Forum of Independents 2002 / Britney Baby, One More Time / USA, France, Netherlands 2002
A desperate film director who will do anything to get money to make his next film meets a transvestite who won the Britney Spears look-alike contest and decides to do a fake Britney Spears interview with him. A crazy and clever satire on the media and independent filmmaking.
A crazy story about a desperate film director who will do anything to get enough money to make his next film. The film director, Dude Schmitz (played by Mark Borchardt, one of the stars in American Movie by Chris Smith, screened in Karlovy Vary in 2000), gets an opportunity to earn some money when a local TV station hires him to do an interview with Britney Spears, the teenage pop idol. After an indiscreet question he is kicked out by the star’s manager, but he then meets a transvestite (and this is based on a true story) who won the Britney Spears look-alike contest. Schmitz decides to do a fake interview with him instead. The transvestite Robert Stevens agrees, if they promise to introduce him to the real Britney. The film is a clever satire on the media and independent filmmaking.
81 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Ludi Boeken
/ Screenplay Jonathan Bourne
/ Dir. of Photography David Carr- Brown
/ Music Alexander van Bubenheim
/ Editor Sonja Schenk
/ Producer Eugene Rosow, Eric Dussart
/ Production Raphael Films US
/ Cast Angel Benton, Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Shannon Walker Williams, Frank Potter
Ludi Boeken (Amsterdam) studied film in London. He then became a war correspondent for VARA TV and the BBC. He established Belbo Film in England, Holland and France and in 1995 Raphael Films in the USA. His projects include the production of Robert Altman’s Vincent and Theo (1990) and Radu Mihaleanu’s Train de vie (1999). Britney Baby – One More Time is his debut as a feature director.
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