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San Francisco-based filmmaker Bradley Beesley has been named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "Top 25 Independent Filmmakers" of the year.   His critically acclaimed 2005 documentary "The Fearless Freaks" featuring the Flaming Lips, has screened worldwide and aired on The Sundance Channel.  Summercamp!, a new documentary that Bradley co-directed with Sarah Price, premiered at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and will have theatrical distribution in 2007. Bradley also directed The Creek Runs Red, a documentary on the current ecological devastation left behind by the once booming mining industry of Pitcher, Oklahoma. The Creek Runs Red is scheduled for PBS broadcast in the fall of 2007.   Earlier this year, Bradley directed   "Roller Girls" an episodic documentary for A&E. In 2001 he completed his award-winning documentary Okie Noodling, which captures the art of barehanded fishing in Oklahoma and continues to have encore PBS broadcasts. His long-term collaboration with the Flaming Lips includes co-directing ten of their music videos and acting as producer and cinematographer on the sci-fi narrative Christmas on Mars.  His first film, Hill Stomp Hollar features R.L. Burnside and won first runner-up at the 1999 SXSW film festival.



 
       
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