Joe Swanberg Keynote | SXSW Film 2016

Joe Swanberg is the director of 20 feature films, including Hannah Takes The Stairs, Drinking Buddies, and Happy Christmas. As an actor, he has had leading roles in several horror successes, most notably You’re Next, The Sacrament, and V/H/S. Recently, through his Forager Film Company, he has produced the work of other filmmakers, including Alex Ross Perry, Harrison Atkin and Zach Clark. He and his wife, Kris, created the popular web series Young American Bodies which ran for 4 seasons on Nerve.com and IFC.com.
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[@HarrySherriff]

I love Joe Swanberg. I remember I messaged him on Myspace nearly ten years ago now and he replied with great advice & encouragement. Irrespective of what anyone thinks of his work, a great role model for filmmakers.

[@cailumreay7959]

Say what you want about his movies but this guy really cares about moviemaking and his passion is palpable

[@film_magician]

I've seen Drinking Buddies about 13 times and can't get enough. Love it. Keep it up Joe - it's definitely inspiring to fellow filmmakers.

[@LungileMayindi]

i come back to watch this video every few months for inspiration! I just love it

[@cauthoncrazy]

Wow I love that he is someone who isn't afraid to spell out the numbers and the realities of this business. Greatly inspiring!

[@5r248]

Joe Swanberg is probably my favorite director, ever since Young American Bodies. I’ve bought everything he’s ever directed except for What Fun We Were Having.

[@Liszon]

The last time I commented on a video was probably in 2008 so I logged in to say what an awesome inspiration this speech was, Joe seems like a super-duper dude, very honest, listening to him cheered me up a lot!

[@kartikjain7105]

Richard Brody has a wonderful article about this speech and also about his movies

[@jasonwhytemedia]

A terrific talk and I'm sad I missed this in person at SxSW 2016. Also the amount of times he says the word "Money" at the end of this talk is amazing...a supercut would be totally money!

[@2315MARCO]

It's good to see and hear these talks. THANK YOU!

[@kevando_gg]

Damn, this was 5 months before Easy released. Dude is fuckin epic

[@RyanCanty1975]

So very inspiring and what I needed to hear today!

[@acoraberry3718]

I love this video. Thank you for sharing your advice! Blessings,

[@ihath]

I find this talk inspiring. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@doomhead2]

my boy repping the chi

[@jerrylentz]

Great stuff!!!

[@sunlightpictures8367]

Very inspiring!

[@JamesGWall]

A lot of this makes sense.

[@MrRosso1000]

v good

[@defiverr4697]

Didn't he take his cloths off and go full-frontal in Young American Bodies?

[@bobbylee_]

Hannah Takes The Stairs may have have no famous people at the time but it stared Greta Gerwig who would go on to direct Barbie and Mark Duplass who went on to star in Creep films.