Bandwagon (film)

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Bandwagon
Directed by	John Schultz
Produced by	Alyson Poole John Schultz
Written by	John Schultz
Starring	Lee Frederick Holmes Kevin Corrigan Steve Parlavecchio Matthew Hennessey Doug MacMillan
Music by	Greg Kendall
Cinematography	Shawn Maurer
Editing by	John Pace
Distributed by	Lakeshore Entertainment
Release date(s)	January 1996 (Sundance Film Festival) September 12, 1997
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$22,189
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Bandwagon is a 1996 film by writer/director John Schultz, starring Lee Holmes and Kevin Corrigan.

[edit] Production

Writer/director John Schultz used to drum for independent band The Connells but left them early on to start a filmmaking career.^[1] Bandwagon was not only the first feature film for Schultz but for a lot of the crew members as well. Schultz said, "On the shoot, we didn't really realize what we were doing right and what we were doing wrong and a lot of the problems we found in the editing room."^[1] The film was made in 1993 in Schultz's hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina and took six weeks to complete.

Greg Kendall is a singer/guitarist who was hired to write the songs for the band in the film. He was introduced to Schultz by mutual friend Doug MacMillan who plays Linus Tate in the movie.^[2] He said, "They were to have good songs, but they had to be believable. They couldn't be too stupid and they couldn't be too ornate."^[2] Schultz supplied the titles to the songs and Kendall wrote and sang most of them.^[2] They were recorded at Fort Apache Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Eight of his songs appear in the film and he also composed the score. Kendall likes that "there's nothing MTV about it [the film]. It's naive, some would say to a fault. I would say it's a strength."^[2]

[edit] Reaction

The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996. It was subsequently picked up by Lakeshore Entertainment.

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