SXSW 2008 Film Screenings
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A Necessary Death
Director: Daniel Stamm
Cast: GJ Echternkamp, Matt Tilley, Valerie Hurt, Michael Traynor, Konima Parkinson-Jones Format: HDCam Runtime: 101 minutes More Info
screening in: Emerging Visions
Screening Times2:30 PM, Saturday March 8th - Alamo Ritz 2 2:30 PM, Monday March 10th - Alamo Ritz 2 7:30 PM, Saturday March 15th - Alamo Lamar 2 everything subject to change
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Synopsis:
"Documentary Filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparation to final act." Cut from 142 video tapes, this project sheds light on the tragedy following the infamous internet ad. Director's Bio:
Daniel was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, where as a teenager he was host of a radio show and editor of a youth magazine. He toured with a theater, studied drama and published a play before he went to Belfast, Northern Ireland, as a peace worker. Two years later he returned to Germany to go to film school and study screenwriting at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttembergin Ludwigsburg. He wrote a TV movieabout a moody scarecrow and directed adocumentary on rock musician NickCave. Daniel moved to Los Angelesand enrolled in the American FilmInstitute's directing program. In thefollowing three years he made shortfilms, wrote songs for local singers,became a certified hypnotist.A NECESSARY DEATH is his first feature film. |
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