MR. SMITH
MR. SMITH
The challenge of making a short personal documentary about someone you don't know, is significant. Add the ingredients 'rockstar' and 'celebrity' into the mix and the challenge grows. With so much footage to choose from, public and private, the choices in how you tell the story are overwhelming. With 50 interviews and hours of shot and 'found' footage, the real mission for me was to mine the truth about Chad and his extraordinary life without falling into the obvious traps of rock idolatry. Well...there's some of that too!