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SXSW Interview: Mary Wharton Pieces Together Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
11 Minutes. Before last year, that's all that anyone had seen of the recording studio footage of Tom Petty recording his 1994 game changing solo album, Wildflowers.

12:10PM Wed. Mar. 17, 2021, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Short and Sweet: “Sisters”
Welcome to Short and Sweet, our look at short films playing at SXSW. Today our pick sees accomplished film and TV editor turned filmmaker Jess Brunetto debuts her first narrative film, "Sisters."

8:00AM Wed. Mar. 17, 2021, Shane Pfender Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil
In 2018, pop star Demi Lovato lived through one of the scariest things a person can survive from: an overdose. Her latest documentary series, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil is meant to serve as window into her psyche, and open a frank discussion about her addiction.

12:30AM Wed. Mar. 17, 2021, Jenny Nulf Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
When I was a boy, growing up in the North of England, I could take you to the place where King Arthur is buried. He and the Knight of the Round Table slumber under Alderley Edge, waiting for when Albion faces its direst peril.

11:30PM Tue. Mar. 16, 2021, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Introducing, Selma Blair
Selma Blair’s escape from the world is her backyard pool: a safe space where she goes to free herself from the pain of her MS (Multiple Sclerosis), a disease that eats away at her immune system, resulting in nerve damage that prevents her brain and body from communicating.

11:13PM Tue. Mar. 16, 2021, Jenny Nulf Read More | Comment »

Waiting for the Fall as Lily Topples the World
What is it like to be in a room where one young woman is spending hundreds of hours building domino art? “Very, very, very tense,” Jeremy Workman says, referring to the setting of his new SXSW-selected documentary, Lily Topples the World.

5:30PM Tue. Mar. 16, 2021, Shane Pfender Read More | Comment »

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SXSW Film Review: Kid Candidate
In 2018, 24-year-old Hayden Pedigo released a bizarre 58-second video announcing his candidacy for Amarillo city council. At the time, Pedigo had no intention of launching an actual political career; the video was meant to be a Harmony Korine-esque exercise with an amateur filmmaker friend.

4:19PM Tue. Mar. 16, 2021, Matthew Monagle Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Executive Order
Writer-director Lázaro Ramos takes an age-old racist threat and wonders how it’d look in real life in this Brazilian thriller about a government forcing its Black citizens to “go back to Africa.”

4:00PM Tue. Mar. 16, 2021, Selome Hailu Read More | Comment »

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Barry Jenkins and Nicholas Britell Were in a Quar-Pod Together
It’s easy to admire the transportive work of filmmaker Barry Jenkins and composer Nicholas Britell, but who knew they’d embody #friendshipgoals too?

1:28PM Tue. Mar. 16, 2021, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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