Survivor meets CINEMA PARADISO in this wonderfully entertaining documentary about a film fanatic's quest to bring Hollywood movies to a remote South Sea island. Well-known on the independent-film circuit as the dedicated producer's rep who once put up the 10 grand needed to get SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT and its director Spike Lee's career off the ground, John Pierson is a film geek's geek. How geeky? Years before penning
Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes, his memoir recounting the years he spent working behind the scenes with such indie luminaries as Lee, Michael Moore and Richard Linklater, Pierson and his wife-to-be, Janet, not only worked at Manhattan's Film F...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins