Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Chris Wilcha’s latest documentary, FLIPSIDE. The film, executive produced by Judd Apatow premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked in as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting the abandoned documentary projects that have marked his career. In the process, he captures “The American Life” icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative rebirth, discovers the origin story of David Bowie’s ode to a local New Jersey cable television hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and TV writer
David Milch. This disparate collection of stories coheres into something strange and expansive — a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.
FLIPSIDE was directed by Chris Wilcha; produced by, Michelle Currinder, Alex Fisch, Adam Samuel Goldman, James Smith, Joe Bershenkovsky, and Chris Wilcha; executive produced by Judd Apatow, James P. O’Shaughnessy, Lance Acord, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Sam Bisbee and Justin Pollock; includes cinematography by Adam Beckman, with music by Rafter Roberts and Adam Samuel Goldman; edited by Joe Beshenkovsky and Claire Ave’Lallemant; and written by Joe Beshenkovsky, Adam Samuel Goldman and Chris Wilcha.
