In 2022 I produced a film, "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero", based on a poem I wrote of the same name, some years previous. It seems to be a well-received endeavor. To date I've received over 30 international film festival awards.
[9/12/23 update: Pvt. Ravel's Bolero now has 43 international awards!]
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It's a serious film. But if you're a classical music, or if you're a history buff, especially of WWI, France, trench warfare, Maurice Ravel, Bolero, War...or a variety of other things...do check it out! I didn't get all these awards because it's not worth checking out. This isn't the kind of film that gets a standing ovation. It's about serious issues. But done in a way that is innovative and affecting.
Documentary, Biography, War, Music, Independent, V (Violence), D (Suggestive Dialogue), 14-Jul-2023
The international multi-award winning, antiwar "filmic poem" and historical documentary, "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero". Experience WWI as told through music (played by Ravel), actual documentary footage and a poem that proposes a question:
"What if the composer of Ravel's Bolero, Joseph Maurice Ravel, had not simply been a truck driver in WWI, but had actually been the trenches?" What if he had drawn the French and German enemies lining both sides of their deadly "no man's land", to enter the deadly, horrific space between the soldier's trenches, and played his new song? A ghostly meeting of soldier musicians and the dead...all among the horrors of their shared zone of death which laid horrifically between them.
Forty-Two International Awards, including:
BEST WAR SHORT - Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills.
BEST DIRECTOR EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM, Indiefest Film Awards
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY - New Orleans Film Festival.
BEST HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL FILM - RunDoc Film Talent Award, Hong Kong.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM - World Film Carnival, Singapore.
DOCUMENTARY-BEST FILM - Grand Jury Prize Bronze Award - Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival.
EXCEPTIONAL MERIT - Docs Without Borders Film Festival.
And over many more...
Cast
Brel Martínez "Adelaide", Ravel's Truck
Jey Martin, Narrator
Joseph Maurice Ravel Pianist/Conductor
Crew
JZ Murdock, Director
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