“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 […]
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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 – 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 Review – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
The Opening film at SXSW film festival after a three year hiatus was the most perfect film to open the festivities after the long pandemic that we all went through. As the creators The Daniels said in their opening remarks, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE shouldn’t exist but somehow it got made. There were two […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – CLEAN director Lachlan McLeod
“CLEAN is an exploration into the hidden world of trauma cleaning, which is the business of cleaning death, hoarding and squalor. Our main focus is the journey of incredible business owner Sandra Pankhurst, whose own life is full of ups and downs and whose declining health has left her at a crossroads. It is about […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – CLARE director Lauren Minnerath
“CLARE is a short proof of concept for an upcoming feature film I’ll be directing. I don’t want to give too much away, but the short is essentially about an emotionally vulnerable teenager’s inappropriate relationship with her high school teacher and her teacher’s husband. It’s also a comedy.” Filmmaker Lauren Minnerath on CLARE which screens […]
SxSW 2022 Interview – BIRDS director Katherine Propper
“BIRDS is a mosaic of moments in the lives of teenagers during the heat of Texas summer. The film grapples with human fragility in the pursuit of many of life’s greatest endeavors— love, friendship, adventure, and finding beauty.” — Filmmaker Katherine Propper on BIRDS which is screening in the shorts section of SxSW 2022. Welcome […]
SxSW 2021 Interview – THE MOOGAI director Jon Bell
THE MOOGAI is an Australian Aboriginal psychological horror about a young couple who have to face a malevolent spirit that wants to take their newborn baby. The themes deal with Australia’s “Stolen Generations”, as well as the ways in which trauma jumps from parent to child and lastly Post Natal Depression. In the tradition of […]
SxSW 2021 Interview – STUFFED creators Theo Rhys and Joss Holden-Rea
STUFFED is a musical about a taxidermist who wants to ‘stuff’ a human and the human she finds online who wants to be ‘stuffed’. It’s like one of those grim rumours you might have been freaked out by as a kid, or heard about happening on the dark web. Something you can’t unhear. Maybe un-surprisingly […]
SxSW 2021 Interview – THE MOHEL director Charles Wahl
After celebrating the birth of their first child, James and Lola are faced with family expectations and financial strain as they fly in a Mohel to perform their son’s Brit Milah – The circumcision ceremony. Having its World Premiere at SxSW Online in the Narrative Shorts Competition, we speak with director Charles Wahl on THE […]
SxSW 2021 Interview – THE THING THAT ATE THE BIRDS directors Sophie Mair & Dan Gitsham
On the North Yorkshire Moors, Abel, Head Gamekeeper, discovers the thing that is eating his grouse. Having its North American Premiere in the MIdnight Shorts section, we speak with the team behind THE THING THAT ATE THE BIRDS! How did you first hear about SxSW and wishing to send the short into the festival? SXSW […]
‘The Most Hated Woman in America’ is the Most Unsatisfying Biopic on Netflix
By: Debbie Wang Some people can’t act through a wet paper bag. Melissa Leo can act her way through anything, including a black cloth hood put on over her head in a kidnapping scene. But all the *acting* in the world can’t save this film. Netflix’s The Most Hated Woman in America, which had its world premiere […]