Filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw
IndieHouse SF Podcast
Welcome to Episode 8 of the IndieHouse SF Podcast. Join us each episode as we get to know the SF film community, one filmmaker at a time.
First Thing
Help Frazer finish his latest film, The Deep Sky. The Kickstarter campaign ends soon!
Donate to the Kickstarter campaign for The Deep Sky, a film about how we construct meaning in our lives through our relationships to others and to difference, told through the lens of an American couple who open their relationship to a German woman.
IndieHouse SF Interview: Frazer Bradshaw
Frazer Bradshaw has been writing, directing and editing films for over two decades. He makes films with a philosophical bent about the human condition, told through lenses of race, class and sexuality.
His first feature, Everything Strange And New, a portrait of the implications of the American Dream for a working class man, premiered at Sundance in 2009. Everything Strange And New, won the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF), the CineVision Award in Munich, and was nominated for two Gotham Awards and an Independent Spirit Award.
Top 5 Things
- his current movie – The Deep Sky
- his daughter, Hattie (she recently turned 11, and was one of the stars of the Focus Features release, “Babies” in 2010)
- his wife
- riding his BMX bike at the skatepark
- his parents and brother
Top 5 Films
- The Holy Mountain
- Movies by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Movies by Ingmar Bergman
- Early films (pre 2000) by Zhang Yimou
- Movies at Film Festivals that will never make it to American theaters
- wikipedia.org’s List of film festivals
- moviemaker.com’s 50 film festivals worth the entry fee (2017)
Useful links
- Fund The Deep Sky Kickstarter Campaign
- The Deep Sky website: thedeepskyfilm.com
- Frazer’s to IMDB profile
- Frazer’s website: frazerbradshaw.com