The music documentary ‘Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary Young and Pavement’ which world premiered at the 2023 SXSW Festival where it won the 24 Beats per Second Audience Award, dives into the life of Gary Young, the drummer of 90s indie Rock sensation Pavement.
Alison Ellwood’s documentary about Cyndi Lauper, Let The Canary Sing, will kick off the 24th Annual Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival taking place in Minneapolis November 8–12, 2023.
The 22nd San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) will be held June 1 – 11, 2023; and screen 39 features and 47 shorts. The festival opens with Christine Yoo’s 26.2 To Life and Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? directed by Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Nuñez Capriles.
Flamin’ Hot, the biopic drama directed by Eva Longoria on the story of Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor who claimed to have invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos won the Audience Award in the Headliners category at the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival. The film will stream on both Hulu and Disney+ on June 9.
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the second wave of the 2023 Film & TV Festival Lineup, including all Visions, Global, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections. The Festival also announced that Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef will be the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.