Films about Grammy Award winner Jon Batiste, Andy Kaufman and designer John Galliano are part of this year’s Telluride Film Festival documentary feature lineup.In all, 22 feature and four short doc…
. “I’m excited for our project to honor that. This is the film I’ve wanted to make my entire life.”
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s “Musica!” will also be making its world premiere at Telluride in the festival’s backlot section, which features 11 behind-the-scenes docus about artists, musicians, and filmmakers. “Musica!” is about an organization called Horns to Havana that sends artisans from the U.S. to Cuba yearly to repair instruments and teach young Cubans the skills they need to keep their instruments in good condition.
“I’ve followed David’s work and the world that they have built in his shop in New York City for many decades,” Epstein says. “I’ve always been intrigued about the possibility of doing something about that very rarefied world of instrument making and that is what led us to follow them to Cuba.” “Once we had gone once or twice, we realized that we were making this film,” says Friedman. “We were fundraising as we went along. It was never fully financed so we were building the bridge as we were crossing it.”
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