I want to get on and make films that I think need to be made."Ĭarlson has Seattle roots at Scarecrow Video (one of the largest video rental stores in the country, possibly the world), which aided and abetted his and Connolly's lunatic dream to catalog not just punk rock movies but every single movie with a punk in it. "I don't have that kind of time to waste.
"I've been in development hell for four years for a fiction film that never got made," says Walker, bullishly. In many ways, cheap technology has energised film-making for a fast-forward generation who have little time for the slowness of traditional script-based film-making. To a degree, this has always been the case, but today, with the coming of affordable high-end digital camera and laptop technology, it is possible to prep, shoot and edit your own film in a fraction of the time – and the budget – it would take to make a traditional film.
That tells me that people are looking for bigger truths about the way we live now, truths they are not getting from Hollywood or the traditional media." Of all the movies playing in America, a Portuguese-language documentary about the lives of people living on a garbage dump in South America had the highest per-screen average across America.
The week it opened, my film was number one at the box office in terms of what they call 'per-screen average attendance'. "There is a frustration with traditional media and a hunger for documentaries that have the stamp of integrity. "I really do think we are living in a golden age of documentary film-making," says Walker, over the phone from Los Angeles, where she is currently on a frantic promotional schedule.
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