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What is South by Southwest?

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South by Southwest is what, like a music festival?

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All I knew was, it was a music festival, a film festival,

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this, like, place for cool people.

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And to get accepted and to go down to Austin, Texas

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to do a digital storytelling panel with Pinchas,

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it was unbelievable.

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The room was full. We were at a long table

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with Stephen Smith from USC, Shoah and Jason

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and I was there and we sat and we spoke.

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But when Pinchas spoke, he stood up, no notes,

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he just answered questions and it was from the heart.

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I decided it was very important to actually get involved

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and try as much as possible to bring alive

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and be first a witness to actually what happened

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so people should really know.

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And at the very end it just erupted into applause,

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a standing ovation.

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It was unlike anything I'd ever been to.

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And then I remember that evening we were at a restaurant

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and the music was so loud 'cause it was south by Southwest

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and we're in Austin, Texas and it's a music festival

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and things are loud.

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And the waiter at this restaurant came over

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and said something

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and Pinchas asked them to turn the music down.

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And I was like, and he goes,

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"I heard you speak yesterday.

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Absolutely." And the music just goes off in this restaurant.

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I was like, wow. It was amazing.

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And all over the, the course

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of those few days we were there, people would stop him and,

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and and tell him how incredible it was.

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And it was just, I felt so proud, amazing moment.