Among all the possible places to launch an indie horror film in which brains and body parts splatter across the Australian bush, SXSW might seem like a pipe dream. And yet that’s exactly where Sissy directors Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes found themselves earlier this year: in the back row of an Austin cinema for the premiere of their movie.
“Of course, we’re sitting there in our neurotic nervousness,” Barlow recalls. She was so anxious she might have had her eyes scrunched shut. “I don’t even remember it. Kane was like, ‘They were loud, Hannah!’”
