What’s new this week? How about re-issues of two Roger Corman classics? A fantastic drama about depression and post-suicide (attempt) dating? A Thai cattle-herder who rides around on rockets? Hot Asian nurses who kill one of their own then find themselves haunted by her ghost? And Andy Griffith.

As you know, we are here in Austin covering the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. And as part of that, we thought it appropriate to bring you up to speed on which movies were bringing home some hardware at last night’s SXSW Film Awards ceremony.

MINE: Taken By Katrina is a story about the pets who lived in the path of Hurricane Katrina, but it’s also about the owners who chose (or were forced) to evacuate without them and the families who eventually adopted them into their homes.

We dragged some hotel chairs together, flipped on a camera, and tricked the director and producer of MINE into thinking we were legitimate journalists in order to bring you a fantastic discussion of ethical and legal gray areas in the wake of a natural disaster.