Springfield MO Soccer

Folks, the Springfield premiere showing of ONCE IN A LIFETIME is two weeks away. Saturday February 24th I hope you’ll help me fill the Gillioz theatre and show Springfield that this is a soccer town. A flyer is going out this weekend to all of the local club teams and I’m working with Kelly Ross to offer a special memento or two as a fund raiser for Lake Country Soccer.

In addition to showing the film, the director will be available to tell about his experiences making the film afterwards. Paul Crowder is married to a Glendale graduate, Kelly H’Doubler, so I’m ready to categorize this one as Represent Springfield Soccer. Here’s some information on Paul from the website:

“Once In A Lifetime” marks Paul Crowder’s feature length, directorial debut. Born in London England 1962, Crowder’s entertainment career started as a professional musician and recording studio engineer. With his band The Adventures, he released five albums, which included a top 20 hit in Europe, and opened for Tears for Fears and Fleetwood Mac in the U.S. In 1989, Crowder moved to Los Angeles and joined Eric Burdon (of the Animals), Robbie Krieger (The Doors) and Brian Auger (Oblivion Express) in the Eric Burton/Brian Auger Band. Following that, he went on to become one of the founding members of the band Floggin’ Molly.

In 1994, Crowder started assisting film editors, and in 1995 quit music and went full time into film editing. Starting in Reality TV for the major networks in its very early days, he edited such classics as “Close Calls: Cheating Death” and “Video Justice.” Crowder then went to VH1 and edited over 50 episodes of “Behind the Music,” including episodes on Ozzy Osbourne, Oasis, Vanilla Ice and Run DMC. It was during this time that he met director Stacy Peralta on the show “Influences, Yesterday and Today” which was being produced for the Museum of Television and Radio. He and Peralta made two shows for MOTR and when it came time for Stacy to make his first feature documentary, “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” Stacy asked Paul to be his editor.

Following the critical success of “Dogtown” (voted Audience Favorite and Best Director at Sundance 2001, and Best Documentary at the 2002 Independent Spirit Awards), Crowder edited “Riding Giants” (also with Stacy Peralta), garnering the A.C.E. “Eddie” for Best Edited Documentary. He and Peralta continue to enjoy a productive career together and are in the early process of their next documentary.

During 2004, Crowder directed and edited two commercials for Twenty20 Bank in South Africa, and he directed, produced and wrote two episodes of the OLN series “Fearless” (the first about Surfer Kelly Slater, and the second about Mountaineer Peter Hillary). A self-proclaimed “football nutcase” and Chelsea supporter since 1970, Crowder named his second daughter Zola after a Chelsea football player, so, in late 2004 when he met actor/director/producer Fisher Stevens who was looking for an director/editor for “a soccer movie,” he knew it was an offer he could not possibly turn down.

Have I mentioned he’s currently working on a documentary “My Generation: Who’s Still Who”