![]() ![]() He is the dreamer and progenitor of Rock Camp. Barnum and a great entertainment or military leader. How did you get involved with it?ĭoug Blush: All things involved with Rock Camp all go back to Mr. Rock Cellar: You brought your documentary expertise to Rock Camp. Rock Camp, though, was something special. ![]() I co-edited Wordplay, about crossword puzzle solvers, one of our first Sundance hits. It all happened in real time as we became embroiled in the Russian scandals with the Olympics doping. It went from being a sports-action movie to being much more intense. Icarus, I was a consulting editor and associate producer, was a very different kind of film. We had such a great time - the women in the film, it’s a great music and rock history film. That was one of those magical experiences - you don’t know what’s happening until it happens to you. My co-editors and I won the ACE Award - the American Cinema Editors Award. We toured that film for a year, and it was a huge hit at Sundance and other film festivals, and we ended up taking it all the way to the Oscars. Morgan just really knows his music and American culture - that film became magical. I was an editor on it with a great team that put that together. They’re voices you’ve heard, if you’re a Rolling Stones or Sting fan. Gil’s passion was to finally pay tribute to these women who brought the sound of the sixties and seventies to backing vocals of all those great songs we all know … Gil brought the idea to Morgan Neville, who ran with it and made a wonderful expose about some of the great voices, like Darlene Love, Merry Clayton and Lisa Fischer. And we’ve been doing documentaries since 2000.Īlong the way I’ve been honored to work with some incredible, wonderful people, like Morgan Neville, who did the iconic 20 Feet from Stardom … Its genesis is from Gil Friesen, our wonderful producer, who’s also a music legend, known as the ampersand in A&M Records. As we got into the new millennium my wife and I founded MadPix Films ( Film Production | Documentaries | Consulting | Madpix Films). So I always had an interest in documentaries. But I always wanted something more, for films to really matter, to be the real deal. What are some of your top credits, in what capacity did you work on those productions, and what are some of the top awards you’ve won?ĭoug Blush: Back in the nineties I was doing those behind-the-scenes things you’d see for films like Titanic, Dante’s Peak and Independence Day. ![]() Rock Cellar: You’re a veteran on the documentary scene. In this upbeat interview, Doug Blush spoke from his Los Angeles office about his film background, Rock Camp and more. But in this new rock doc Blush co-created, he brings his storytelling skills to structure a joyous portrait of happy campers who, thanks to Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, are able to live out their dreams and, as the Rolling Stones expressed it, “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!” In some cases, some are even empowered to “Break on Through to the Other Side,” as Jim Morrison sang. Others overcome disabilities, parents bonding with their children thanks to the musical fantasy camp outing that is the brainchild of entrepreneurial enthusiast David Fishof.Ī seasoned documentarian, the award-winning Blush has worked with some of the top talents in nonfiction filmmaking, such as on Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s hard-hitting exposes, including their 2012 Oscar-nominated The Invisible War. The rock doc intercuts all of this star-studded celluloid and video with compelling, uplifting personal stories of campers who during the experience momentarily leave behind their boring, bourgeois, corporate existences to, as Lou Reed put it, “Take a walk on the wild side” at Rock Camp. 15 ( click here), mixes archival footage from the 69 Rock Camps held since 1997, including glimpses of “camp counselors” Bill Wyman, Brian Wilson, Gene Simmons, Jeff Beck, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Ringo, Joe Walsh, Leslie West, Meat Loaf, Mike Love, Nancy Wilson, Alice Cooper, Felix Cavaliere, Eric Clapton, and more, with original footage of rock icons like Roger Daltrey and Paul Stanley, as well. Their 87-minute documentary, which will be made available via digital cinemas on Jan. Doug Blush and co-director/co-writer Renee Barron’s new film Rock Camp captures the joy and fun of this unique, revved-up camping experience. So you want to be a rock star? Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp - where ordinary people rub shoulders with and learn from legendary performers and working musicians - may be just the ticket. ![]()
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