SXSW 2012 Photos: Braving the Wild Red Carpets

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Gabrielle Union and Brian Savelson, In Our Nature

The red carpets at SXSW are often a little crazy. The SXSW staff and volunteers do an excellent job of managing these events, but there are many people in a small space and afterwards you don't really want to see the related movie as much as you want to find the nearest bar. It is not a task for the weak or easily intimidated. I did cover the Trash Dance red carpet this year but that was much smaller and quieter compared to, say, The Cabin in the Woods.

Fortunately, this year a pair of courageous and intrepid photographers offered their red-carpet shooting skills to Slackerwood: Molly Dinkins and Dick De Jong. What follows is a sampling of the great photos they snapped during a number of SXSW 2012 red carpets -- and a couple of Q&As -- whether of first-feature screenwriters or well known celebrities, representing movies from Bernie to Killer Joe to Somebody Up There Likes Me. We've got Gabrielle Union, Johnny Knoxville ... and Austin documentary filmmaker/UT professor Paul Stekler.

I want to thank Dinkins / De Jong one more time for their excellent photos both at SXSW and at the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards.

Kristen Connolly, The Cabin in the Woods

Johnny Knoxville, Nature Calls

Girl Model red carpet

Nick Offerman, Somebody Up There Likes Me

Stephanie Hunt, Somebody Up There Likes Me

Paul Stekler, Trash Dance Q&A

See Girl Run red carpet

Derek Connolly, writer, Safety Not Guaranteed

Gabrielle Union, In Our Nature

Matthew McConaughey, Bernie red carpet

Killer Joe Q&A

Gina Gershon, Killer Joe

[Photo credit: Dinkins / De Jong. All rights reserved.]