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[Editors Note: indieWIRE is publishing two interviews daily with Sundance ’07 competition filmmakers through the end of the festival later this month. Directors with films screening in the four competition section were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview, and each was sent the same set of questions.]
Filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough brings his latest work to the Sundance Film Festival this year, entitled “Weapons.” The film follows a group of teenagers who become involved in a series of seemingly random killings over the course of a weekend. “A haunted hip-hop soundtrack drenches this insightful study of teenage character and value systems in a world where everyone seems to have a gun,” writes Sundance, “but the most dangerous weapon is the one unleashed by tender things broken inside innocent hearts.” Adam Bhala Lough other recent work includes Bomb the System, Farmhouse, and music videos for Mf Doom and Joe Strummer.
Please introduce yourself. What are some of your former jobs? Where did you grow up, and where do you live now?
27 right now, 24 when I wrote “Weapons.” I’ve had some interesting former jobs. I worked at Blockbuster Video, bagged groceries at Giant Food, was a clerk at...
Filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough brings his latest work to the Sundance Film Festival this year, entitled “Weapons.” The film follows a group of teenagers who become involved in a series of seemingly random killings over the course of a weekend. “A haunted hip-hop soundtrack drenches this insightful study of teenage character and value systems in a world where everyone seems to have a gun,” writes Sundance, “but the most dangerous weapon is the one unleashed by tender things broken inside innocent hearts.” Adam Bhala Lough other recent work includes Bomb the System, Farmhouse, and music videos for Mf Doom and Joe Strummer.
Please introduce yourself. What are some of your former jobs? Where did you grow up, and where do you live now?
27 right now, 24 when I wrote “Weapons.” I’ve had some interesting former jobs. I worked at Blockbuster Video, bagged groceries at Giant Food, was a clerk at...
- 1/27/2007
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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