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Show r Matthew Chapman Pacesetters Inventive Film Director By LAURA JONES Arti Editor "I like to attend film festivals because it provides me with a rare opportunity to meet the audience and find out what they think of my films," said Matthew Chapman, director of "Strangers Kiss," during a recent interview at the Park City independent film festival. "We made it (the movie) in just 19 days, but I'm very happy with it," he continued. "Strangers Kiss" is actually a movie about making movies during the 1950 s. Loosely based upon "Killer's Kiss," the low budget feature film that first gained tity." Chapman had already established himself as a man to be watched with his first feature film, ' Hussy," which plays on cable TV quite often. As a result, he was able to enlist the aid of Michael White, the English pro- ducer of the films "My Dinner With Andre" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to bankroll his project. Producer Dilge devised a plan wherein the cast and crew deferred their salaries and agreed to share in whatever success the film has. Chapman was able to attract Peter Coyote, best known as the scientist in "E.T." as the star of his movie, and a fully professional crew to take care of the technical aspects of the production. Michael Riva, who was the art ar of Lonway into assistant lighting w - Pape25A w ria Tennant) in a scene from "Strangers Kiss," released by Orion Classics. WHAT DO THESE HIGH TECHNOLOGY AIRCRAFT HAVE IN COMMON? director of "Ordinary People" worked on "Strangers," as did Beechcraft Storship U.S. Army Block Hawk I Russian cinematogra-phe- r Mikhail Suslov. Fascinating as the story behind the making of this film is, it pales beside Chapman himself. Born in 1950 in a small factory 1150,000. The director and three of his town on the outskirts of London, friends, producer Douglas Dilge, his parents were "basically simactress Victoria Tennant, whom ple country folk" He is a direct many may remember as Robert descendant of Charles Darwin Mitchum's mistress in "The whose family had a very Winds of War," and tradition of attending and actor Blaine Novak pooled their Trinity College at Cambridge Uniefforts. versity, but Chapman didn't even "None of us were doing particu- make it out of high school. Seemingly born with an averlarly well with the studios," says Chapman, "and we thought we sion to authority, his school cacould do better as a unit than as reer was marked by delinquincy and academic failure. individuals. "We packaged ourselves much "I didn't think the educational as an agency like William morris system was run properly," he would. We put together the stars, states matter-of-factl"Doesn't writers, director and producer it amaze you that five year olds and became a commercial en are all curious about every every well-know- THE HERALD. Provo. Utah m Stevie Blake (Blaine Novak), The Director (Peter Coyote), and Carol Redding (Vic to-- key-jangli- Stanley Kubrick recognition, it received very good reviews at the San Diego and Montreal film festivals where it appeared earlier this year. Chapman is an inventive and personally engaging man. At a time when movies normally cost several million dollars to make, he was able to gather together a very impressive cast and crew aand produce his film for a mere aa 26, 1S84, Vlt - couple of plays that were cameraman. Central I'Uh. Sunday. February vV. thing around them? After you send them to school they no longer care about anything." One of his first jobs was working the spotlight in a seedy cabaret. He became romantically involved there with a prostitute who provided inspiration for his film "Hussy." After awhile Chapman began researching documentaries and in his early twenties decided he wanted to write. He authored a produced on the fringes don, and then found his the movies, first as an editor and then as a in n a at m a m aw . at y. Beehive State Buzzes With Film Activity Approximately $20 million in production revenue was generated in the Beehive State during the 1982-8- 3 fiscal year by feature, TV, commercialand BOTH WILL FLY WITH COMPONENTS MADE OF ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS MANUFACTURED AT FIBERTEK Salt Lake has even been known to double for the ocean in at least one film. And it's very spectacular scenery in addition to the kind industrial film Fibertek is a recognized innovator in the reinforced plastics industry. We have pioneered many of the techniques commonly used today in the process of filament winding. 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