Cool Quote

Cool Quote
Came across this article today. I wish with a comment like this, Tom Petty & management could let the guy use Tom's music in his documentary or come up with a discounted rate. I mean, c'mon, it's not like it's going to be seen in your local movie theatre!

The idea of having film students document their own subculture was a method Zaritsky first used when making Ski Bums, a hilariously candid documentary about Whistler's working class, produced for the National Film Board.

"While I pride myself on being a good interviewer and getting good material, it's all done during the day in front of a professional crew, in a very artificial environment," Zaritsky explains. "When I sent ski bums out to cover other ski bums at a party with a small camera, the footage was much more real than anything I could have achieved by going in with a professional crew and huge lights and sound system."

His experimental methods didn't make this project any easier. "It was like running a three-ring circus," Zaritsky says. "We had so much footage we had to start editing very early, even before we finished shooting."

Fortunately, the soundtrack -- which includes such great Canadian indie bands as Winnipeg's Weakerthans and Vancouver's Spygirl -- proved much easier than any he had previously worked on. "For years and years, I've been cutting to guide tracks that would include the Smashing Pumpkins and Tom Petty or whatever. And then at the end of the game, you can never afford to include Tom Petty so you've got to go out and replace it all -- but it never looks as good without Tom Petty."