Watch: New Trailer For Millennial Angst Indie & SXSW Award Winner ‘Fort Tilden'
In order to carve out a niche for themselves and forge an identity independent of Sundance, the SXSW Film Festival championed a lot of micro-indies and low-budget films that defined the “mumblecore” scene. After some years, some argued the quality of the films wasn’t very strong, but the press was good enough for SXSW to keep embracing some dynamic, but sometimes questionable and unpolished work. This came to a head at SXSW 2014, where Grand Jury Award prizewinner “Fort Tilden” extremely divided critics into a fairly binary love or hate camp with the hate side being rather vituperative.
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But a year after its worldwide debut in Austin, “Fort Tilden” is finally here and non-festival audiences can judge for themselves. Directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers “Fort Tilden” focuses on the quarter-life crisis of two millennial two-somethings. Here’s the...