I hadn’t heard about this film until I read about it over at ioncinema, it looks interesting enough and the director Craig Zobel was a second unit on David Gordon Greens ‘Snow Angels’, and Green susbsequently produced his film; ‘The Great World of Sound’. The film seems to strike me in the ‘humourous not funny’ vein, but seems to have a dash of ‘The Grifters’ thrown in:

Great World of Sound follows Martin(Pat Healy), as he applies for a job at a company training prospective music producers. During training, he teams up with another new employee, Clarence(Kene Holliday), a middle-aged man trying to change his career path. As they travel from town to town, the two “Record Producers” audition new talent found by ads placed in local newspapers by their employers, The Great World of Sound Recording Company. They’re seeking new talent for their record label, giving artists a chance to let their music be heard… for a small fee. It’s going great at first, but soon Martin and Clarence begin to question whether the company is as virtuous as it seemed to be in its’ promise to deliver people their dreams.

I can’t quite tell if some of the people auditioning are real or not. It doesn’t mention anything on the films website about it using documentary style footage, but then it could have just been real acts in improvised situations with the actors. Who knows. It looks interesting though.

Check out the films official website here

I highly doubt it’ll get a theatrical release over here in the UK though so i’ll have to wait for a R1 dvd, meanwhile i’m just hoping that ‘Snow Angels’ will play at the London Film Festival this year.