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To commemorate the 25th edition of the SXSW Film Festival<\/a>, we continue our weekly alumni spotlight on careers launched, artists discovered, powerful performances, and more with filmmaker Jamie Babbit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n After her groundbreaking debut film But, I\u2019m a Cheerleader<\/em>, Babbit world premiered her third feature, The Itty Bitty Titty Committee<\/em> at SXSW 2007, where it earned the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature Competition. In 2015, she brought her ensemble dark comedy Fresno<\/em>, starring Natasha Lyonne<\/strong>, Judy Greer<\/strong>, Molly Shannon<\/strong>, Fred Armisen<\/strong>, Ron Livingston<\/strong>, and Aubrey Plaza<\/strong>. Babbit has worked consistently in television and directed multiple of episodes of hit television series such as, Gilmore Girls<\/em>, Looking<\/em>, Girls<\/em>, Silicon Valley<\/em> (also co-executive producer), and more!<\/p>\n We are pleased to share her #SXSWFilm 25 story with you.<\/p>\n “I love SXSW because I made a film about a ragtag punk group of ladies who blow up phallic symbols in DC (The Itty Bitty Titty Committee<\/em>) and not only did SXSW show it, but the jury gave us an award. The SXSW audiences are fearless and the programmers aren’t scared to show some out there films.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll never forget that at our Itty Bitty Titty Committee<\/em> premiere at The Alamo Drafthouse, a petite shy woman whom I would NEVER think would like this punk film just started crying as she came up to me afterwards whispering ‘it’s just so empowering’. This encounter is why I make movies. Thank you, SXSW!”<\/p>\n Stay tuned to SXSW News<\/a> each week for more 25th edition stories.<\/p>\n Grab your Film Badge<\/a> today for primary access to all SXSW Film events including world premieres, roundtables, workshops, and parties. Register to attend<\/a> by Friday, January 12<\/strong> and save. Book your hotel through SXSW Housing & Travel<\/a> for the best available rates.<\/p>\n Stay tuned for the 2018 SXSW Film Festival lineup which will be announced in January.<\/p>\n Follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and SXSW News<\/a> for the latest SXSW coverage, announcements, and updates.<\/p>\n See you in March! <\/p>\n World Premiere of Fresno at SXSW 2015 – Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images for SXSW<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n The post 25 Years of SXSW Film Festival – Jamie Babbit<\/a> appeared first on SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: SxSW Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To commemorate the 25th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, we continue our weekly alumni spotlight on careers launched, artists discovered,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2018\/01\/541571771ML00011_Fresno_201-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-J1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Join Us For SXSW 2018<\/h3>\n