On Thursday, March 15, 2012 I attended a special screening of Last Call at the Oasis at the SXSW Film Festival. The sold-out event was held at the intimate 120-seat Alamo Lamar in Austin, Texas. The film was a selection in the Festival Favorites section.
While I attend festivals primarily for narrative features, works of fiction, I’m certainly not averse to seeking out quality documentaries. In fact, they’ve often shown up on my lists of Top Picks from the various fests I’ve attended. Many SXSW docs have wowed me in the past few years and were among my favorites, including Billy the Kid, Body of War, FrontRunners, The Wrecking Crew, 45365, Helvetica, and last year’s Foo Fighters. Some are simply enjoyable and entertaining. Others are shocking and even painful to watch. But only a few deserve the label “important,” and this is one of them. Last Call at the Oasis could do for the global water crisis what An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change (or tried to do, at least). With the same organization behind it, Participant Media, this film certainly has the right people at the helm.
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