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Method Sampling: How to Build the Future Together

WINNER: Best Musical Documentary, DTLA Film Festival
Method Sampling is the principle used by an Oakland, CA globetrotting orchestra which fuses hip-hop and classical music to magical effect. JooWan Kim, its Korean born composer, believes that any paradigm shifting change only happens by sampling and reframing differences and sparking innovation. To test his hypothesis, he meets a disabled choreographer who revolutionized modern dance, a self-taught Black mycologist who wrote the first books on Cordyceps cultivation, and a tiny house builder with a shipbuilding background who looks at houses as inverted boats. In addition, he meets the Italian Critical Theorist, Fabio Vighi, to explore how Method Sampling may allow society to overcome the challenges it faces today.

  • Josh Nesmith
    Director
  • Matt Boman
    Director
  • JooWan Kim
    Writer
  • JooWan Kim
    Producer
  • Christopher Nicholas
    Producer
  • Matt Boman
    Producer
  • Josh Nesmith
    Producer
  • Barbara Davis
    Producer
  • JooWan Kim
    Key Cast
  • Christopher Nicholas
    Key Cast
  • Marc Brew
    Key Cast
  • Abel Zimmerman Zyl
    Key Cast
  • William Padilla Brown
    Key Cast
  • Edward Albert James
    Key Cast
    "Sandman"
  • Robert Berretta
    Key Cast
  • Samantha McShane
    Key Cast
  • Fabio Vighi
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    music, performing arts, philosophy
  • Runtime:
    56 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 21, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    250,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • DTLA Film Festival
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    November 2, 2023
    World Premiere
    Winner: Best Musical Documentary
Distribution Information
  • Cinema Libre Studio
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Josh Nesmith, Matt Boman

Josh Nesmith is a filmmaker from Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Having studied music at the undergraduate, his transition into film possesses a distinct focus on music industry clientele; and has since produced films, documentaries, and music videos with grammy award winning artists, record labels, and brands. His work has been featured on Vice, CMT, Majestic Casual, and Veeps. Josh uses his field specific knowledge in music to reach an intimate depth in understanding among the artists he collaborates with, and regards his musical background as inseparable as well as integral aspect to his cinematic style.

Josh's foray into feature length documentary was as a contributing DP for "Flamekeeper" which tells the story of Michael Cleveland, who overcomes blindness and partial deafness to become the most awarded fiddler of all time. Flamekeeper premiered in 2019 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and has later been released on Amazon Prime.

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