Falco Ink Releases Official Slate for SXSW

Falco Ink has announced their upcoming slate of films for the SXSW digital film festival for 2021:

Mau

Directed by Benji & Jono Bergmann
Featuring Bruce Mau with Bisi Williams, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels and more
Director of Photography Stefan Würnitzer
Produced by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Jono Bergmann, Benji Bergmann
Executive Produced by Leslie Iwerks

GOOD DESIGN = GOOD TIME = GOOD LIFE. Most of us think of design visually – we imagine an expensive product, the work of a singular artist. Bruce Mau doesn’t. Over the span of his career, this creative dark horse has expanded the definition of design. From creating Coca Cola’s global sustainability platform, to rethinking a 1000-year plan for Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. From working with the greatest living architects like Koolhaas & Gehry, to designing a social movement in Guatemala. As we weave in and out of Mau’s work, past and present, we follow his most important project yet: his own life. “Designers see the world upside down – the bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.”

POTATO DREAMS OF AMERICA – World Premiere – Narrative Feature Competition
Written & Directed by Wes Hurley
Starring Tyler Bocock, Marya Sea Kaminski, Dan Lauria, Jonathan Bennett, Lea DeLaria, Sera Barbieri, Rizo, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Hersh Powers
Director of Photography Vincent Pierce
Produced by Wes Hurley and Mischa Jakupcak

A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90’s.

Potato Dreams of America is based on the award winning short film Little Potato which won the Grand Jury Award for Documentary Short at SXSW 2017. The short went on to win the Audience Awards at L.A. Outfest and Ashland Independent Film Festival as well as awards at several other festivals around the country.

OFF SEASON – World Premiere – Midnighters
Written & Directed by Mickey Keating
Starring Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Melora Walters, and Joe Swanberg
Produced by Eric Fleischman and Maurice Fadida

After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare.

#offseasonfilm

UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER – World Premiere – Documentary Feature Competition
Directed by Sonia Kennebeck (Enemies of the State, National Bird)
Produced by Ines Hofmann Kanna

A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.

WITCH HUNT – World Premiere
Written & Directed by Elle Callahan (Head Count)
Starring Gideon Adlon, Elizabeth Mitchell, Abigail Cowen, Cameron & Nicholas Crovetti, Christian Camargo
Cinematographer: Nico Aguilar, Tommy Oceanak
Producer: Eric B. Fleischman, Maurice Fadida
Executive Producers: Diane Gooch, Mickey Gooch, Jr., Andre Druskeit, Victor Shapiro
Music: Blitz // Berlin

In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.

#witchhuntmovie