Arivaca Independent Filmmakers Exhibition
INDEPENDENT FILM PROGRAM
Saturday Night March 3rd
6:30 - 9:00pm
Note: This year we focus on Tucson’s independent film scene
with three powerful shorts and a feature-length music related
doc-u-film “FUZZ” by Clif Taylor
SMARTCAR
Tucson filmmaker Nathan Lee
presents ‘SMARTCAR” a well-
produced comedy about a
‘what-if’ scenerio that could
await us all in the new era of
automated pilotless vehicles.
Starring
Andrew Wolverton
Emily Wolverton
Charles Lynch
&
Directed By
Nathan Lee
(Tucson)
A Tucson native, Nathan Lee has dabbled in some form of movie making
his entire life. He began film school at the University of Arizona in 2003
but got a refund after quickly learning the coursework consisted of minimal
hands-on production time Nathan is a mechanical engineer at a small building-
design firm by day and an exhausted filmmaker by night. He prefers brief
walks on the beach if there's a brewery nearby.
The Arivaca Film Exhibition is proud to present
the first release screening of a new Adam Ray film..
Adam graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in education. While
in college his hobby for film production grew, learning from his roommates about
graphic design, video editing, and script writing. In 2008, Adam returned to Tucson,
further learning about digital SLR camera technology and guerrilla-style film
techniques. Taking the writing skills and passion from his mother, Adam began
writing fictional stories that followed the lines of Michael Crichton and Orson Scott
Card. Recent short films included: Coyote, Bored, Matchbox and 'The Dome' which
won Best of Arizona at the 2017 Arizona International Film Festival.
Tucson Filmmaker - Adam Ray
Mr Snyder is a short-film psychological drama written and directed by Adam Ray and starring Scott Martin Thomas
as Mr. Snyder - a conflicted man who attempts to make amends with his family, but with dire consequences.
SATURDAY NIGHT’S FEATURE PRESENTATION
CLIF TAYLOR’S
The fuzz box: That tiny little box between the electric guitar and the amp
that revolutionized rock music...what on earth does it do? Clif Taylor explores
this insane industry of noise making, a world populated by guitar slinging
super heroes and garage dwelling electronic geeks all sharing the collective
obsession of one day creating that perfect sonic wave of limitless
possibilities. It's a unique subculture of psychedelic music freaks and vintage
distortion connoisseurs. Guitar Gods Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton, Jon
Spencer, J Mascis, Chris Ross of Wolf-Mother and other music legends weigh
in on their favorite circuits. Would the sixties psychedelic movement even
exist sans fuzz box? This film answers all those questions and more.
A must see for anyone
interested in the nuts,
bolts, & transistors of
rock’s true history.
Clif Taylor (DIRECTOR) attended the University of Arizona, where he studied
Architecture and Media arts. Nearing the completion of a degree in Architecture he
left to play guitar with the L.A. band Crash, Bang, Crunch,Pop fronted by Black Flag
singer Ron Reyes. After recording a record (that has never surfaced) the band called
it quits and Taylor went to work as a film editor. Sharing the same environment with
Mermaids composer and legend Jack Nitzche rekindled his interest in music. Taylor
returned to his native Tucson, where he immersed in the local music scene. His
current musical project Blackwood And Co. provides the score for Fuzz.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
A short work by
Paul McCreary
Paul McCreary retired in the mid-90s and escaped to
Indiana, Colorado and now mostly in Arizona. His interests
are varied and include art, writing, photography, golf, poker,
teaching adults in Green Valley, and working on films. As in
all Paul's films, he has always been interested in what
makes people tick, and why they believe the things they do.
NOTHIN’ LEFT TO LOSE is a lucid doc-u-film by Green Valley media
artist & filmmaker Paul McCreary where he ventures into the California
desert near the Salton Sea to document eclectic people places and
things that inhabit this unusual pop-up community.
