At an SXSW film panel over the weekend, insiders talked about the social side of the biz: parties, networking, drinking... Karina over at the re-launched Cinematical.com reported on the session:

Intended, as [Allen] Bain put it, as "a brief anthropological study of [the behavoirs of] people who work in film," the most comprehensively covered theme seemed to be "how to behave at a party if you want someone to read your script."

Meanwhile, "Four Eyed Monsters" filmmakers Susan Buice and Arin Crumley's latest videoblog dispatch from Austin gives a first hand look inside a film party, as a group head to an after-party at the Hilton and then stumble across a tipsy woman chatting on her cell phone with a guy she is interested in...