IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
CINEMA OF THE WORLD<br />
2007, 35 mm, Colour, 95 mins, English<br />
USA<br />
Honeydripper<br />
Acclaimed writer/director John Sayles brings the birth <strong>of</strong> rock 'n' roll to life with an<br />
electrifying effect in Honeydripper. Tyrone Purvis is a bar owner down on his luck. To<br />
drum-up business, he enlists the services <strong>of</strong> the legendary Guitar Sam. What he gets,<br />
instead, will forever change his Saturday nights, but threatens to raise demons from the<br />
past that could destroy his future.<br />
Director<br />
John Sayles<br />
Screenplay<br />
John Sayles<br />
Cinematography<br />
Dick Pope<br />
Editor<br />
John Sayles<br />
Music<br />
Mason Daring<br />
Cast<br />
Danny Glover (Tyrone Purvis), Lisa Gay Hamilton (Delilah),<br />
Yaya DaCosta (China Doll),<br />
Charles S. Dutton (Maceo), Vondie Curtis Hall (Slick)<br />
Production<br />
Maggie Renzi<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s & Awards<br />
<strong>2008</strong>: San Sebastian (Best Screenplay); 2007: Toronto,<br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, London, St Louis, San Joaquin<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
(<strong>Film</strong> Courtesy NDTV Lumiere)<br />
John Sayles is an American writer and director. His career began as a novelist and short<br />
story writer. His early screenwriting credits include Piranha (1978), Battle Beyond The<br />
Stars (1980), Alligator (1980) and The Howling (1981). With the money he earned<br />
writing 'creature features', he financed his first feature as writer/director/editor, The<br />
Return Of The Secaucus Seven (1980), a bittersweet look at a reunion <strong>of</strong> 1960s political<br />
activists. His first studio movie, Baby It's You, a mid -1960's coming <strong>of</strong> age drama, was<br />
released in 1983. Next was the very low-budget The Brother From Another Planet<br />
(1984), an African-American sci-fi allegory starring Joe Morton as a black extraterrestrial<br />
who crashes to earth in Harlem.<br />
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