The Session Man

Run time: 1 hr 30 min | Thesessionmanfilm.com

A documentary about the highly gifted pianist and unsung hero, Nicky Hopkins

Director: Michael Treen
Co-Producer: John Wood, Mike Sherman
Producer: Michael Treen
Territories: USA/Canada (WW may be discussed)
Rights: All Rights Available
Delivery Date: Ready for SXSW if appropriate

Cast: Nicky Hopkins, Keith Richards, Dave Davies, Harry Shearer, Pete
Townshend, Peter Frampton, Graham Parker, Bill Wyman, Slim Jim
Phantom, Glyn Johns, Jim Keltner, Greg Phillinganes, Nils Lofgren, Jorma
Kaukonen, Bob Harris, Kenney Jones, Mike McGear, Albert Lee, Terry Reid, P.P. Arnold, Chuck Leavell, Benmont Tench, Jack Casady, Helen O’Hara, Paddy Milner, Moira Hopkins

Nicky Hopkins played on many popular British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Jeff Beck, the Kinks and many more.

 Whitney Houston in focus

Run time: 40 min | whitneyhoustondocumentary.com

This film brings to the screen the untold story of photographer Bette Marshall and her one-time muse, an unknown eighteen-year-old singer the world would come to know as Whitney Houston.

Director: Benjamin Alfonsi
Writers: Benjamin Alfonsi, Bette Marshall
Cast: Audra McDonald, Bette Marshall
Territories: USA/Canada (WW may be discussed)
Rights: All Rights Available

The untold story of photographer Bette Marshall and her muse.

Flashbacks

Run time: 1h 20 min |

Currently in production. A creative documentary about the life and work of Gunnar Fischer, the Swedish cinematographer behind world cinema classics like Wild Strawberries, A Summer with Monica and The Seventh Seal (selected among the best cinematographic works of the 20th century by American Cinematographer).

Director: Pablo Salvador N.G.
Writers: Gunnar Fischer(book), Pablo Salvador N.G.
Producer: Pablo Salvador N.G., Gary Rubin
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Tomas Bolme, Anthony Dod Mantle, Lars Ekborg, Gunnar Fischer, Stefan Jarl, Erland Josephson, Lars Von Trier, and more to come.
Territories: USA/Canada (WW may be discussed)
Rights: All Rights Available

The life and work of Gunnar Fischer

Tare

Run time: 1h 20 min | Official Facebook Page

He, a gallant actor in the prime of his successful yet unfulfilling career, is taken aback when she -his teacher from acting school with whom he was secretly infatuated and who recently lost the love of her life- invites him to spend the night with her. What begins as a simple proposal, turns into a road trip through the deepest pain, sorrow and desire for human connection over the course of one night in Mexico City.

Director: Andrea Martínez Crowther
Writing credits:  Andrea Martínez Crowther, Tenoch Huerta
Executive Producer: Maria Ayub
Producer: Ixchel Coutiño, Armando Mao Padilla, (Associate Producer) Marc Martin Flores
Film Editing: Andrea Martínez Crowther, Francisco X. Rivera
Music by: Enrique Ojeda (sound recordist)
Cast: Tenoch Huerta (El), Andrea Martínez Crowther (Ella)
Cinematography: Alejandro Mejía
Territories: USA/Canada (WW may be discussed)
Rights: All Rights Available

What begins as a simple proposal, turns into a road trip through the deepest pain, sorrow and desire for human connection over the course of one night in Mexico City

Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

Run time: 1h 39 min | Official Website

Forty years after her death, reveals astounding new insight into the singer’s tragically short life and enduring musical legacy.

Director: Randy Martin
Executive Producer/Author: (writing credits) Randy Schmidt
Executive Producer: Andy Streitfeld, Carnie Wilson
Producer: Brad Osborne, Randy Schmidt
(Associate Producer): Jonathan Gann, Jonathan Gann
Cast:   Carol Burnett, Belinda Carlisle, Kristin Chenoweth, Cynthia Gibb, Bob James, Olivia Newton-John, Cubby O’Brien, Suzanne Somers, Carnie Wilson
Production manager: Katie Chase, Amanda Metz
Territories: USA/Canada (WW may be discussed)
Rights: All Rights Available

She’d only just begun.

Live at the Deaf Club

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In the late 1970’s, nascent punk rock bands struggling to find a home for their raucous and subversive music, found an ideal partner in the most unlikely place: The San Francisco Deaf Club.

Director: Jevon Whetter
Producers: Delbert Whetter, Justin Maurer, Jevon Whetter
Territories: USA/Canada (WW may be discussed)
Rights: All Rights Available

Two marginalized, seemingly ill-matched groups at the outer fringes of society, came together at the Deaf Club and turned it into ground zero for the SF underground punk scene.