Jefffery Goodman (a friend of my little brother's from high school) takes the AFI Dallas Film Festival by storm. The buzz on this film is tremendous. I'm going to the screening on April 4th thanks to Jeffery's largesse.
Aside from being a bad-ass filmmaker, what I love is Jeffery's DYI ethos.
Dude ended up raising all the money for Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He believed it would take this level of freedom to make a movie that he felt was slightly different than most things currently being made.
"With Lullaby, I wanted to do certain things that weren't necessarily in fashion. I wanted to make a slow, quiet genre piece that was sincere (rather than ironic) and very human. And, in many ways, I wanted to make it in the naturalistic style that I associated with some of my favorite American films from the seventies." Check out his film's website by clicking here.
