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Whit Stillman considers move to Austin
Director Whit Stillman, the quintessential New Yorker known for such movies as “Metropolitan” and “The Last Days of Disco,” says he is considering relocating to Austin.
Stillman, who was in town to discuss screenwriting and present “Metropolitan” at the Austin Film Festival, has a new movie called “Damsels in Distress,” but it’s his first in 12 years. He spent much of the last decade in Europe, but recently returned to New York.
Before a panel session on developing characters on Thursday, Stillman said that he has been spending most of his time traveling in recent months, and that New York is “an expensive place to just hang my hat.”
If he leaves New York, he said, he’s considering Miami and Austin. He has friends and acquaintances in Miami, but he said Austin’s create scene “seems to be bubbling up.”
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