It’s 1999, New Years Eve in north London where three friends will end the evening in south London at at a big, important club party called “Twice As Nice”. That is, if they can score the expensive and elusive tickets. None of them is loaded, but one seems to think he can talk his ex… Continue reading SXSW 2022: PIRATES
Category: Festivals
SXSW 2022: THE CELLAR
Elisha Cuthbert and Elon Macken star in this Irish horror film, directed by Brendan Muldowney. Set in a creepy yet stately old mansion in the Irish countryside, Keira and Brian Woods and their two teens Ellie and Steven have just moved far from home to start a new business. They will be monetizing social influencers… Continue reading SXSW 2022: THE CELLAR
SXSW 2022: IT’S QUIETER IN THE TWILIGHT
In a pleasant office park in California the last scientists of the Voyager project follow two explorers in space, Voyager One and Two. In 1977 the two were launched to take advantage of an alignment of the planets that occurs only once every seventeen years. First Voyager Two was launched in a southerly direction, then… Continue reading SXSW 2022: IT’S QUIETER IN THE TWILIGHT
SXSW 2022: I LOVE MY DAD
Franklin Green is a student who is in group counseling after a suicide attempt. After completing the sessions, he returns to his mother’s home. He has long been estranged from his father Chuck, (Paton Oswald) after a childhood of missed birthdays and sincere but empty promises. Franklin has blocked him from his phone… Continue reading SXSW 2022: I LOVE MY DAD
SXSW 2022: EMERGENCY
Kristen “KD” Dávila (“Motherland: Fort Salem” TV Series) wrote the short film Emergency and Carey Williams (R#J) directed, going on to win the Best Narrative Short at SXSW 2018. The feature-length adaptation by Williams and Dávila premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Texas premiere of the film was held at the SXSW 2022… Continue reading SXSW 2022: EMERGENCY
Emergency Feature Film Arrives in Theaters and Amazon Prime Video
Director Carey Williams and screenwriter KD Davila’s narrative feature film Emergency is a Sundance Film Festival 2022 winner of the Screenwriting Award and subsequently was an Official Selection at the SXSW Film Festival in the Festival Favorites category this past March. If it sounds familiar, it can be because it was a 2018 award winning… Continue reading Emergency Feature Film Arrives in Theaters and Amazon Prime Video
WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD (Documentary Short)
Mexican-American filmmaker Alejandra Vasquez returns to her hometown of Denver City, Texas, to document the effects of the boom-and-bust economic cycles of the oil industry on the single-source economy of that town. Denver City is in West Texas, just Southwest Lubbock, near the New Mexico border. It is in the middle of nowhere if you… Continue reading WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD (Documentary Short)
SLIM PICKINS
Watch the unlikely story of a man (Jahmicah Dawes) who knows little about the outdoors but decides to open up an outdoor outfitter store. Also, he happens to be a black man in the small Texas town of Stephenville, where they had a Klan rally as recently as 2007. This charming video documents the warm-hearted… Continue reading SLIM PICKINS
SXSW 2022: THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
When it was announced that the programmers of this year’s SXSW had selected this new action-comedy starring Nicolas Cage, I was beyond excited. Since I first heard about this film, I simply could not wait to watch it, and seeing it at Austin’s Paramount Theater at the film festival, with the filmmakers and lead actors… Continue reading SXSW 2022: THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
SXSW: SISSY
I am not a huge fan of horror films. Some bore me and others just gross me out, but occasionally, I stumble across one that excites me. During the SXSW Film Festival this year, ‘Sissy’ a film directed and co-written by Kane Senes and Hannah Barlow engaged and surprised me. Clever writing and even more… Continue reading SXSW: SISSY