In fact I just made this movie so I had a reason to return to SXSW.”“I am excited to return to SXSW. “You just fall in love with Pete Davidson in a way that you just feel so much compassion for him,” she added. And we were all really, really touched by it.”This is Pierson’s 12th year as head of the festival. Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney will world premiere “Crazy, Not Insane,” a look at a psychiatrist who has spent her career examining violent people. Frank Oz will premiere his new film, “In & Of Itself,” about storyteller and conceptual magician Derek DelGaudio.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 15, 2020 20:02 UTC