New Orleans is going south by southwest. The festival has announced that Academy Award-nominee and producer Frank Marshall (one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment with Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg ) has a Jazz Fest documentary in the works that will be previewed at this year’s SXSW Festival on March 19.

Passholders will be able to see “work-in-progress scenes from the rough cut of Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story. This documentary weaves together live performances and interviews from the 50th anniversary of the iconic festival, featuring some of the biggest names in music, along with a wealth of archival documentary footage from the past half century.

Music lovers will remember Marshall’s work as the line producer on Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, where he helped Scorsese document the final touring concert of The Band, immortalizing the group’s performance for future generations.

Other music documentaries at this year’s festival will spotlight Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato.

As locals know, Jazz Fest 2021 will take place later this Fall.

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