Contribute to finishing our latest film, HARUMI.
Nestled in the hills of Los Angeles, an array of creative guests visit Harumi Taniguchi, a reclusive Nisei poet, painter and ballerina nearing the end of her 96 years of life. She opens up her Richard Neutra designed home, and shares her story through her poetry and art; reflecting on her fascinating, prolific life. The themes surrounding Harumi's paintings and poems relate to love, war, grief and nature. Having spent 2 years imprisoned in a Japanese Internment Camp in her early 20's, she developed a specific sensitivity towards humanity.
Featured guests (in order of appearance): painter Chaz Guest, legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda, visual artist Josephine Wister Faure, student Menen Basha, sculptor Tom Franco, filmmaker Nick Broomfield, actress Rosemary Hochschild and actress Christa Lang-Fuller. The past years have been sporadically spent filming and editing HARUMI. Presently, the 52 minute rough-cut requires final polishing. Your contributions will be applied to sound mixing, color correction and archival transfers, just to name a few of the many steps it takes to complete post-production. Every donation of $25 or more shall receive a private link to the film upon completion. Thanks for pitching in!
All contributions are greatly appreciated
All contributions are greatly appreciated
A Fuller Life Trailer from Samantha Fuller on Vimeo.
DVD Special Edition including bonus features.
A FULLER LIFE celebrates the independent spirit of a true American maverick whose unique output broke new ground in journalism, filmmaking, storytelling and even service to his country. The story takes us through highlights of Samuel Fuller's unconventional and adventurous life spanning a century of American history, a great man's great yarn, a love song to democracy, and an hymn to independence, originality, and endurance.
Adapted from Sam Fuller's award-winning autobiography, A Third Face, the film consists of 12 segments, each of which features an admirer of Sam's dramatizing their interpretation of Sam's memoirs. Set in the late director's historic office, the cast channels Fuller amid his beloved Royal typewriter, massive collection of books, screenplays, treatments, war memorabilia, and, of course, the ever- present big fat cigar.
A Fuller Life presents for the first time recently discovered 16mm films shot by Fuller, footage he shot on the front lines during World War II as well as location scouts and home movies. Every word spoken in this documentary, whether by a performer or from a clip of one of his films, was written by him, creating a posthumous self-portrait of the subject in his own words.
A Fuller Life DVD USA: $15.00 + $5.00 shipping and handling