Proud parents and kids rising to the occasion: Keeping it all in the family at South by Southwest

AUSTIN, Texas — It is often said that the people who come together to make a movie end up feeling like family.At this year’s SXSW there are a number of movies where some of those people actually are family.Starring husband and wife Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, “Family Movie” also features their two adult children, Sosie Bacon and Travis Bacon.

(Sosie’s partner, the actor Scoot McNairy, has a small role as well.) The story is about a family that makes low-budget horror movies together, touching on the growing tensions their lack of success creates among them and the lengths they will go to for their latest project.“Their Town,” about two high school students connecting after they are thrown together for a school play, is directed by Katie Aselton, written by her husband Mark Duplass and stars their 18-year-old daughter Ora Duplass in her first feature.Movies This year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival will showcase new films starring Keke Palmer, Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman, Hannah Einbinder, Lola Tung and more.

There are several other films at SXSW with family ties: Jonás Cuarón’s literary adaptation “Campeón Gabacho” is produced by his father, Alfonso Cuarón, and features music by his cousin Mateo Cuarón.Dempsey Bryk directs his brother Billy Bryk in the comedy “Crash Land.” And Maude Apatow directs her mother Leslie Mann in the dramedy “Poetic License.” On a video call from a Santa Monica post-production facility where they were finishing their movie shortly before the festival, both Bacon and Sedgwick acknowledge that they co-directed “Family Movie” together but because of DGA rules, only one of them could be credited.

They decided on Bacon.“It was actually a really good one for us to direct together because we’re both acting in it,” says Bacon.“So if we had a scene where Kyra was in hair and makeup and wardrobe, I could be by the monitor.

And my technique for directing her is usually just staying out of her way a...