Gotham Alumni at the 2022 SXSW
by Gotham on March 9, 2022 in Alumni on Screen
An essential destination for global professionals, the annual March event features sessions, music and comedy showcases, film screenings, exhibitions, professional development, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.
Congratulations to all 7 Gotham alumni films at this year’s SXSW! They are:
Aftershock
Following the preventable deaths of their partners due to childbirth complications, two bereaved fathers galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time – the U.S. maternal health crisis.
Directed and produced by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee.
Screening in the Festival Favorites section
Gotham Alum: Aftershock is an alumnus of the 2020 Gotham Week Project Market.
Boycott
When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told to choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech in 33 states in America.
Directed by Julia Bacha and produced by Suhad Babaa, Daniel J. Chalfen, and Julia Bacha.
Screening in the Festival Favorites section.
Gotham Alum: Boycott is an alumnus of the 2021 Gotham Week Project Market.
Soft & Quiet
Playing out in real time, Soft & Quiet is a runaway train that follows a single afternoon in the life of a female white supremacist as she indoctrinates a group of alt-right women, and together they set out to harass two mixed-raced Asian sisters.
Written and directed by Beth de Araújo; produced by Josh Peters, Saba Zerehi, Joshua Beirne-Golden, and Beth de Araújo
Screening in the Narrative Feature Competition.
Gotham Alum: Soft & Quiet was fiscally sponsored by The Gotham.
The Unknown Country
An unexpected invitation launches a grieving young woman on a solitary road trip through the American Midwest as she struggles to reconcile the losses of her past with the dreams of her future.
Written and directed by Morissa Maltz; produced by Laura Heberton, Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, Katherine Harper, Vanara Taing, and Tommy Heitkamp.
Screening in the Visions section.
Gotham Alum: The Unknown Country is an alumnus of the 2019 Gotham Fiction Feature Lab.
What We Leave Behind
After a lifetime of bus rides to the US to visit his children, Julián quietly starts building a house in rural Mexico. In filming his work, his granddaughter crafts a personal and poetic love letter to him and his homeland.
Directed by Iliana Sosa, written by Iliana Sosa and Isidore Bethel, and produced by Emma D. Miller and Iliana Sosa.
Screening in the Documentary Spotlight section.
Gotham Alum: What We Leave Behind is an alumnus of the 2020 Documentary Feature Lab.
A Woman on the Outside
Kristal is a young, ambitious Philadelphian driven to keep families connected to their incarcerated loved ones. But when her father and brother return from prison, she confronts the ultimate question: can she reunite her own family?
Directed by Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz; produced by Kiara C. Jones, Zara Katz, and Lisa Riordan Seville
Screening in the Documentary Spotlight section.
Gotham Alum: A Woman on the Outside is an alumnus of the 2020 Documentary Feature Lab.
Your Friend, Memphis
Memphis, a young man with cerebral palsy, is caught between the world’s expectations and his own ambitions. His story is an odyssey of dogged determination: a search for work, love, and freedom – no matter what.
Directed by David Zucker; produced by Luke Terrell and Benjamin Edelman.
Screening in the Documentary Spotlight section.
Gotham Alum: Your Friend, Memphis is an alumnus of the 2019 Documentary Feature Lab.