UPCOMING SCREENING:
Circle Cinema
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Friday, Dec. 19th
7:45 & 9:30PM
12 South Lewis Avenue (1st and Lewis)
Tulsa OK 74104
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"Rainbow Around the Sun" is a rock musical based on the album of the same name by singer-actor Matthew Alvin Brown. In the vein of classic musicals like "Tommy," "Pink Floyd: The Wall," and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "Rainbow" tells its story almost entirely through songs and imagery.
Brown stars as Zachary Blasto, a hard-drinking but talented songwriter and performer who creates vivid musical fantasies to avoid dealing with the downward spiral of his personal life. When confronted with the loss of someone he loves, Zach must choose whether to face his demons or surrender to the madness of his imaginary world.
Balancing dramatic interludes with vaudevillian dance numbers and fully animated rock performances, "Rainbow Around the Sun" is an unconventional narrative that plays more like a favorite album than a typical movie. Scenes are sequenced like songs on a record, seamlessly moving from dramatic moments to honky-tonk performances and fully animated Busby Berkely-style hallucinations.
It's a film that wears its heart on its sleeve, created by filmmakers who believe that music can be a healing force in life, if you let it.
"Rainbow Around the Sun" world premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2008.
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TEAM AWESOME presents in association with PANTHER OF TRUST MUSIC
"RAINBOW AROUND THE SUN"
MATTHEW ALVIN BROWN JAMIE BUXTON DOUG VAN LIEW
based on the album "Rainbow Around the Sun" by MATTHEW ALVIN BROWN
performed by THE FELLOWSHIP STUDENTS additional scoring by NATHAN SILER
director of photography ALAN NOVEY editor BEAU J. LELAND production design REBECCA McCAULEY
produced by KIM HAYWOOD screenplay by KEVIN ELY directed by KEVIN ELY and BEAU J. LELAND
