It could’ve been better.” And once we hooked up we knew we was on the same page. And I liked it but I wasn’t satisfied with it and I told him like, “It could’ve been more. Snow: I had seen some of his work before, but I didn’t even know it was his work, you know? Then he told me he had already done shit like Black on Black. How did Damon prove himself to be worthy of being the guy who could make your story into a film?

I stopped the movie and immediately sent Nick an e-mail saying “This movie is awesome.” And then I actually invited friends of mine in the neighborhood to come over and watch it with me because it was clear that this was unlike anything I had ever seen before. We wanted to put you right in the middle of the action.įidell: Yeah, it worked. From the start we just wanted to make it look real, real, real. Was that how you guys always figured you were going to go into your world? įidell: Within the first five minutes, I was blown away. Filmmaker asked one of those viewers, 2012 “25 New Faces” alum Hannah Fidell, to interview both Snow on Tha Bluff‘s co-writer/director Russell (himself a “25 New Face” from 2011) and co-writer/star Curtis Snow about the film, its making, and the reason it has received such a strong response from viewers. Since becoming available through such platforms as iTunes and Netflix Watch Instantly, Snow on Tha Bluff has found a new and highly engaged audience which has discovered and been electrified by the film. Writing about it then, Filmmaker’s own Brandon Harris described the film as “An incredible combination of found footage, no-budget narrative ingenuity and pulled-from-the-streets doc immediacy, discovers in its incredibly charismatic and troubled protagonist, Curtis Snow, an American life many of us would probably rather forget about.”

In Directing, Directors, Filmmaking, InterviewsĢ5 New Faces, Curtis Snow, Damon Russell, Snow on tha BluffĪfter debuting at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2011, Damon Russell’s Snow on Tha Bluff had a small theatrical release earlier this year.

Snow on the bluff 2011