Credit: A.J. EatonDavid Crosby has joined the list of featured speakers at the 2019 South by Southwest Festival, scheduled to run from March 8 to March 17 in Austin, Texas. The folk-rock legend will appear on March 13 alongside filmmaker and rock journalist Cameron Crowe, who co-produced the new documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name, which premieres this month at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The movie, which is part of Sundance’s U.S. Documentary Competition, will get its debut on January 26 at the MARC Theatre in Park City, Utah, with additional screenings scheduled at various venues on January 28, 29 and 31, and on February 1 and 2.
In addition to co-producing David Crosby: Remember My Name, Crowe also conducted the interviews with David for the flick. The film was directed by A.J. Eaton and is his first full-length documentary feature.
In a video profile posted on the Sundance Institute’s official YouTube channel, Eaton explains, “David Crosby: Remember My Name is a portrait of an artist that is very paradoxical. It goes deep in places, where he is very candid and open sharing some very painful parts in his life. Sharing these stories like he has with us were part of him becoming comfortable with this last act of his life.”
Eaton maintains that “Crosby is a legendary harmony singer, but in many times when he’s singing perfect harmony on stage, his life was not harmonious at all…[A]nd that’s kind of the thing that’s…come out of this movie, which is like, ‘Who’s the person off stage?'”
The documentary also focuses on the current prolific period in Crosby’s life. As A.J. notes, “You can be 77 years old and have all the reasons that tell you not to be creating, and he is still creating.”
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