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How an Absent Father, a Facebook Doppelgänger and Barbie Ferreira’s Baby Pictures Helped Create SXSW Film ‘Bob Trevino Likes It’


Writer-director Tracie Laymon and star Barbie Ferreira unpack the personal touches they put on their SXSW flim 'Bob Trevino Likes It.'

When Lily’s father (played by French Stewart) cuts her out of his life for accidentally revealing to his girlfriend that he’s been dating around, she finds the “other” Bob Trevino online and the pair become fast friends. Jeanie learns to cope by making elaborate scrapbooks, a practice that moves Lily to tears — partially because her father had done the opposite, cutting her out of old family photos. So I just kind of combined that: Here’s my friend’s mom, who takes every photo of her family and adorns it as a treasure to keep for generations, where my dad put them in a bag, wrinkled.”

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