At this year's
SXSW we asked
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo director
Bradley Beesley to take along
Nokia's N95 multimedia device to shoot pictures of his funny and touching doc about women convicts who get the chance to compete in a rodeo.
We thank Bradley and the crew of
Sweethearts for taking part in this. Here's his photo diary.
Here's a shot from the VIP balcony at the newly remodeled Alamo
Ritz theatre. This pic is of our opening credits -done by the fine
folks at SUPER! ALRIGHT! a post house here in Austin. What you can't
see from this photo is that a man is being gored by a 1500 pound bull
and flipped 10 feet in the air.
This was at our cast and crew dinner at Progress Coffee Shop. I
made fajitas for everyone and we drank mountains of Chimay beer. This
photo with Louisianna Kreutz, our editor, and Melissa Scaramucci, our
associate producer, must have been taken before I started serving
food because at the end of the night I was covered in guacamole, meat
juices and beer.
If you're wondering why those 3 people to the right of that
bearded beast look so miniature, it's because that's the tallest man
in Oklahoma (7 feet tall and 385 pounds of half man/half big foot)
who happens to be our talented cinematographer Mr. Alan Novey and yes
he bites. Also, dwarfed with me is James Payne and Amy Dotson our
sweet producers. This was after our second screening at the Alamo
Ritz -we once again packed the house and I somehow managed to win a
pizza eating contest during our screening.
Pictured here is Dr. Michael Friedman our trustee associate
producer. Michael is holding a
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo wallet which was hand made by the female inmates at the Eddie Warrior
Correctional Center. A great deal of our film was shot on location
at the EWCC saddle shop so we thought it was fitting to order leather
goods from the prison as gifts for the cast and crew.
Here's me with Andrew Bujalski who was kind enough to make it to
our second screening. Andrew's only screening of
Beeswax was during
our premiere party so I didn't get to see his film but I can't wait
to check it out. That's the problem with these film festivals -
there's just too many great films to see in one week. Although Andrew
and I don't hang out that often in Austin we once had Thanksgiving
dinner together at a film festival in Greece.
Our main female characters had collectively been in prison for
over 25-years and I wanted this SXSW premiere to be special for the
girls so we rented a Lincoln town car, got them matching western
outfits and gave them the red carpet treatment outside the Paramount.
Here Crystal and Jamie are walking on the red carpet into the cinema
which was packed with over 1,000 people. Our premiere could not have
been any better and the ladies did an amazing job during our Q&A.
Still trapped in the Winnebago, apparently i have not only fallen
asleep while traveling at 40MPH but someone has enlarged my face to
the size of a giant pumpkin. If there's a less flattering photograph
of me I have yet to see it. Please look away.
Somehow, we thought it was a good idea to pack over 50 drunk
filmmakers into a Winnebago and drive around Austin -spilling beer on
each other, shouting out the windows and generally annoying anyone
within earshot. I am not certain what Ben Steinbauer (pictured here)
paid for this Winnebago but it was well worth every cent. We
certainly put the wreck in recreational vehicle and for the record
the giant man Mr. Alan Novey was driving.
Labels: Festival Ambassador
# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 4/08/2009 04:39:00 PM
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