Mountain Genius: Down Home
**UPDATE: Happy to announce that Country Music Television (CMT) has engaged us in making a TV series based on this film. We just spent a week shooting a pilot episode from which they will decide if they will buy a full season for 2012. Fingers crossed.
One of the happy accidents of my life was meeting these six gentlemen down in the holla of West Virginia. A conversation became an afternoon became a treatment, a shoot and this 14 minute documentary.
I never knew what , if anything, this small adventure would become. And I didn't care. It made it to festivals and prompted a short-lived bidding war with Discovery and NatGeo channels. But all it ever needed to be, for me, was this.
Shot on Panasonic DVX100.
Role: Director / Producer / Writer