Talk:Paul Devlin (filmmaker)

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Paul’s first independent film was a scripted feature that he wrote, directed and produced called The Eyes of St. Anthony, starring James McAffrey. (Rescue Me, Max Payne)

Paul produced, directed and edited the television pilot Slammin - The Sport of Spoken Word, which documented a semi-final poetry slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City and was nominated for a New York Emmy Award for Outstanding Fine Art Programming.

This project led to Devlin’s first feature-length documentary, SlamNation, which followed the Nuyorican Poet’s Café’s poetry slam team, as it competed in the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon. Starring Saul Williams, and many other prominent performance poets, the film premiered at the SXSW film festival, was released theatrically across the U.S.by the Cinema Guild, and broadcast on HBO. SlamNation was an LA Weekly “Film Pick of the Week.” Commenting on the growing popularity of slam poetry, The New York Times wrote, “SlamNation could one day be viewed as the genre’s answer to “Monterey Pop.”    An interview with Devlin about the genesis of SlamNation compromises an entire chapter of Cristin O’Keefe’s Aptowitz’s book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour through the New York City Poetry Slam, which refers to the movie as "Slam's Second Bible."

Devlin was the producing editor of Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, which won best documentary at the Woodstock FIlm Festival, was broadcast on VH1, and distributed by Palm Pictures.

Devlin directed, and edited the feature documentary Power Trip.. The film follows the acquisition of Telasi, the electricity distribution company of Tbilisi, Georgia, by an American utility, AES Corporation - one of the world’s leading power companies. Reviewing Power Trip during its theatrical release, Variety wrote, "Made with deft evenhandedness, Paul Devlin's accomplished film plays almost like a fictional drama, containing suspense, comedy and some colorful characters." The Hollywood Reporter commented that Power Trip was “an effective microcosmic portrait of the vast political, social and economic changes endured by the region." The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won two awards,​​was awarded ??? by Transparency International, and went on to win over a dozen film festival awards as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Documentary. Power Trip was broadcast in over 60 countries including PBS’s Independent Lens.

Devlin’s next feature documentary, BLAST!, follows the launch of the telescope BLAST in Antarctica. The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto and theatrically at the IFC Center in New York City. The Chicago Reader wrote, “Fast, fun, and beautiful to look at, Blast! (2008) communicates the joys and heartbreaks of scientific creativity without unduly taxing viewers who don't know dark matter from pancake batter.” The film features the filmmaker’s brother, astrophysicist Mark Devlin, who was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Material World, NPR’s Science Friday and Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report as part of the movie’s promotion.

Devlin’s feature documentary The Front Man, follows the rock and roll  band Loaded Poets over the course of 27 years. The film premiered at Cinequest Film Festival and screened at the IFC Center in New York as part of Raphaela Neihausen and Thom Powers documentary film series “Stranger Than Fiction.” The Front Man is distributed by The Orchard.


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Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. New York City: Soft Skull Press. p. 137. ISBN 1-933368-82-9. Elizasypon (talk) 21:31, 7 May 2024 (UTC)