My doc short “Vida Buena” will be premiering to the WORLD @camdeniff Been a dream of mine to play with this festival and couldn’t be more thrilled to be included in this years line up.
Made this film in collaboration with the virtuoso Miguel Angel Drake Reyes and his band Los Matanzeros. Cannot begin to thank them enough for their generosity and talent. Their music and tradition exceeds anything I was capable of recording.
I’ll be at the festival in person (!!!) as well as online so cannot wait to share the film with everyone.
The Band:
Miguel Angel Drake . . . . . . .Director
Hensi Mendoza Pla . . . . . . . . Singer
Sandra Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . Singer
Lazaro ‘Quinto’ Diaz. . . . Percussion
Yasmani Miranda. . . . . . . Percussion
Eliban Silva . . . . . . . . . . . Percussion
Gloria Estrada . . . . . . . . . . . . Dancer
Esias Drake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dancer
Crew:
Producer: @greg.mov
Sound: Julia Ferguson
Poster Illustration: @ellemalan
@jordanmichaelblake did it. Our very own jblakeboogie, birthday boy, paradise man himself is headed to @sundanceorg with his latest “Paradise Man (ii)”
Infinitely proud of Jordan’s constant ability to evolve, experiment, grow, fight, work, struggle his way towards beautiful work. Thanks for letting me be part of this process all these years.
Writer-Director-Producer-Animator
Jordan Michael Blake @jordanmichaelblake
Producer / EP
James Rodenhouse @rodeo_roadhouse
Co-Producers
Gregory Barnes @greg.mov
Benjamin Buxton @bvb.blank
Ariel Gardner @arielgramner
Fidel Ruiz-Healy @fidel.ruizhealy
Tyler Walker @severe_t_storm
3D Animation
Derek Holguin @derekholguin
A Co-Production of 7th Floor Films & The American Standard Film Co.
Processing film at home leads to a lot of mistakes. Something often goes wrong somewhere between shooting>developing>scanning. Sometimes the mistakes feel more powerful than the ‘correct’ image. Here are a few.
