Pleased to announce the film that I’ve been directing in association with Arts + Labor Productions has been accepted into the 2015 South By Southwest Film Festival and will screen sometime around March 17-21. The film will have its premiere screening in Austin on Thursday April 9, and its San Antonio premiere at the San Antonio Book Festival on Saturday April 11.
Link is here http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_FS18152
The story below:
Synopsis
Sir Doug & The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians’ musician and unsung hero of Texas music. A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm & blues dynamo who caused a riot at his San Antonio high school, Sahm emerged as an international rock star leading the Sir Douglas Quintet. He landed in San Francisco just in time for the Summer of Love in 1967. He returned to Texas as the cowboy hippie rocker who built a burgeoning music scene in Austin in before forming the Tex-Mex super group The Texas Tornados. A kinetic, quirky character with a solid sense of place as well as an innate wanderlust, Doug Sahm’s story is the story of Texas music.
Section: Documentary Feature
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2015
Runtime: 76min
Director: Joe Nick Patoski
Executive Producer: Louis Black, Alan Berg
Producer: Dawn Johnson,
Screenwriter: Joe Nick Patoski, Jason Wehling
Cinematographer: Yuta Yamaguchi
Editor: Cody Ground
Production Designer: Caroline Karlen
Sound Designer: Eric Friend
Additional Credits: Executive Producer: Abe Zimmerman, Associate Producer: Kristin Johansen-Berg, Associate Producer: Craig Parks, Associate Producer: Joe Bailey, Jr., Art Director: Jennymarie Jemison
Principal Cast: Doug Sahm, Shawn Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers, Ernie Durawa, George Rains, Alvin Crow, Bill Bentley, Ray Benson, Spot Barnett
Details
Access
Film Badge, Gold Badge, Platinum Badge, Film Festival Wristband
Type
Documentary Feature
Screening Section
24 Beats Per Second
Tags
Convergence
Joe Nick Patoski has authored books on Willie Nelson, Selena, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and written about Texas music for Texas Monthly and Rolling Stone. The one story he has wanted to tell most, though, is this one: the saga of Doug Sahm, the greatest musician to emerge from Texas during the 20th century.
Public Film Contact
Dawn Johnson
Arts+Labor
dawn@arts-and-labor.com
(512)374-0000
Publicity Contact
Dawn Johnson
dawn@arts-and-labor.com