Summary: Indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg visits Filmwax Radio recording from Austin, Texas in the last of these dispatches from the SxSW Film Festival. Joe discusses his latest film, a sort of romantic comedy called DRINKING BUDDIES which stars Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick & Ron Livingston. SYNOPSIS: Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They're perfect for each other, except that they're both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between "friends" and "more than friends" really blurry? Beer. [From Wikipedia] Joe Swanberg was born on August 31, 1981 in Detroit. He attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a film major, earning a Bachelor's Degree in 2003. Two years later, Swanberg directed his first feature, KISSING ON THE MOUTH. He followed it with LOL (2006), which marked Swanberg's first time working with actress Greta Gerwig. Gerwig and Swanberg collaborated on the director's next two features: HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (2007), which also starred filmmakers Andrew Bujalski, Ry Russo-Young, and Mark Duplass and marked Swanberg's first collaboration with animator and actor Kent Osborne; and NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS (2008), on which Gerwig shared a directing credit. Swanberg's next feature, ALEXANDER THE LAST, was produced by Noah Baumbach, who would later cast Gerwig opposite Ben Stiller in his 2010 film GREENBERG. After spending all of 2009 working on Silver Bullets, Swanberg finished seven features in 2010: UNCLE KENT, Caitlin Plays Herself, THE ZONE, ART HISTORY, SILVER BULLETS, PRIVACE SETTING and AUTOEROTIC (co-directed with horror filmmaker Adam Wingard). UNCLE KENT premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and SILVER BULLETS and ART HISTORY premiered at the Berlinale in February. The rest of the 2010 films premiered theatrically in 2011 after screenings at film festivals. Four of these were later included in Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011, a DVD boxed set from the music and video label Factory 25.
