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SXSW Film Festival Heads to Amazon

The SXSW Film Festival joins other cancelled or postponed film fests looking for alternate ways to screen their movies.
This year's SXSW festival was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now the films that were scheduled to be shown there have the option to be screened on Amazon.

Amazon Prime Video will be hosting some of the movies that never got screen time at this year's cancelled SXSW Film Festival. Amazon that the online film festival will be free to all audiences for 10 days — but you will need an Amazon account.

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