“The short depicts two stories told in parallel, both about accepting the unknown. It follows Sara, an astronaut, as she finds herself in a situation of certain death and struggling to accept death and what happens after, and Sara, as a child, being scared of sleeping in the dark and the uncertainty of what may […]
SxSW 2022 Interviews
SxSW 2022 Interview – WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION director Juliana Maité Irizarry
“If you want to make history and be part of the world premiere of the first Puerto Rican feature fiction film to be selected in SXSW, go watch our film. Olivia, who suffers from OCD, finds in David, the dealer selling her illegal pills during Christmas Eve, an unexpected connection and the beginning of a […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – THE MOJO MANIFESTO: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOJO NIXON director Matt Eskey
“Remember the guy who did the crazy MTV promos in the ’80s, sang “Don Henley Must Die” and is now a DJ on SiriusXM Outlaw Country? This is his origin story and it’s pretty fucking funny.” Director Matt Eskey on THE MOJO MANIFESTO: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOJO NIXON which screens at SxSW 2022. […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – Meet the team behind TOMORROW’S HOPE
“In TOMORROW’S HOPE you’ll get to know real people making a real difference on the South Side of Chicago. This is an experience that leads you heart-first into some of our most talked-about issues today, including systemic racism and the importance of providing access to education. It’s a journey with passionate educators and kids and […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – IT’S QUIETER IN THE TWILIGHT director Billy Miossi
“The film follows the humble, dedicated few behind NASA’s longest running mission. They are the Voyager flight team engineers – who, from a drab, low-level, rented office space next to a McDonald’s, pilot the most distant mandmade objects through the unchartered frontier of interstellar space. Fighting outmoded, 1970s techonology and an ever shrinking window of […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – BAD AXE director David Siev
“At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, I moved back home to my rural hometown in Bad Axe, MI. I began filming my close-knit Asian-American family and our struggles to keep our family restaurant alive during a very uncertain time. What I ended up capturing was a beautiful portrait of the year 2020 […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – SANTOS SKIN TO SKIN director Kathryn Golden
SANTOS SKIN TO SKIN is an outsider’s story, a film about the love of family, music and overcoming loss. John Santos’ story transcends the individual into something we can all recognize and it uses music to get us there. He’s not just a musician. He’s a culture bearer, a historian and a father who looks […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – JETHICA director Pete Ohs
JETHICA is about a woman with a stalker that she can’t get rid of but it’s really weird and oddly funny and has supernatural elements. Everything takes place on this beautiful, isolated ranch in New Mexico in the middle of nowhere. For fans of the Coen Brothers and early Jarmusch. ” Filmmaker Pete Ohs on […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – slash/back Director Nyla Innusuk
“slash/back is a movie about a group of teenage girls from a remote Arctic community who take on an alien invasion.” Director Nyla Innusuk on slash/back which screens at SxSW 2022. Welcome to SxSW! Is this your first SxSW experience? Are you attending in person or doing the virtual fest? It is! I will be […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – STILL WORKING 9 TO 5 directors Gary Lane & Camille Hardman
“Over 40 years after the comedy film 9 to 5, working women are still fighting for the same serious issues of inequality the film tried to showcase behind a veil of humor.” Filmmaker Gary Lane on STILL WORKING 9 TO 5 which is screening at SxSW 2022. Co-director Camille Hardman also joins us for this […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – MORE THAN I REMEMBER director Amy Bench
“One night at her home in southeastern Congo, 14-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself completely alone. From there, she sets out on a remarkable solo journey across the globe, determined to reunite with her lost loved ones and lift […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – HIDDEN KINGDOM directors Sunny Lee & Jacqueline Davis
“HIDDEN KINGDOM Season One is a Five-part series that follows the lives of five different dancers living and hustling in New York City. Our pilot episode Kouadio follows our main character, a classically trained ballet dancer living in Harlem. Throughout the series we blend elements of the surreal with the intimacy of a diary, HIDDEN […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – OMOIYARI: A SONG FILM BY KISHI BASHI director Kaoru Ishibashi
“What are you doing Monday at 5:45pm or Friday at 2:45? Dinner not till 8? perfect. You should come to my movie about music, history, and Asian identity, blended together like your grandma’s best Easter meringue. This film will reinvigorate your connection to humanity and leave you hungry just in time for that casual business […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – WILD BITCH directors Rebekka Johnson & Kate Nash
“WILD BITCH is a quirky thriller about a local reporter’s interview with a mousy housewife about her life-changing encounter with a coyote. This leads to an eerie trek in the woods that leaves them forever bonded with each other… and the beast. Thematically, Wild Bitch explores the connection between the destruction of nature and the […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – HOMESICK director Will Seefried
HOMESICK is an absurdist thriller about an unhappy man who visits a retreat offering adults a second chance at a happy childhood. The film attempts to answer the question: Is it ever too late to have a happy childhood? Welcome to SxSW and congratulations! Is this your first SxSW experience? I was scheduled to make […]