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Closing Credits for the Stained Glass Art Movie Documentary

Who knew a documentary about a stained-drinking glass window could be so colorful?

Said the managing director in a printing kit for the film: "Believe me, I know ... at face value, a documentary almost a stained-glass window, no thing how large information technology is, seems like it could be boring every bit hell."

Except it isn't.

Says who?

People who have seen the film.

"Holy Frit," a documentary most the making of a jumbo stained-glass window, premiered at the Park Metropolis, Utah-based Slamdance Film Festival and captured the audition honour for documentary characteristic.

It was a triumph for a Tulsan.

Nathan Hale High School alum Justin Monroe is the director and producer of "Holy Frit." If you sampled the local music scene in the 1990s, maybe you saw him on a stage. Tulsa ring Jify Trip accumulated a following back in the 24-hour interval. Former Tulsa Globe music author Thomas Conner one time described Jify Trip equally "Tulsa'southward miniature (and cheerier) Smashing Pumpkins." Monroe was Jify Trip's frontman.

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Then, you danced. At present, Slamdance.

If you're wondering how Monroe transitioned from playing music in Tulsa to crafting an award-winning documentary about a stained-drinking glass window, it'south considering (A) he had to escape the rock 'north' curl lifestyle and (B) he couldn't resist sharing the story of this stained-glass window.

Monroe said music used to be his "whole world." He gave his all to information technology — and almost gave too much.

"We were young and living on the edge, and it got the best of us," he said. "It definitely got the best of me. And and so I knew that I was going to wind upward dead if I did not get myself together."

Monroe said he went back to higher to written report theater, picture and television. He did what many people practise who are interested in pursuing careers in that field. He headed due west with wife Kasey, a Bixby gal.

The stained-glass window? It's not just any stained-glass window. It'due south a stained-drinking glass window the size of an NBA court. Without people, basketball courts would be boring. The same dynamic applies to stained drinking glass. People make "Holy Frit" interesting.

"Like a great heist motion-picture show, the documentary brings together a crew of unlikely personalities and showcases the lengths they go to do something inadvisable, insane and inarguably brilliant," said filmthreat.com, an independent moving picture guide.

Here's the story: Tim Carey is a talented, yet unknown Los Angeles-based artist. Tim and the visitor (Judson Studios) he works for bluff their way into beating out 60 companies from around the globe and winning the commission to make the earth's largest stained-glass window of its kind.

Exist conscientious what you lot wish for? Carey doesn't know how he'due south going to achieve the feat. A drastic search for help leads him to a globe-famous Italian glass maestro, Narcissus Quagliata. Only volition the expert share his secrets? Together, Carey (whose wit and humor charms others into forgiving his flaws) and the maestro embark on a three-year race confronting time.

"Their human relationship, it'southward rocky and crazy and volatile, but too beautiful," Monroe said.

"They really forge a lasting friendship that continues more and more every day. You run across that happen in real time basically. I wanted this to be a verite film, where you watch the whole thing come together in the timeline that it was, and that was kind of neat to watch that unfold. No one knew. Are they going to pull this off? Is information technology going to suck? Is it going to be horrible? Tim didn't know what he was doing and, to be honest, Narcissus had never done anything even close to this size before."

Monroe had directed or produced ii previous features, including the 2010 shot-in-Tulsa film, "The Rock 'N' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher." He didn't set out to detect a story to tell nigh stained-glass windows (beautiful simply not really his thing). The story sort of homed in on him.

When Monroe and his family relocated to Pasadena a few years ago, 1 of his neighbors was Carey.

"Serendipity," Monroe said. "I literally moved adjacent door to the guy."

Carey asked the Oklahoma filmmaker to shoot a promo video for a large project his company was pitching. The project was the stained-drinking glass window. How big is information technology? And you don't know how you lot're going to do it? Monroe talked his fashion into doing more than the promo video. He documented the entire process.

"At first, they were like, 'No one is going to care well-nigh this.' And I said, 'I promise you this is very interesting and you guys are interesting in and of yourselves. Let's just see what happens.'"

Monroe invested six years of his life in making his first documentary. He wasn't sure if audiences would become for the finished product. He was overwhelmed by the response at Slamdance.

"To take won Slamdance, information technology really made me cry," he said. "I just couldn't believe that they were announcing our name and but all the really neat things that have come up (our way) since then."

Slamdance was the kickoff festival for "Holy Frit," which has been green-lighted for additional motion picture festivals. A sales agent is reaching out to distributors. Maybe "Holy Frit" will notice its way to a streaming platform or secure a small theatrical deal.

Regardless, the ex-music artist finds fulfillment in making a dissimilar kind of art. Monroe said it yet breaks his heart that he had to leave his music career behind. But he gets to include music in his films (listen for the Oklahoma band BRONCHO) and he said winning Slamdance "broke my heart in a wonderful mode. I just couldn't believe it resonated with people. It was actually cool."

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