SXSW Review: Cornbread Mafia is a slice of colorful homegrown true crime
A kind of documentary I really enjoy is "good storytellers tell stories." Think last year's Endless Cookie . A new addition to that very specific canon is Cornbread Mafia , which premiered at SXSW last week, and is a rollicking good time. It's a hangout movie, a crime movie, a stoner comedy. It has a lot going on, and a lot going for it. I came upon this doc, from directors Evan Mascagni and Drew Morris, because it was the only feature playing at SXSW this year that was marked as animation. Which, like, shame on the festival. But I'm glad it brought this wild ride of a story to my attention. This isn't a fully animated doc like Endless Cookie or Flee , but is more in line with something like A Paradise Lost or I Was Born This Way . Because of the nature of the story, and when it was all playing out, there isn't a wealth of archive footage to bring some of the movie to life. So the filmmakers (quite smartly, I think) have turned to animation to present a ...
