Filmmaker Adam Barton’s “The Boy Who Saved The World” documentary was set to premiere this Sunday at SXSW. Two weeks ago, Barton thought there was a zero chance the film festival would be canceled and as each day passed, the odds went up. “I had a brief moment thinking it was going to be a zombie zone,” Barton says until the City of Austin, Texas pulled the plug. “It’s definitely tough,” he said.
Barton scrambled to finish the film, working hard to make the deadline so hearing about the cancellation was a disappointment. “In the filmmaking world, we spend hours in a dark room with one or two people.
Eventually, you live for that moment knowing it will be shown in a bigger dark room and there’s a part with people talking about the whole
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