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CREATE OR DIE Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Indie Filmmaking Documentary

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00:00 [film reel]

00:02 - Final set.

00:03 And action!

00:05 [laughs]

00:07 I make movies because I can't not.

00:09 I make movies because if I didn't,

00:11 what would I be?

00:13 A fraction of myself.

00:14 Hey, I'm David Axe.

00:15 I wrote and directed this thing you're about to see

00:17 called "Acorn."

00:18 Mostly, it's about making a movie

00:21 and the kinds of people who make movies,

00:24 why they do it,

00:25 and whether they care, whether they fail.

00:27 - "Acorn" is about a young female filmmaker.

00:30 She, unfortunately, gets a cancer diagnosis,

00:33 and she decides that she's gonna use those six months

00:37 and make one last movie.

00:39 - Because we are drunken fools,

00:41 I just said, thought, figured,

00:43 "Why not write 'Die Standing Up 2'?

00:46 How hard could it be?

00:47 We'll just shoot 'em both."

00:49 So we did.

00:51 In three weeks, we made two movies.

00:53 Oh, God.

00:54 [laughs]

00:55 [upbeat music]

00:59 - Rumination, here it comes.

01:02 - Oh, my God.

01:03 A lot of people have an idealized version

01:06 of what making a movie is.

01:08 - I thought I had access to a new Old West set.

01:12 - By the time we got back to starting production,

01:15 Old Warrenton had been shut down,

01:17 and a guy got shot.

01:19 David was in a great dilemma.

01:21 - It was insane.

01:22 I come emerging out of our hair and makeup tent

01:25 with a sweaty wad of penciled-in script pages.

01:29 - I just got so in my head.

01:31 The horse blinders that I've had on

01:33 just completely went away.

01:35 I called my family that night, and I was like,

01:37 "I've spent all this time doing this,

01:39 and I'm gonna go home and quit

01:41 and just leave this all behind."

01:43 That was a really hard thing for me to think about,

01:45 because it's all I've ever really wanted to do--

01:48 perform and create.

01:50 - Most micro-budget indie productions fail.

01:53 They collapse. People quit.

01:55 I will always finish my movies, even if they're terrible.

01:58 - Nobody goes into independent filmmaking

02:00 trying to be rich.

02:02 - When you create something

02:04 for the sheer joy of creating,

02:08 that's art.

02:09 - It makes life worth living,

02:11 having a creative outlet.

02:12 - I am absurdly, ludicrously dedicated

02:16 to the bad idea of starting nowhere

02:19 and making a good movie.

02:21 [film projector clicks]

02:23 [soft music]

02:26 (gentle music)

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