RAISING HELL – Filming
Logline: 1964. Texan born PJ Proby was set on being bigger than Elvis, who had hired him to record his demos. The Beatles launched his career on their first ever TV show in England. Tom Jones called him “…the greatest singer I ever heard” and Led Zeppelin were his backing band on his Three Week Hero album. Then overnight he disappeared. 50 years later, a naive filmmaker turns up on his doorstep in his hideaway in the middle of England and is told a story stranger than fiction…
Synopsis
Synopsis: 1964. Texan-born James Marcus Smith (PJ Proby) was set on being bigger than Elvis, who had hired him to record his demos. The Beatles launched his career on their first ever TV show in England. Tom Jones called him “…the greatest singer I ever heard” and Led Zeppelin were his backing band on his Three Week Hero album. Then overnight he disappeared. 50 years later, a naive filmmaker turns up on his doorstep in his hideaway in the middle of England and is told a story stranger than fiction…
Filmed over ten years, Raising Hell is a psychological portrait of talent, trauma and the patterns we struggle to break.
Crew
Writer/Director: Julia Stovell
Produced and photographed by: Julia Stovell & Oliver Potterton
Production Company: Coconut Monk Films