Event Listing - Movies, Gay

Sun Oct 19, 2008 - Sat Nov 1, 2008

The 7th San Francisco International Documentary Festival

Eleven Minutes

With Jay McCaroll of Project Runway

Location	Date and Time
San Francisco Locations
The Roxie New College Film Center 3117 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 district: Mission	Sun Oct 19, 2008 (9:30pm) Wed Oct 29, 2008 (7:15pm)
Berkeley Locations
Landmark Shattuck Cinemas 2230 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 map district: Berkeley	Sat Nov 1, 2008 (9:30pm)

Description

Eleven Minutes
Directed by: Michael Selditch; Rob Tate
Starring: Jay McCarroll, Jason Low, Nancy Kane, Kelly Cutrone, Lola Brooks, Eve Salvail, Omahyra Mota

It's been two long years since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed 'the next great American designer' on season one of TV's Project Runway, and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary, Eleven Minutes, chronicles his year-long journey designing and preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores.

The goal of this documentary is to drop the pretenses of reality TV and focus on the work. All this is told in strict verite through the eyes of the articulate and entertaining Jay McCarroll, whose experience exposes us not only to the inner workings of the fashion industry and his love/hate relationship to it, but to the creative process in general.

Hair stylist, Jason Low collaborates with Jay to create a distinct collection of gravity-defying wigs for the runway. Jewelry designer, Lola Brooks finds inspiration in Jay's hot-air balloon motifs, creating a collection of three-dimensional wire sculpture jewelry. Beyond the fashion show, sales of the line to stores prove to be a big challenge for Jay. What to manufacture? Where to manufacture? How to anticipate what buyers will what want?

The result is a down-and-dirty 'Unzipped' with more work and less glamour, an in-depth, painfully raw and humorous exploration of the creative process and the constant conflict of balancing commerce with art, fame with talent, and reality-TV with actual reality.