By Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer By now, the waves of event cancellations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have become so routine that they almost don’t merit mention.
But it was scarcely a month and a half ago that the cancellation of SXSX — the first major domino in the festival calendar to fall — really brought the reality of the crisis home to many in the industry.
Axed by the city of Austin just a week before it was scheduled to start, the move left countless films suddenly without a premiere or a way to get in front of buyers, and the festival organizers scrambling to salvage what they could, without any sort of a roadmap to do so.
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