALAMO AT SXSW Up-and-coming Florida rapper Wifisfuneral signed a deal with Interscope/Alamo Records at SXSW. After the success of his latest mixtape "When Hell Falls", the 19 year-old artist met with Alamo Records founder Todd Moscowitz in Austin to finalize the details of the contract. COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS The SXSW Community Service Awards celebrate the spirit of community in Austin that we think is unique to our event. Each spring, ten recipients are recognized for their use of digital technology to help others. Each honoree receives a complimentary SXSW badge, a $1,000 grant to their favorite 501(c)(3) and a chance to spread the word about their work to the SXSW community. The SXSW Community Service Awards memorializes one of the original co-founders of the SXSW Interactive Festival, Dewey Winburne, by honoring ten indi- viduals using technology to help others. Read more. PANELPICKER OPENS JUNE 26! It's already time to start thinking about SXSW 2018! We were blown away by the innovative program- ming submissions for 2017, so we are excited to begin looking ahead to next season. Propose SXSW 2018 programming ideas through PanelPicker® starting Monday, June 26 through Friday, July 21. PanelPicker is the official SXSW user-generated session submission platform. This easy, two-step online process gives the SXSW community a voice in what creative and thought-pro- voking programming is chosen and scheduled at the SXSW Conference, SXSWedu, and SXSW Gaming. During the open applica- tion process, we encourage the community to upload proposals related to music, film, and digital technologies in variety of formats including panels, solo presenta- tions, workshops, and more.

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