Interview:
Claudette Godfrey,
VP, Film & TV,
SXSW Film & TV Festival
The SXSW Film & TV Festival runs March 7-15 at various venues, with the Anna Kendrick-Blake Lively sequel Another Simple Favor opening proceedings and the Daisy Edgar-Jones- Jacob Elordi drama On Swift Horses serving as the festival’s closing film. The other headliners comprise of The Accountant 2, Ash, Death of a Unicorn, Drop, and Holland. The festival includes multiple documentaries with Austin ties, including Margaret Brown’s The Yogurt Shop Murders, Sam Wainwright Douglas and David Hartstein’s Luv Ya, Bum!, Benjamin Flaherty’s Shuffle, Tom J. Stern’s Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt, and Robert Stone’s Starman. Matthew McConaughey returns with The Rivals of Amziah King, his first live-action film since 2019. Other documentaries with Texas ties include I’m Carl Lewis, The Librarians, Selena y Los Dinos, and Uvalde Mom. Music narrative films include the rock opera O’dessa, the Cary Mulligan comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island, the relationship drama Satisfaction, and the Yugoslav refugee drama Surviving Earth. Music documentaries include Forever We Are Young, The Makings of Curtis Mayfield, and Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror. The festival also includes narrative and documentary competitive and non-competitive features, festival favorites, international selections, Midnighters, TV premieres and pilots, shorts packages, music videos, and extended, virtual, augment, and mixed reality projects. The SXSW Conference, which runs March 10-14, includes featured speakers Kevin Bacon, Issa Rae, and David Duchovny, and panels devoted to The Last of Us, black women in horror, and intimacy coordination. Aired: Feb. 19, 2025. Web site: https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film/ |
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