Eddy Moretti Movies
After obtaining an M.A. in cinema studies from New York University, filmmaker Eddy Moretti dove headfirst into the industry, co-authoring screenplays for Brad Pitt's studio Plan B Films, and launching an Internet video network, VBS.com, which he developed with his creative partners Shane Smith and Spike Jonze. In addition to directing, appearing in, and executive producing several projects on the network, Moretti also collaborated with his team on the 2008 documentary Heavy Metal in Bagdad, which followed Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda on a strange, beautiful, and heartbreaking tour of their war-torn country. In addition to his professional work,Moretti also returned to NYU to complete his Ph.D. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide- 2008
The colorful subject of the popular underground documentary Dancing Outlaw finds his outlandish life story adapted for the big screen in this biopic penned by Vice Magazine's Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti (Heavy Metal Baghdad), and directed by UK commercial veteran Dominic Murphy. West Virginia native Jesco White was just six years old when he started huffing gasoline and lighter fluid to get high. As a troubled adolescent young Jesco bounced between work camps and reform schools until the day his father, famed mountain dancer D. Ray White, taught him how to tap dance. That skill would prove indispensable in helping Jesco keep his wicked ways in check after his father is murdered and the demons come knocking. Lacing up his father's tap shoes and taking his show on the road, Jesco (Edward Hogg) eventually meets Cilla (Carrie Fisher), the woman he will eventually call his wife. But even true love can't prevent Jesco from being split by the double-edged sword of revenge and redemption, and for the man who craves both there is truly no peace. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ed Hogg, Carrie Fisher, (more)
VICE Magazine co-founder Suroosh Alvi and VICE Films head Eddy Moretti embark on a gonzo journey to meet Iraq's only heavy metal band in a freewheeling documentary focusing on youth culture in war-torn Iraq. In the summer of 2005, shortly after Saddam Hussein's brutal rule came to an end, Iraqi heavy metal group Acrassicauda (named after an especially venomous breed of black scorpion) teamed with VICE Magazine to stage a sold out rock concert. Over a year later, VICE co-founder Alvi and filmmaker Moretti travel back to the Middle Eastern country to find out how the war has affected the band. What they find upon arriving for their reunion with Acrassicauda is especially disturbing. These are the images that the network news refuses to run - the story of an entire generation who risk their lives simply by standing in the open, and who are driven from their homeland by bombs and machinegun fire. In order to even practice, the band would have to risk their lives by exposing themselves to both Iraqi snipers and suspicious coalition forces. Then again, after your studio has been bombed into the ground what's the point in rehearsing anyway? ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, (more)
