SXSW Film & TV Festival — which runs March 8–16 in Austin, Texas — has cooked up an eclectic spread of studio crowd-pleasers, enterprising TV premieres, and indie gems aiming to break through.
Here is some of the most promising fare. The canon of Ilana Glazer-led indies about childbearing expands. Following 2021’s “False Positive,” Glazer plays pregnant once again in “Babes,” this time from a film script she wrote with Josh Rabinowitz in Pamela Adlon’s feature directorial debut.
The Neon comedy follows Eden (Glazer), who gets pregnant from a one-night stand and seeks help from Dawn (Michelle Buteau), a married mother of two.
In other words, “Babes” lets the “Broad City” star do what she does best: lean heavily on the support of a best buddy. Come to “Black Twitter: A People’s History” for a who’s who of the funniest moments Black people have created on the social media site now known as X.
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