Blaine Dunlap
Directing
Biography
Dunlap grew up in Dallas and studied vérité filmmaking at Southern Methodist University, where he made Sometimes I Run as a student film project. He later worked at the Dallas PBS affiliate, KERA-TV, and continued making films about Dallas life, including East Dallas and Big D. He since has produced, written and directed many documentary and narrative films and now lives in New Orleans, where he devotes his time to preserving analog video recordings.
Known For
Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others.
Mouth Music
Florence Mayfield, an elderly lifelong resident of East Dallas, reminisces about the neighborhood and the many changes it has seen during her lifetime.
East Dallas, Summer, 1974
A candid portrait of the late Tennessee ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.
Hamper McBee: Raw Mash
Oklahoma is rodeo country. Sometimes Its Gonna Hurt is a film about the toughest of all rodeo events-- bullriding, and how young riders grow up to become bullriders. It was commissioned by the PBS series, "Matters of Life and Death".
Sometimes It's Gonna Hurt
A film portrait of Stanley Maupin who cleans sidewalks at night for the Dallas Department of Sanitation.
Sometimes I Run
Uncle Dave Macon, also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before becoming the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.
Uncle Dave Macon
The quiet town of Smithville, Tennessee prepares for their fourth annual Fiddler's Jamboree festival, where fiddle-player Frazier Moss takes on an up-and-coming musician named Paul Chrisman in a special competition to be held at the end of the fair.