Brooklyn filmmakers hit the road to document America’s indie musicians
Many newly minted college graduates do some traveling before they dive into the workforce, but Brooklyn-based filmmaker Austen Deery, one half of the team behind Brooklyn’s sadrday production studios, used his post-grad phase to work on a project he hopes will launch his career.
After finishing up a degree in computer science at Brown University, Deery and collaborator Sam Reynolds embarked on a four-month, cross-country road trip, visiting 15 cities where they met, interviewed and filmed 189 independent musicians. Now Deery and Reynolds are releasing the footage for free in a series of short documentaries.
Deery says that he “kind of got the bug” for filmmaking while profiling art club members as an undergrad.
“I felt like I wanted to pursue it more and I ended up having a few friends who were musicians and were struggling. I offered my services and it started rolling from there,” he said.