MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that the documentary filmmaking team of JJ Garvine and Tai Parquet’s Film Hawk, the in-depth look at the amazing career of film guru Bob Hawk, will be making its DVD debut on Apr. 11.
It was an accident. Filmmakers Garvine and Parquet had come in contact with indie film consultant — an industry fixture — Bob Hawk when they were trying to navigate the distribution and film festival market for their first film, Keeping the Peace.
As they got to know him — and the wonderful stories he had to tell — it suddenly dawned on the pair (over dinner one night) that perhaps their next project was none other than Bob Hawk himself. After dinner, Hawk introduced the pair to Steven Soderbergh at the screening of his latest film at the time, And Everything is Fine. Wow, he knows everyone. We’re doing this!!
Indeed, Bob Hawk knows everyone. He has a story about everyone. He mentored Kevin Smith when he was just learning the business. He discovered Edward Burns and his indie film, The Brothers McMullen, which he guided to hit status.
The list is long, many of which are interviewed in the film (Rob Epstein, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scott McGehee, David Siegel … and more, many more) and the industry and film stories are marvelous (which they are all very happy to tell). Garvine and Parquet, with their documentary, Film Hawk, hit gold … indie cinema gold. An accidental happenstance and we are all the better for it!
Whether you are a diehard film buff or just curious, MVD’s Apr. 11 DVD rollout of Film Hawk will be time well spent.
Bonus goodies include an introduction by Kevin Smith and a trio of featurettes — “Kevin Smith and Bob Hawk on the Set of Clerks III,” “Kevin Smith and Bob Hawk talk Jersey Girl” and “Kevin Smith and Bob Hawk talk Red State.”
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