Julien Temple
Award-winning music feature and documentary filmmaker Julien Temple has worked with The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Janet Jackson and Pete Doherty. He recently completed Oil City Confidential, the last film in his trilogy on British music in the 1970s, which has just won the Mojo Vision award – as well as the main prize at the 2009 Turin Film Festival. He’ll be presenting a special screening of the film at this year’s festival, along with Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.
Julien’s directorial debut The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle (1980) established his talents on the scene, where he went on to win countless film festival awards around the globe – including the Toronto, Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, to name a few. He became a household name with his pioneering career in music filmmaking, making some of the most widely known and best admired music films and documentaries of the past 30 years.
Revered by many critics, he has directed many feature films including Glastonbury, a vivid chronicle of the past 30 years of the music festival and The Future Is Unwritten, which celebrated the life of Joe Strummer.
Future features in development include the movie adaptation of the biography of British Ambassador Craig Murray’s Our Man in Samarkand about the War on Terror; and You Really Got Me – The Kinks, the story of Ray and Dave Davies’ sibling rivalry and the brilliant love-hate creative force behind the legendary band.
Oil City Confidential website
Oil City Confidential Facebook page
“…Nothing less than a masterclass in musical hagiography, beautifully photographed, superbly edited and utterly involving.”
Time Out.
Official Oil City Confidential trailer:
The Flies music video, directed by Julien Temple:
