LUNATIC DREAMERS: THE FELICE BROTHERS (WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING + PERFORMANCE)

Q&A with Director Tiller Russell, The Felice Brothers members Ian Felice and James Felice, Executive Producers Gabriela Hearst and Brandy Schultz

About the Film:

Rooted in the Catskills and alive with the band’s ragged, achingly beautiful songs, Director Tiller Russell’s Lunatic Dreamers follows local legends the Felice Brothers as they write and record their first album for Sony. After years of fierce independence, brothers Ian and James are stepping into a bigger world without leaving their own behind. Russell stays close to the songs taking shape and the complicated, enduring bond between the people making them.

Full performances of songs like “Rockefeller” and “Jazz on the Autobahn” give the music room to breathe, while a rousing Newport Folk Festival set finds the band sharing the stage with Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers, Brandon Flowers, Nathaniel Rateliff, Deer Tick and others. Intimate and unguarded, Lunatic Dreamers captures your favorite band’s favorite band in the sirenic moment before everything changes. – Adam Schartoff

About the Filmmaker:

Tiller Russell is the acclaimed director of the back-to-back number #1 Netflix hits Waco: American Apocalypse and Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, which are among the highest rated nonfiction series in history. Tiller also wrote and directed Silk Road for Lionsgate. His prior work includes the critically acclaimed series The Last Narc for Amazon and the cult classic Operation Odessa, which holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Prior to this, Tiller directed The Seven Five, the iconic doc about police corruption in New York’s 75th precinct in the 1990s.