Jordan Galland
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Jordan Galland is an award-winning filmmaker, musician, and cartoonist. He has also contributed his music to raise money and awareness of various charitable causes.
Other Entrepreneurial endeavors of Galland's include his own Record label: Slush Puppy Music, as well as his own production company:Ravenous Films.[1]
Galland lives and works in New York City.[2]
Biography
Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Galland was raised in New York City and graduated in 2002 from New York University, where he studied film, animation and mythology.
Music career
- At eighteen, Galland formed the rock band Dopo Yume,[3] which played shows with Rufus Wainwright, Cibo Matto
- Dopo Yume also played shows with musical group Phantom Planet,both contributed musical selections to the popular show The O.C.
California (Phantom Planet song), and Dopo Yume's contribution The Secret Show.(The Day After Tomorrow (The O.C. episode))
- A later band, Domino, is signed to Mark Ronson's Allido Records label. Additionally, Galland has collaborated with his childhood friend, Sean Lennon,[4] played electric piano on Mark Ronson's album Version[5] and co-wrote tracks on Daniel Merriweather's 2010 Love & War (Daniel Merriweather album)
, also released on Allido Records.
- In 2006, Jordan Galland began working on a series of solo material with friends and former band-mates David Muller (formerly of the Fiery Furnaces) and Sam Oates for what would ultimately become his solo-debut, "Airbrush." In 2008, Galland and Muller continued to build on the solo-material and co-produced Jordan Galland's sophomore solo release, "Search Party." The album was recorded by the pair at a friend's house turned studio in Hampton Bays, New York and mixed by Ron Shaffer at Atlantic West Studios in Brooklyn.[6]
Recently, Galland has been collaborating with the Neistat Brothers on a number of Short Film projects.
Galland collaborated with Mark Ronson, in a video homage to The Legend of Zelda (video game)[7]
Awards won
- Green Umbrella — Best Musical Form, 2006 Da Vinci Film and Video Festival[8]
- Green Umbrella – Best Animated Short, 2006 Black Earth Film Festival[9]
- Green Umbrella — Music Video Award (animation), second place, 2006 Indie Gathering[10]
- Smile for the Camera — ScreenCraft Award (short film), 2005 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival[11]
- Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead-Comedy Award at DC Independent Film Festival,[12]
2010 *L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival Movie Magic Screenwriter Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalists: Commercial Affairs[13]
Movie genres
Galland has contributed to a wide spectrum of movies, ranging from romantic comedy to the genre of Horror film, and Zombie comedy
Contributions to film
| Year | Title | Comments |
| 2004 | The Long Weekend | Song: "Central Park" |
| Knots | Song: "The Postcard" | |
| 2005 | Smile for the Camera | Writer/actor, won award at prestigious New York International Independent Film and Video Festival |
| National Lampoon's Adam & Eve | song writer: "Postcard", "I Can't Say Why", "The Fun") | |
| Green Umbrella | Writer/actor, won numerous awards | |
| 2006 | Friendly Fire | Co-wrote various songs/ actor |
| 2008 | Day of the Dead | song writer "Coolest Boy on Earth" |
| Coin Locker Babies | Screenwriter | |
| 21 | song on soundtrack: "Tropical Moonlight", performed by Domino | |
| The Last International Playboy | song on soundtrack: "Brigitte Bardot", performed by Dopo Yume | |
| 2009 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead | Executive producer, cartoonist, won comedy award at DC Independent Film Festival.
Nominated for best production design at European Release at the Strasbourg Film Festival.[14] |
| The Missing Person | song on soundtrack: "Can't Say Why" | |
| 2010 | Tiny Furniture | song on soundtrack (writer): "Hide and Seek"[15] |
Film career
Galland's 2005 short film, Smile for the Camera, received an award for best screencraft at the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival in 2005.[11] Galland directed, photographed, and edited the film himself, and wrote the film’s theme song and musical score with Sean Lennon and Timo Ellis.
An animated music video for his band Domino, Green Umbrella,[16] was shown at multiple film festivals in the U.S., and in Madrid at Alcine37.[17]
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead
- Galland's feature-length debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead,[18] a vampire film which he wrote and directed, was filmed in New York City during December 2007. The movie is staring Ralph Machio, Jeremy Sisto, and Jake Hoffman. Also in 2010, Jake Hoffman is appearing in the filmBarney's Version coincidently, along with Rachelle Lefevre whom has also starred in a Vampire movie; as she is well known for her role as vampire Victoria in The Twilight Saga (film series)
The movies' trailer was broadcasted by the popular DreadCentral
- The movie is to be released in June 2010,[19] through Indican, which released Monster Beach Party as well as Pure (2002 film).[20]
- On Halloween of 2009, a launch party was held at hot spot Wooleys in New York to celebrate the movie. It was attended by many New York luminaries from music, fashion, and film: Musicians Sean Lennon and Evan Dando, attended. Models Daisy Lowe, and Kemp Muhl, and Chiara Clemente;[21] fledging film director, and daughter of Francesco Clemente also were in attendance
In keeping with the vampire theme, some People dressed like vampires and drank Bloody Mary (cocktail)s. This Holloween gala was covered in Vogue (magazine)[22]
Coin Locker Babies
Galland has also been working on a screen adaptation of Ryu Murakami's Coin Locker Babies, since 1998, in collaboration with Michele Civetta, Peter Kline, and Sean Lennon.[23][24]
Musical contributions
| Year | Title | Comments |
| 2006 | Friendly Fire by Sean Lennon | co-wrote "Spectacle" and "Falling Out of Love" |
| 2007 | Version by Mark Ronson | electric piano on Amy Winehouse's cover of The Zutons' "Valerie" and Lily Allen's cover of the Kaiser Chiefs' "Oh My God" |
| 2010 | Love & War by Daniel Merriweather | co-wrote "Cigarettes" and "Live by Night" |
Dopo Yume discography
- Yumania (2001)
- In the Bedroom (2002)
- True Romance (2003) (with guitar and piano by Sean Lennon,[25] and backing vocals by Bijou Phillips[26])
- The Secret Show (2006)
Solo Discgography
- Airbrush (2009)
- Search Party (2010)
Filmography
- Smile for the Camera (short) (2005) (directed, co-wrote)
- Friendly Fire (2006)[27] (acting)
- Coven (short) (2006) (score)[28]
- Green Umbrella (music video) (2006) (directed)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (in post-production) (wrote, directed)
- Coin Locker Babies (in production) (co-wrote)
Animation
- Galland has done all the animation work in his movies, having studied animation at New York University. In addition he contributed animation (the welcoming birds) in the promotional posters for Plastic Ono Band[29]
Philanthropy
- Galland's band Dopo Yume contributed a song to a cd:Mystique, "a Benefit for the AIDS Action." [30]
- Galland's other band Domino had a listing on Mark Ronson Presents Hard Rock, which was distributed exclusivley through the Hard Rock Cafe where a portion of the proceeds go to the non profit organization: Play Pumps (Roundabout PlayPump), that helps to provide clean drinking water to third world countries.
- Galland has contributed music to countless Charity Art shows, including shows that benefit the Nest Foundation, which aids abused children in New York.
References
- ^ http://undeadflick.com/
- ^ Bio, Dopo Yume website.
- ^ “Dopo Yume”, Allmusic biography.
- ^ Discography, Sean Lennon's website
- ^ Version, www.silverplatters.com.
- ^ http://www.sonicscoop.com/2010/04/23/jordan-galland-the-art-of-spooky/
- ^ http://vimeo.com/groups/download/videos/11764695
- ^ 2006 Award Winners, Da Vinci Film Festival
- ^ 2006 Laser Carved Granite Awards, Black Earth Film Festival 2006.
- ^ 2006 Winners, The "Reel" News, Summer 2006.
- ^ a b 2005 Award Winners, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
- ^ http://www.dciff.org/2010awards.shtml
- ^ http://lacomedyshorts.com/lacs2010/scripts/finalists.htm
- ^ http://www.strasbourgfilmfest.com/up-for-nods-09.html
- ^ http://www.tinyfurniture.com/
- ^ Green Umbrella, Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Green Umbrella, Alcine: Alcalá de Henares program listing.
- ^ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead at Internet Movie Database.
- ^ http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=14720
- ^ http://www.indicanpictures.com/
- ^ http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090201/Meet+Chiara+Clemente
- ^ http://www.vogue.com/voguedaily/2009/10/overheard-the-wooly/
- ^ Lennon Gives Birth to 'Coin Locker Babies', Time Out London, March 9, 2005
- ^ “Coin Locker Babies”, Hollywood.com
- ^ Serious Dope, Daily Candy, January 27, 2003.
- ^ Hopeful Romantics, Megan Gerrity, The Dedicated Follower of Fashion, November 2003.
- ^ Friendly Fire on Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Virgins of Un-Hollywood, Whitney Spaner, Paper, October 4, 2006.
- ^ http://www.a-i-u.net/pob_nyc2010.html
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifoxqwkld0
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