The Filmmaker
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From filmmaker Morgan Neville:
Art is such a highly subjective world, and taste-making and criticism are paramount. I feel as though we encountered some of the same bias that the artists themselves did, namely that L.A. is a wasteland and if it didn’t happen in N.Y., it’s not important.
Moreover, I feel like this film is contributing to a new dialogue about L.A. and art in this period. Already we have seen a number of important museum shows emerge about this school of artists. I think this film will only help the reassessment.
His three favorite films:
Only three? Duck Soup, All the President’s Men, L.A. Confidential
His advice for aspiring filmmakers:
Make the film the subject suggests. Be prepared to throw out your preconceived ideas and follow the story.
His most inspirational food for making independent film:
Is coffee food?
Bio
Morgan Neville
Director/Writer/Producer
Morgan Neville is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who specializes in history and cultural subjects. Through a series of films on important music subjects (including The Brill Building, Sam Phillips and Sun Records, Nat King Cole, Brian Wilson, Leiber & Stoller, The Highwaymen and Burt Bacharach), Neville has documented stories of songwriters and producers who helped shape 20th-century music, including the Grammy-nominated Muddy Waters Can't Be Satisfied and the Emmy-winning Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues, both of which aired on PBS’s American Masters series as well as Channel 4/UK and the BBC’s Arena series. Neville’s first theatrical documentary was the award-winning feature Shotgun Freeway: Drives Thru Lost L.A., an examination of the meaning of history in the City of Angels. More recently, Neville has recently directed specials for A&E such as Honky Tonk Angels: Women in Country Music and Hollywood Home Movies, a history of the movie business using found footage. He directed the multiple award-winning Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan and is directing Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, both for PBS.
Neville has also produced various projects for cultural institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. His company, Tremolo Productions, is based in Los Angeles.
