A chat with the filmmakers behind this year's SXSW Midnighters lineup.
By Soham Gadre · @SohamGadre · April 7, 2021, 11:10 AM EDT
Barbara Crampton in JAKOB'S WIFE.
If you told me SXSW was going to be virtual due to a worldwide virus pandemic for the first two years I was covering it, I would’ve called you crazy. The landscape of film festivals and cinema has changed drastically over the past year, from production to distribution and even the way we cover films and report on them. I wrote a piece similar to this last year, at the onset of the COVID shutdown (or, at least shutdown in theory) trying to collect a host of scrambled thoughts about a quickly changing world that was thrust upon all of us. Time has given perspective, provided chances to innovate, and even opened new avenues to the ways in which people can experience and access cinema. It’s hard to speak of any positives when dealing with something so catastrophic as what COVID has brought, but finding silver linings might be the only way to stop oneself from going insane.