Tag Line: With a beautiful vengeance!
Log Line: Accordions have returned, not only with amusement, but with a beautiful, eloquent, haunting, and downright exciting vengeance!
The film will be completed very soon with all of the finishing touches that a professional sound mix and color correction can provide. Once completed, I will be submitting it to film festivals, some of which require premiere status.Only once the film has been accepted for its first exhibition will I be able to sell the DVDs and VODs from the film’s website. In the meantime, I am suggesting that as many people as possible visit the website and join the mailing list.
The more that I can demonstrate to prospective distributors that interest in the film does exist, the more likely it will be that I can secure formal distribution. (Doing this implies no obligation on your part, but
may help the film out in the world).
You can also provide meaningful support by “liking” the film on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheAWordDocumentary
You may also request an invoice for a Pre-Release DVD Copy by writing to me at: rcantow@originaldigital.net. Purchases made in this way will continue to serve the fund-raising needs of the project.Additional options for contributions and perks are still active on the website: www.accordionsrising.com
Short Synopsis:
Accordions Rising Is a documentary feature film (1:20) about the resurgence of interest in accordion music over the last 30-40 years.
Although many continue to see the accordion as the stodgy instrument of a bygone era – and accordion jokes abound – this film sets the record straight.
The film is the story of the variety, diversity and extraordinary virtuosity of the instrument and the music that it can make. Touching on its history but focusing on the present, the film offers entertaining and conversational style interviews, anecdotal commentary and both formal and informal music performance examples from celebrated accordionists, composers and bands working and performing in America today.
The film provides quite a tapestry of fascinating individuals, their attitudes, deep passions, and above of all else, profound dedication to the instrument. We learn that though still a rebellious lot, these music makers have an audience, in fact, in some of the hippest hide-a-ways and most sought after mainstream venues.
The film makes clear that the so-called “accordion world” is actually a curious continuum that includes everything from whacky and kitsch to sophisticated, serious, meditative and post modern.
