I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be directing a concert film about Dave King’s upcoming shows in Minneapolis, entitled King for Two Days. King is the drummer for the jazz trios The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, both of which will perform at the shows and will be featured in the film, as well as four other groups King drums for, which will feature an incredible lineup of musicians from all over. I think he’s one of the greatest drummers around today and I’ve been listening to music by these groups for years, so I’m very, very excited to have the opportunity to make this film.
I fly to Minneapolis on Wednesday the 10th and will follow Dave around, filming rehearsals and preparations for the shows ahead of the performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at the Walker. I’ll be joined behind the cameras by Gordon Bell, whom I worked with on Shooting for Peace in Uganda in 2007, as well as some very talented local Minneapolis DPs to cover the shows.
If you’ve never heard or seen The Bad Plus, check this out:
And if you’ve never heard or seen Happy Apple, check this out:
I’ll post an update from Minneapolis next week… thanks for reading.
Here is a short teaser for More to Live For, a documentary feature commissioned by the Love Hope Strength Foundation and directed by Noah Hutton. The project is about to enter post-production, with the last round of interviews being filmed this week.
We are very proud to present the world premiere of BLUEBRAIN – Year One, a documentary short which previews director Noah Hutton’s 10-year film-in-the-making that will chronicle the progress of The Blue Brain Project, Henry Markram’s attempt to reverse-engineer a human brain. Enjoy the piece and let us know what you think.
Noah is working on a new documentary feature commissioned by the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The working title is “More to Live For” and it tracks the stories of three leukemia patients– one who successfully received a bone marrow transplant and overcame the disease, one who could not find a genetic match and passed away recently, and another, Seun Adebiyi, who was diagnosed this past summer and is currently looking for a match as he trains to be the first winter Olympian from Nigeria.
UPDATE: Ongoing coverage of Seun’s story in the media:
We are proud to announce a new website developed by Couple 3 Creative Director Noah Hutton:
The Beautiful Brain explores the latest findings from the ever-growing field of neuroscience through monthly podcasts, essays, and reviews, with particular attention to the dialogue between the arts and sciences. The site illuminates important new questions about creativity, the mind of the artist, and the mind of the observer that modern neuroscience is helping us to answer, or at least to provide part of an answer. Instances where art seeks to answer questions of a traditionally scientific nature are also of great interest, and for that reason you will hear from artists as well as scientists on The Beautiful Brain.
Great news: after a successful festival run, Crude Independence is now available on DVD and for download on iTunes!
We appreciate your support through this entire process, and we’re so thrilled that the film is now available and ready to be sent out.
While we understand the convenience afforded by Amazon and iTunes, we urge you to order the film directly from us so that Couple 3 Films sees the most revenue from the sale, putting us closer to making the next film.
Crude Independence director Noah Hutton was interviewed on Connecticut’s most listened to morning talk show, “Mornings with Ray Dunaway,” on WTIC 1080 AM. The interview lasts about 7 minutes and highlights the upcoming screening of CI at Wesleyan University, sponsored by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. Here’s the audio:
As we move into the spring with Crude Independence, we’re nearing an important phase…
Distribution.
SXSW was a blast and it was a thrill to show Crude Independence there. We had two screenings and got this review after one of them. It was an interesting response that showed how valuable a Q&A can be. After SXSW we brought CI to the Cleveland International Film Festival. It was a really energetic festival and very notable for the enthusiastic audiences that came out day after day, even to our first screening at 9:30 am last Saturday. At our 5 pm screening the next day we had an oil worker and a Stanley, ND native in the crowd who both spoke to their enjoyment of the film during the Q&A– it was a real thrill for us to hear this. Director Noah Hutton was profiled in the festival’s daily newsletter– you can see the piece here.
We’ve still got a few festivals on the calendar for the next months (next two: K.C. FilmFest later in April and the CT Film Festival in early June) and we’re still sending it out and hoping to line up screenings over the summer and into the fall. We’re going to start submitting abroad as well in coming months.
But we’ve also began to think about how we’re going to roll out the distribution of Crude Independence. The festivals we’ve attended in the past months have been terrific in terms of seeing other outstanding work and getting a sense of the distribution climate we’re living in for independent film, specifically documentaries. We’ve been getting great feedback and requests for the availability of the DVD, and we can’t wait to make it available on our website in the near future. It’s not so clear that there is a working model for overall distribution of an indie doc, and we’re seeing a lot of people out there who are self-distributing and coming up with novel ways to get their project out there and perhaps recoup some costs and turn a profit in the meantime. So we’ve been in dialogue about a few options for distribution of CI, but for now our hope is to make a streamlined, 55-minute cut of the film for possible TV broadcast, as well as beginning to offer DVDs for purchase most likely in May or early June. Otherwise we will continue to pursue future screenings which we may be able to attend more frequently after we graduate from college in mid-May.
Also, Crude Independence director Noah Hutton was recently profiled in the Hartford Courant– check out the article.
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