Latinx Lens

75. SXSW 2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Still Working 9 to 5, A Vanishing Fog

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Episode notes

In this episode of Latinx Lens, Rosa and Cat dive into SXSW 2022 from both a virtual and in-person lens. They discuss four films from the SXSW Film Festival 2022: 

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" (2022)

Directors: The Daniels

The film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.

"Cha Cha Real Smooth" (2022)

Director: Cooper Raiff

A man who works as a bar mitzvah party host strikes up a unique friendship with a young woman and her teenage daughter.

"Still Working 9 to 5" (2022)

Directors: Camille Hardman & Gary Lane

Discussing the impact of the 1980 comedy "9 to 5" four decades later and how its message about women in the workplace has retained its original poignancy.  

"A Vanishing Fog" (2021)

Director: Augusto Sandino

It is based on a guardian of the mountains who is condemned by his fate and strives to protect the fragile ecosystem he inhabits while caring for his ailing father.

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