SXSW Film will still be handing out awards, screening festival entries for press
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The popular culture panorama continues to strive to determine what the hell it’s going to do with itself over the subsequent a number of months, as giant swathes of the leisure business abruptly shut down as a consequence of worries over the unfold of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The movie festivals began going early and sometimes, in fact, with SXSW being the primary of the key elbow-rubbing alternatives to shutter its doorways. (Observe: Don’t rub anybody else’s elbows. Or your personal, if we’re being abundantly cautious.) However simply because Austin gained’t be enjoying host to tens of hundreds of filmmakers, studio execs, and extra this 12 months, doesn’t imply that at the least some points of SXSW Movie gained’t nonetheless be in place. Most notably? Awards!
The L.A. Times reports today that the movie department of SXSW has introduced that it nonetheless intends handy out accolades to the films already slated to be in competitors at this 12 months’s fest—which suggests stated movies may even nonetheless be capable to promote themselves as SXSW award nominees, in addition to be eligible for main awards that require a pageant displaying with a view to decide eligibility. In fact, that doesn’t make up for the large networking alternatives which have now been changed with “widespread rest room paper hoarding,” or the sheer “That is what we’ve been working towards” thrill of airing a movie in entrance of a packed crowed of pageant goers. Nonetheless, although, it’s presumably higher than nothing.
In the meantime, questions on how these motion pictures would possibly get to see the sunshine of day stay open. SXSW has introduced that it’ll offer the films set to air there—together with movies just like the pageant’s supposed opener, Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson’s The King Of Staten Island—the chance to be added to an internet streaming archive that’ll be made accessible to press, consumers, and different business sorts. (No phrase but on what number of are taking the chance to take action, or selecting to carry off within the hope of getting a “actual” pageant premiere afterward.) Nonetheless, the requires some sort of “on-line SXSW” which have made the rounds on social media—permitting common of us to get the identical deluge of content material they could have obtained had the pageant not been canceled—are nonetheless unlikely to achieve fruition any time quickly.
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