Rachel Leah JONES
When an American white-boy with Alabama roots becomes a Spanish Flamenco guitarist in Andalucian boots, what happens along the way and behind the scenes? Gypsy Davy tells the story of David Jones, stage name: ¡®David Serva,¡¯ from the perspective of his five women and five children-one of whom is the director. After all, who knows the man who came and saw and conquered, ¡®strumming their pain with his fingers, killing them softly with his song,¡¯ better than they? Part duel and part duet-between a guitar-wielding father and a camera-pointing daughter-the film is a personal and political portrait of a man, a family, a generation. Shot over a ten-year period in five countries across three continents, and featuring some of the finest ¡®old-school¡¯ Gypsy Flamenco artists as well as some of the hottest names in American and Spanish alternative rock (not to mention a title song made famous by Woody Guthrie), Gypsy Davy is much more than another hunt-down-the absent-father movie, it¡¯s a home-made epic.
Rachel Leah JONES
Born in Berkeley, California in 1970 and raised between Berkeley and Tel Aviv, Jones is a socially and politically engaged documentary filmmaker who specializes in Israel/Palestine. She has a BA in Race, Class and Gender Studies from the Evergreen State College and a MFA in Media Arts Production from the City University of New York. Gypsy Davy (2012) Targeted Citizen (2010) Ashkenaz (2007) 500 Dunam on the Moon (2002)
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