Rainbow Around the Sun-Full Trailer
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Kevin Ely and Beau Leland’s Rainbow Around the Sun, a feature-length musical built around the songs of star Matthew Alvin Brown, is the rare non-doc to find a place on the 24 Beats Per Minute sidebar at the South By Southwest Film Festival. Kevin and Beau answer the 4 Questions We’re Asking Everyone below; as always, you can check out the trailer for the film above. Rainbow Around the Sun premieres this Saturday at 10pm at the Alamo South Lamar in Austin.
Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out.
Rainbow Around the Sun is a rock musical chronicling the fall and rise of a burned-out young musician with an overactive imagination. Whenever he is faced with an unpleasant reality, he retreats into madcap musical fantasies where he can control the people around him, until the loss of a loved one forces him to face his demons. Basically it’s 8 1/2 meets All That Jazz meets Hedwig, with a dash of The Polka Dot Polka. The music sounds like a collaboration between Harry Nilsson and Ween.
It’s an adaptation of an autobiographical album by our friend, co-writer and star, Matthew Alvin Brown. The three of us have been making shorts together in Oklahoma City for the last couple of years, and this is our first feature.
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