Interview:
Janet Pierson,
V.P., Director of Film,
SXSW Film Festival
The SXSW Film Festival returns March 11-19 with live programming for the first time since 2019. The hybrid festival will also offer a wide selection of features, shorts, television episodes, music videos, and conference speeches and panels to stream. SXSW opens March 11 with the Daniels’ sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere All At Once and closes March 19 with the Season 3 two-episode premiere of Donald Glover’s television series Atlanta. Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped Apollo 10 ½, the Pete Davidson comedy horror Bodies Bodies Bodies, the Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum-Brad Pitt action comedy The Lost City, and the Nicolas Cage meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent round out the headliners. SXSW selections with Austin ties include Lover, Beloved, Michael Tully’s filmed version of Suzanne Vega’s one-woman show about writer Carson McCullers, and the documentaries Boycott, Mama Bears, The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon, Shouting Down Midnight, What We Leave Behind, and Your Friend, Memphis. Ti West’s Texas-set X and Chloe Okuno’s Watcher lead the Midnighters. Other notable films includes Cha Cha Real Smooth, Descendant, I Love My Dad, Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, Master, Sheryl, and This Much I Know To Be True. SXSW will also offer the first opportunity to sample the new television series DMZ, Halo, The Last Movie Stars, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and WeCrashed, among others. Remaining selections will screen and/or stream as part of SXSW’s traditional programs of Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Global, Visions, 24 Beats a Minute, Episodic Premieres and Pilots, XR Experiences Competition and Spotlight, and narrative, documentary, animated, midnight, Texas, and Texas high school shorts packages. Aired: March 3, 2022. Web site: https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film/ |
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