Gene Graham
THE GODFATHER OF DISCO
USA, 2007, Beta, 82'
Merc 17 - h. 21.00, Parco - Piazza Grande
Produzione - Production: Gene Graham
Produttore - Producer: Gene Graham, Francis Legge
Sceneggiatura - Screenplay: Gene Graham, Mel Cheren, based on Mel Cheren's powerful autobiography, My Life and the Paradise Garage: Keep On Dancin.
Montaggio - Editing: Gene Graham
Fotografia - Cinematography: Francis Legge
Cast: Louis Benedetti, Jellybean Benìtez, Joi Cardwell, Mel Cheren, David Depino, Johnny Dynell, Charles Grapone
Distribuzione - Distribution: contact@filmsalescorp.com
Il film offre un accattivante panorama dell'ascesa e caduta dell'epopea della dance music anni '70. Il film mostra tutto il chi è chi della comunità dance di quegli anni, esaminandone le correnti culturali e musicali che portarono alla nascita della musica disco.
The G.O.D offers a 'mesmerizing overview of the rise and fall of '70s-era dance music'. Through a series of interviews with a who's who of the dance music community, it examines the early 70's musical and cultural currents that gave birth to disco.
West End Records' contribution to that scene, the rise of Paradise Garage, and the onslaught of HIV/Aids and it's impact on New York City.
We look at Mel's activist years as he harnesses the power of music to fight Aids via his charity work for GMHC and 24hrs for Life/LifeBEAT. Through it all, Mel has been there, done that, lived to tell the tale and continues to do it all today.
Note di regia - Director's statement:The Godfather of Disco marks Gene Graham's directorial debut. In addition to directing and producing Mel Cheren's documentary, Gene enjoys a busy and successful editing career, cutting feature length independent movies as well as material for the advertising community. To date, The Godfather of Disco has screened at over 25 film festivals world wide, won the Jury & Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the 2007 Fire Island Film & Video Festival and has earned Gene the Emerging Filmmaker's Award at the 2007 Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.
Gene calls New York City home. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), with a BS in Advertising and Marketing Communications.
Throughout the last five years Gene has cut additional indie feature and broadcast projects. He has worked as a production assistant, a boom operator, an assistant cameraman and an assistant editor. In the end, editing turned out to be the most natural of all the film production occupations.
