Q&A with director Grant Gee, moderated by Charlotte Bogard Macleod from Screen Players Club.
Film Lovers - we are thrilled to announce our next Screen Players Club when Award winning director Grant Gee, will be joining us for a special preview screening of his film Everybody Digs Bill Evans. After the screening, Grant, who won a prestigious Silver Bear director’s award at the Berlinale Film Festival, will be in conversation with Charlotte Bogard Macleod, sharing never-before-told stories of bringing Everybody Digs Bill Evans to the big screen.
Everybody Digs Bill Evans unfolds over a hot, languid New York Summer when legendary jazz pianist loses his musical soulmate, and thus his ability to play music. Shot in smoky monochome, with occasional pops of 1970’s colour, the film thoroughly inhabits the tumultuous creative torment of this great American musician. Andres Danielsen Lie gives an astonishingly brilliant performances as a man consumed by grief, immersing us completely in his emotional devastation. Evans emerges as a troubled musical genius struggling to understand that sometimes an intermission is part of the music. We can't wait for you to see it.