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SXSW to close out fest with "Life"

Toni Gonzales
Feb 24, 2017
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Austin, Texas, February 22, 2017

South by Southwest

®(SXSW®) Conference and Festivals

(March 10-19, 2017) announced the World Premiere of Life

directed by Daniel Espinosa as its Closing Night Film on Saturday March 18, 2017 at the Zach Theatre. Columbia Pictures and Skydance’s Life is a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard

the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

“We are thrilled to close out the 2017 SXSW Film Festival with such a special film as "Life,” said

Janet Pierson, Director of Film. “Our audiences will love this taut space thriller’s twists and turns

as well as its amazing cast.” “I’m so honored that Life has been chosen as the closing film at

South by Southwest,” added Daniel Espinosa. “The people that flock to Austin each year are some of the most engaged and passionate fans of film out there and are the perfect audience to introduce our visceral sci-fithriller. I hope that, with "Life", we find new ways to entertain them, terrify them, and thrill them.”Life" features an ensemble cast of Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds,Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya. The film is directed by Daniel Espinosa.