Glitter Ain't Gold

[Plays as part of the 2022 SXSW Festival online March 13 at 9:00 a.m. CST and in-person March 12 at 11:15 a.m. CST and March 16 at 6:45 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema South Lamar at 1120 So. Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX; for more information, log on to www.sxsw.com or call 512/ 861-7040.] Christian Nolan Jones' realistic, funny, low-key, down-to-earth, 13-minute film in which a sixth grader (Alfred R. Lewis III), who has a best friend (Priah Ferguson), wants to impress a girl with whom he is smitten by mowing lawns, selling candy, and detailing cars in order to buy a flashy necklace at the flea market but when he returns to school, his school crush just ignores him.
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