Emerging careers are on hold because the covid-19 pandemic has forced the closure of SXSW and other spring festivals. So it’s worth talking to artists for whom particular festivals have been vital. One is Judd Apatow, who spoke to Variety prior to the cancellation of SXSW.
Whether he was at SXSW to unspool projects he directed or produced, Apatow was instrumental in helping to turn SXSW into a destination festival for comedy – and in particular, the types of broad comedies that rarely manage to secure serious festival attention elsewhere. Apatow was scheduled to return to Austin with SXSW’s opening night film, “The King of Staten Island,” a fictional, comedic version of Pete Davidson’s own life experience processing the death of his firefighter father in the World Trade Center. The film is currently scheduled for release June 19.
Why does SXSW gel with you the way it does?
That is a mystery.
Whether he was at SXSW to unspool projects he directed or produced, Apatow was instrumental in helping to turn SXSW into a destination festival for comedy – and in particular, the types of broad comedies that rarely manage to secure serious festival attention elsewhere. Apatow was scheduled to return to Austin with SXSW’s opening night film, “The King of Staten Island,” a fictional, comedic version of Pete Davidson’s own life experience processing the death of his firefighter father in the World Trade Center. The film is currently scheduled for release June 19.
Why does SXSW gel with you the way it does?
That is a mystery.
- 3/19/2020
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
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