15 Buzzy SXSW Premieres: ‘The Fall Guy,’ ‘3 Body Problem,’ Travis Kelce’s Producing Debut and More

The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival — which runs March 8–16 in Austin, Texas — has cooked up an eclectic spread of studio crowd-pleasers, enterprising TV premieres, and indie gems aiming to break through. Here is some of the most promising fare.

Babes
The canon of Ilana Glazer-led indies about childbearing expands. Following 2021’s “False Positive,” Glazer plays pregnant once again in “Babes,” this time from a film script she wrote with Josh Rabinowitz in Pamela Adlon’s feature directorial debut. The Neon comedy follows Eden (Glazer), who gets pregnant from a one-night stand and seeks help from Dawn (Michelle Buteau), a married mother of two. In other words, “Babes” lets the “Broad City” star do what she does best: lean heavily on the support of a best buddy.

Come to “Black Twitter: A People’s History” for a who’s who of the funniest moments Black people have created on the social media site now known as X. Stay for what director Prentice Penny calls a coming-of-age story: “Are we just going to be a place for fun and jokes, or are we going to start to make things happen?” he asks. The three-part Hulu docuseries chronicles how Black Twitter users have impacted culture and politics since 2007 and questions what’s at stake now that Elon Musk owns the company. But don’t expect these talking heads to call the site anything besides its original name.

Doin’ It
When Lilly Singh said goodbye to NBC’s “A Little Late,” she cited a desire to focus on long-form content that the 1:30 a.m. time slot didn’t afford her. Enter “Doin’ It,” her debut narrative feature as a writer, which is seeking distribution. Singh also stars as Maya, a virgin who accidentally finds herself teaching high school sex education, a premise that returns her to the outrageous brand of comedy that made her famous on YouTube before she crossed over to Hollywood.