Country: USA
Year: 2024
Duration: 104'
In the years 1969 through 1974, the true story that chronicles how Marlon Brando (Billy Zane) plucked an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect Bernie Judge (Jon Heder) and convinced him that they could build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a tiny and uninhabitable Tahitian island. It was Brando’s belief that this grand ecological experiment would inspire the world to a better, cleaner and more sustainable future. Seen through his interactions with Judge, local Tahitians and the fame that he both loathes and loves, Brando is an idiosyncratic, surprisingly vulnerable, and layered man, who desires nothing more than to live in paradise and in peace. Will his dream ever be realized?
Biography
film director
Bill Fishman
(Usa) is an independent filmmaker and music video director. After attending some of the top film schools, including N.Y.U., S.F. Art Institute, SUNY Purchase, UCLA and the American Film Institute, he started his carrier in mid 1980’s and then directed and produced award winning classic music videos for artists such as Suicidal Tendencies, Counting Crows, The Ramones, Wilco, Hank Williams Jr., Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jessica Simpson, Bryan Adams, Taylor Swift, Megadeth, The Decemberists, Michael Bublé, The Backstreet Boys, Carlos Santana, Lenny Kravitz, The White Stripes, Rob Zombie, and many others. He also produced many films including Posse, Underdogs, Odd Man Rush, Forgivenes and others! His videos and films have won numerous awards such as 2003 MTV V.M.A.’s Viewer’s Choice Award and multiple CMA Best Video awards. He also directed features (Tapeheads, 1988, and My Dinner with Jimi, 2003) and documentaries and showed his work in some of most prestigious film festivals the world over including Sundance and London.
FILMOGRAFIA
Tapeheads (1988), Car 54, Where Are You? (Una volante tutta matta, 1994), Desperate But Not Serious (Troppo pazze... poco serie, 1999), My Dinner with Jimi (Ho incontrato Jimi Hendrix, 2003), Hollywood Signs (doc, 2021), Waltzing with Brando (2024).
Declaration
film director
“As a director and writer of Waltzing with Brando it was an honor and a pleasure to photograph the movie where the story actually took place, in French Polynesia, and work with the wonderful people there in Tahiti, Moorea and Tetiaroa where the actual events occurred. The story couldn’t be more relevant in my mind as it deals with one man’s prescient desire to bring awareness to and reverse the devastating effects of Global Climate change some 55 years ago. I believe the film also features a career best performance by Billy Zane as Marlon Brando who’s likeness and nuance of his physicality makes one soon forget they are not watching an actual Marlon Brando film! The film is truly a gift to cineastes throughout the world as well as to general audiences who will be both amused and amazed at this unique tribute to perhaps the greatest actor, activist, and enigma in cinema history.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Bill Fishman. STORY: Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti by Bernard Judge. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Garrett O’Brien. EDITING: Michael Yanovich. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Michael Paul Clausen. COSTUMES: Charlie Altuna, Erica Howard. MUSIC: Matei Bratescot. CAST: Billy Zane, Jon Heder, Richard Dreyfuss, Tia Carrere, Camille Razat, Alaina Huffman, Sophia Bui, Rob Corddry, James Jagger, Sofia Masson, Tanna Frederick. PRODUCTION: Doug Dearth, Bill Fishman, Brett Kerr, Billy Zane for Filmin’Tahiti.
CONTACT: Fallout Entertainment.
