He’s been laughed at, cussed, and shot at, but Larry Gibson refuses to abandon his home. Gibson has lived atop Kayford Mountain in West Virginia for decades, fighting to save his family’s land from one of the biggest Mountain Top Removal mines in Appalachia. ”Mountain Man” is a 9 1/2 minute short documentary. It features interviews with West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman, political strategist Mudcat Saunders, Jesuit Wheeling’s Dr. Ben Stout, retired coal miner Chuck Nelson, Coal River Mountain Watch’s Rory McIlmoil and UK’s Dr. Ron Eller, among other interviews.
“Toxic Soup” was named an official selection of the 2010 Twin Cities Film Festival, the Louisville International Festival of Film, the American Conservation Film Festival and the West Virginia Filmmakers Festival.
Including the KahBang Film Festival, the New Jersey Film Festival and the Atlanta Film Festival, that brings our total number of festival selections to seven to date.
Artist Rudy Martinez with director Rory Owen Delaney
In other news, we are pushing ahead with our new documentary about LA’s world famous Graff Lab. The documentary follows the setbacks and successes of the Pico Union Housing Corporation’s efforts to fight the gang violence and unemployment problems of this historic neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles.
About five years ago, Ricky Guerrero had an idea to start a public art space in the parking yard of the PUHC where local kids could safely and legally practice their graffiti art. Since then, Ricky’s dream have exploded with graffiti artists coming from as far away as Italy and Australia to leave their mark in the yard.
The summer’s highlights include artist Rudy “Rude” Martinez’s unveiling of one of the largest Michael Jackson murals in the world on August 28th as well as a Michael Jackson dance tribute performance by Thrill the World LA.
I would also like to take the chance to publicly express my condolences over the tragic death of Dr. Frank Ryan, who was kind enough to grant me a lengthy interview about his charitable work for the Graff Lab as well as for his own foundation, the Bony Pony Ranch just three weeks before his passing.
The Graff Lab's MJ Mural the day before its unveiling to the world
Go inside LA’s world famous Graff Lab, explore the radioactive oil fields in eastern Kentucky and beyond. Documentaries are our specialty, but we also dig music videos, fashion shows and everything in between. From super 8 film to HD video we do it all at Man Bites Dog Films.
Last week I filmed the Carlie & Doni musical comedy show live at the Edye Theater in Santa Monica, California. Afterwards we interviewed Lily Tomlin. Enjoy the excerpts.
Go inside LA’s world famous Graff Lab, explore the radioactive oil fields in eastern Kentucky and beyond. Documentaries are our specialty, but we also dig music videos, fashion shows and everything in between. From super 8 film to HD video we do it all at Man Bites Dog Films.
Here is the latest music video for 3nvious entitled “Go Hard.” The hardest / best part of making this music video was scouring Los Angeles for the best graffiti spots. And I think we found some of them… Directed by Rory Owen Delaney… Shot by Rory Owen Delaney & Kenny Lorenzana… Edited by Rory Owen Delaney… Special thanks to Kenny Lorenzana, Tony Toledo & Frank Montero for helping out.
Here is a sample of the video that I shot for fashion designer Ximena Valero featuring her transformable clothing line. Features music by Aaron Howard @ myspace.com/dropieum.
From super 8mm to 1080p HD we’ve traveled from the hills of eastern Kentucky to New York City and beyond to bring you the best content. Features music by Aaron Howard @ myspace.com/dropieum.
I finally uploaded “Rosy” the short film I wrote with Director Christina Voros (one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 20 new faces in independent film) a couple years ago in New York City. “Rosy” was an official selection of the 2008 Florida Film Festival and the 2008 Nantucket Film Festival, among others.
