Filmmaker Andy Blubaugh and Scaredycat
Andy Blubaugh is a young filmmaker from Portland, Oregon whose 15-minute short film, Scaredycat, will air alongside Oscar-winner Freida Lee Mock's Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner this week on PBS. An experimental documentary about the role fear plays in our lives, Scaredycat takes as a point of departure the beating of Andy at the hands of a gang of young men who called themselves "The Portland Riders."
We interviewed Andy about the making of Scaredycat, and he told us about his obsessions and compulsions with fear, and the deeper themes of the film.
You can watch a full, streaming version of Scaredycat from now until March 10th, 2008 as part of the P.O.V. Online Short Film Festival.
We also noticed that Andy has an excellent website for his work, and we thought we'd also take this opportunity to ask him some questions about how he approaches promoting his work online. As the Web because an indispensable tool for film promotion and distribution, what should filmmakers be thinking about as they create a website for their work?
You have a very extensive website for your documentary work. The site includes links to iTunes (for downloading Scaredycat), a blog and much more. How important do you think having a website is for today's mediamakers?
Andy Blubaugh: The Internet is a crucial tool for independent filmmakers. I use my website to promote my work to people who have never seen my films before, to provide background information to people who might want to cover me in their newspaper or blog, and to connect with people who want to continue the conversation I am trying to spark in my filmmaking.
Read more of Andy's interview after the jump.
