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...interview last month at the Eliot Hotel in Boston, Blitz said that despite his success as a documentary filmmaker straight out of film school going from documentary to narrative fiction was a natural choice after “Spellbound...
...think that even before I did ‘Spellbound,’ I wanted to see myself as a visual storyteller,” he says. “So I ended up doing ‘Spellbound’ first because I wanted to be in control of a project straight out of film school...I didn’t see myself as a documentary filmmaker, just a filmmaker...
...described his most recent experience as one radically different from “Spellbound.” In contrast with the Picturehouse and HBO Films-produced “Rocket Science,” his first movie involved a very small production team with producer Sean Welch and was largely financed using credit cards...
Also unlike “Spellbound,” Blitz says that “Rocket Science” is not a film about winning, or even competition. Instead, he says that his new film “uses the backdrop of debate to give you a window into the life of this kid, but you know in the end, ‘Rocket Science’ isn’t hanging its hat on the competition...
Still flush from the success of his critically acclaimed documentary “Spellbound,” writer and director Jeffrey Blitz turns from the spelling bee to high school debate in the quirky and dark drama-comedy “Rocket Science...