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WILD BLUE YONDER-Celia Maysles
Highlights:
Just seven years old when her father David Maysles (SALESMAN, GREY GARDENS, GIMME SHELTER) died in 1987 from an unexpected stroke, Celia Maysles had no idea her father and his brother Albert were pioneers of verit documentary filmmaking. Determined to uncover the secrets surrounding her background, Celia sets out on a quest to rediscover her father by using his own artistic process: verit filmmaking. In WILD BLUE YONDER, Celia takes us on a daring journey to the past, and to herself, to understand the father she never knew. A story about missing links, legacies lost and found, and the passion of filmmaking, WILD BLUE YONDER takes us deep inside a conflicted family where filmmaking remains the ultimate means to uncovering the truth.
First time filmmaker Celia Maysles talks with us about getting to know her father through filmmaking. The director discusses her desire to make an archive to remember him, her painful relationship with her father’s brother, her efforts to move her family beyond the past, and portraying difficult subject matter with dignity.
Happenings:
Before moving back to her hometown of NYC to pursue WILD BLUE YONDER, Celia Maysles worked as a social worker at a medical outreach clinic in Portland, OR. She conducted outreach at homeless camps and shelters working with injection drug users, commercial sex workers, Latino day laborers and the mentally ill. Maysles began work on WILD BLUE YONDER in 2004 and has been working in documentary production ever since. She has worked at Corra Films in project development, real people casting, and production on various projects including a VH1 pilot, a series for the Sundance Channel, several feature films and commercial campaigns. Most recently she produced a film called JACK with Henry Corra.
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Also join us as we follows filmmaker Josh Weinstein at his first film festival with his first feature documentary, Flying On One Engine. We'll be with ...
Before moving back to her hometown of NYC to pursue WILD BLUE YONDER, Celia Maysles worked as a social worker at a medical outreach clinic in Portland, OR. She conducted outreach at homeless camps and shelters working with injection drug users, commercial sex workers, Latino day laborers and the mentally ill. Maysles began work on WILD BLUE YONDER in 2004 and has been working in documentary production ever since. She has worked at Corra Films in project development, real people casting, and production on various projects including a VH1 pilot, a series for the Sundance Channel, several feature films and commercial campaigns. Most recently she produced a film called JACK with Henry Corra.
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Stay tuned for interviews with Harmony Korine (MISTER LONELY, JULIEN DONEY-BOY), Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Brendan Sexton III (THE MARCONI BROS., WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), Kevin Corrigan (THE TOE TACTIC, RSO, THE DEPARTED), Mark Webber (EXPLICIT ILLS, DEAR WENDY), Lou Taylor Pucci (EXPLICIT ILLLS, THUMBSUCKER), Greta Gerwig (YEAST, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS) and many, many more.
Also join us as we follows filmmaker Josh Weinstein at his first film festival with his first feature documentary, Flying On One Engine. We'll be with the young New Yorker as he navigates Austin, Texas, attempts to rally a posse around the film and, of course, take South by Southwest by storm. Will he survive the festival madness? Will he fill seats? Will he sell the film? FIND OUT HERE DAILY.
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