Other films playing at "South By South Swanberg"
In Eric Kohn's article on indieWIRE, mumblecore gets a drubbing, but he also makes mention of films getting dangerously overlooked, with a particular note to Barry Jenkins' "Medicine for Melancholy" which picked up some late buzz mid-fest:
...the warmly poetic festival entry "Medicine for Melancholy" examines the aftermath of a breakup and finds some semblance of hope. At a packed screening earlier this week, one of the audience members asked during the Q & A session whether director Barry Jenkins' first film could be deemed mumblecore. In this case, the label would seem like condensation. A fiercely intellectual story about two San Francisco residents hanging out the day after a one night stand, "Meloncholy" is too streamlined, or coherent, to justify the title.Check out the trailer:
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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