What a difference a year makes. Last year at the 2014 SXSW Film Conference & Festival a respectable 23 films had been cut with Premiere Pro, including gems like Evaporating Borders by Iva Radivojevic and The Immortalists by Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado. That total has more than doubled with 60 films showing this year edited in Adobe’s professional NLE. Similar growth in Premiere Pro and Creative Cloud usage was seen at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and 2014 ended with a bang with the release of David Fincher’s Gone Girl, edited entirely in Premiere Pro with over 80% of the film including effects assembled in After Effects”

“We’re really excited to see our growth at SXSW, especially given how this event cuts across genres to showcase artistry in so many different disciplines,” said Al Mooney, senior product manager for Adobe Premiere Pro. “Premiere Pro is increasingly becoming the go-to NLE, both for established and up-and-coming filmmakers,” he explained. “Editors tell us they feel right at home very quickly and the tight integration other Creative Cloud applications, like After Effects and Photoshop make this an incredible creative environment to work in.”

Edited in Premiere Pro, Twinsters, directed by Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, is a documentary premiering at SXSW 2015

Adobe Creative Camp at SXSW 2015
For filmmakers attending SXSW, Adobe will be hosting a Creative Camp on Friday, March 13th and Saturday, March 14th, including two sessions focused on video content creation and storytelling.
• Christine Steele “Story Structure Secrets”
• Dave Werner “Make Social Media POP! With Video”

Below is a listing of films showing at the 2015 SXSW film Conference & Festival that incorporated Premiere Pro CC in their post-production workflow.

Narrative Feature Competition
• THE BOY Director: Craig Macneill, Screenwriters: Craig Macneill, Clay McLeod Chapman (World Premiere)
• Creative Control Director: Benjamin Dickinson, Screenwriters: Benjamin Dickinson, Micah Bloomberg (World Premiere)
• KRISHA Director/Screenwriter: Trey Edward Shults (World Premiere)
• Uncle John Director: Steven Piet, Screenwriters: Erik Crary, Steven Piet (World Premiere)

Uncle John, directed by Steven Piet and cut on Premiere Pro, is premiering at SXSW 2015 in the Narrative Competition

Documentary Feature Competition
• Peace Officer Directors: Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber (World Premiere)
• Twinsters Directors: Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto (World Premiere)

Narrative Spotlight
• The Frontier Director: Oren Shai, Screenwriters: Webb Wilcoxen, Oren Shai (World Premiere)

Documentary Spotlight
• Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play Director: Jerome Thélia, Screenwriters: John Fox, Jerome Thélia (World Premiere)
• A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story Director: Sara Hirsh Bordo (World Premiere)
• For Grace Directors: Kevin Pang, Mark Helenowski (World Premiere)
• GTFO: Get The F% Out Director: Shannon Sun-Higginson (World Premiere)
• Raiders! Directors: Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen (World Premiere)
• Rolling Papers Director: Mitch Dickman (World Premiere)

Visions
• Ava’s Possessions Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Galland (World Premiere)
• The Nymphets Director/Screenwriter: Gary Gardner (World Premiere)
• Planetary (UK/USA) Director: Guy Reid, Screenwriter: Steve Watts Kennedy (World Premiere)
• A Wonderful Cloud Director/Screenwriter: Eugene Kotlyarenko (World Premiere)

The Boy, helmed by Craig McNeill is premiering this year at SXSW and was also edited on Adobe’s professional NLE

Midnighters
• The Diabolical Director: Alistair Legrand, Screenwriters: Alistair Legrand, Luke Harvis (World Premiere)
• Excess Flesh Director: Patrick Kennelly, Screenwriters: Sigrid Gilmer, Patrick Kennelly (World Premiere)
• The Nightmare Director: Rodney Ascher
Pod Director/Screenwriter: Mickey Keating (World Premiere)

24 Beats Per Second
• Theory of Obscurity: a film about The Residents Director/Screenwriter: Don Hardy (World Premiere)

SXGlobal
• Free Entry (Hungary) Director/Screenwriter: Yvonne Kerékgyártó (North American Premiere)

Festival Favorites
• Being Evel Director: Daniel Junge, Screenwriters: Daniel Junge, Davis Coombe

Special Events
• Jonathan Demme Presents Made In Texas Directors: Louis Black, Mark Rance (World Premiere)

Narrative Shorts
• Baby Director: Samuel Aaron Bennett
• Followers (Australia/UK) Director: Tim Marshall
• We’ll Find Something Director: Casey Gooden

Documentary Shorts
• Boxeadora (USA/Cuba) Director: Meg Smaker
• Every Day Director: Gabe Spitzer
• Growth Director: Mishka Kornai
• THE LAST MILE Director: Ondi Timoner
• Picturing Barbara Kruger Director: Pippa Bianco
• Spearhunter Directors: Adam Roffman, Luke Poling
• Terms of Intimacy Director: Melissa Langer

Animated Shorts
• Butter Ya’Self Director: Julian Petschek
• Half Wet (UK) Director: Sophie Koko Gate
• PALM ROT Director: Ryan Gillis
• Pig Director: Steven Subotnick
• teeth (UK/Hungary/USA) Directors: Daniel Gray, Tom Brown

Midnight Shorts
• WELCOME to WILLITS: AFTER SUNDOWN Director: Trevor Ryan

Texas Shorts
• Melville Director: James M. Johnston
• The OceanMaker (USA/Belize) Director: Lucas Martell
• Star Cadets Director: Joe Nicolosi
• Woman of the World Director: Allison Cook

Texas High School Shorts
• as needed. Director: Jonah Goldberg
• Greg The Magnificent Directors: Umar Qadeer, Nick Chaviers
• Home Director: Caitlin O’Brien
• I am not a Hero Director: Murphy Studebaker
• It’s A Thing Directors: Meredith Morran, Sage McCommas
• Just Your Average Joe Directors: Pearl Basinski, Jade Basinski
• KERS Director: Alexia Salingaros
• Luminosity Director: Alexia Salingaros
• Pokemon Rivals Trailer Directors: Josh Ulmer, Branden Shoemaker

Music Videos
• Boy & Bear – “Bridges” (Australia) Director: Summer DeRoche
• Hudson and Troop – “Frameless” (Australia) Directors: Andrew Goldsmith, Darcy Prendergast
• Jack Kovacs (feat. Huxlee) – “The Empty House” Director: Anna Zlokovic
• Nils Frahm – “Re” (Hungary) Director: Balázs Simon
• Saint Pepsi – “Fiona Coyne” Director: Matt Walker
• Valentino Khan – “Make Some Noise” Director: Tim Hendrix

We’ll be posting interviews with some of these filmmakers in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please visit the Adobe pro video page to learn more about the Adobe Creative Cloud video applications