I’m just really excited to be a part of this community and watch these people work together to build their stories because the opportunities are here. It’s just such a rich culture of artistry. Jackson, who is from Philadelphia and relocated to Austin from Los Angeles, said Austin’s artistic community “is just so rich. “And I’m telling them, ‘Graduate and stay.’ Continue to fellowship, continue to work with people on your level, and create content and build each other up and grow with one another and see whose stories resonate and what stories stick.”
“When I’m speaking to kids at UT, especially kids that look like me that are really frustrated, all they want to do is graduate and leave,” Jackson said. The brunch panel also included Emmy and Tony Award-winning producer, Mike Jackson, who hosts the University of Texas at Austin’s “Why Not Me” series about helping traditionally underrepresented creatives break through. He was presented the award by Scott Cooper, who directed him in 2017’s Hostiles, his first film role.Īlso Read: Michael B. Majors in some ways epitomizes the Texas film outsider who broke through with help from festival acclaim: After accolades for his lead role in The Last Black Man in San Francisco, which premiered at Sundance, he is starring in some of the biggest films of this decade, including Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the first of multiple Marvel films in which he’ll appear. Majors, who grew up in Cedar Hill, Texas, near Austin, did attend the induction ceremony Friday night, held at Willie Nelson’s movie ranch and venue in Luck, outside Austin. The brunch panel included all the inductees except Majors, whose new film Creed III opened Friday. “The tagline is just so brilliant because it does take everybody playing their part - the filmmakers don’t come to life unless audiences are watching them. Janet Pierson, who led SXSW Film and TV for 15 years and has been director emeritus since last year, praised the film society’s tagline – Make Watch Love Film - as representative of the city’s cinema community. One of the most influential festivals in Texas film, or anywhere, is Austin’s SXSW.
And I think there’s never been a better opportunity to make that happen.” “It’s so important to keep refreshing the pipeline, because as we all know, cinematic storytelling needs to reflect the world we live in. And I think whether it’s here or regional festivals around the country or around the world, the tools have gotten more affordable, new voices can get their things shown,” De Luca said. We’re actually all paying attention to what breaks through at these festivals. “Get it to places like the Austin Film Society or to festivals, and get your work seen. What’s alleviating that problem, he said, is technology that makes it easier than ever for outsider filmmakers to “just make stuff.” How to Get Discovered, According to Michael De Lucaīut will companies like Warner Bros.
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