WORLD PREMIERE: Bright Shadow - a documentary about songwriter Ana Egge - debuts at the Lone Star Film Festival

Courtesy of anaegge.com

Bright Shadow, a documentary directed by Jesse Lyda, is an intimate window into the artistic journey of singer/songwriter Ana Egge. Jesse followed Ana during the run up to, making of, and release of her album Bad Blood which was produced by Steve Earle.

Jesse captured some moments on video that might be too raw for most artists to have laid bare, so it's a testament to Ana, her wife Amy, and the rest of Ana's family to let us tell their story. I think we crafted a film that is a modern, truthful meditation on artistic expression - whether that art be expressed through music, film, or family.

On a personal note, and admittedly this is a bit of inside baseball, it's the first feature I edited using Apple's Final Cut Pro X, which was much maligned by professional editors at the time we started work on the project. We used Final Cut X before it was truly, completely ready to take on a feature. The program has been improved and expanded substantially. It's my favorite NLE to use and I think its organizational features are particularly superb for documentary work.

Bright Shadow makes it's world premiere Friday, November 6th at the 2015 Lone Star Film Festival.