EXCLUSIVE: “I’ve told stories about my community and stuff, but this is, this is my story,” declares Frybread Face and Me director Billy Luther of his Taika Waititi executive produced feature debut…
How do you do that?Audiences are so savvy now with the types of stories and the places that stories have fit in movies, and especially with Hollywood.
They crave something, something different and especially if it’s something that also feels close to home. Something that gives them a unique insight that they haven’t really experienced. That feels new to them and I think that’s something that expands their horizons and their experience of story. For me, I’ve come from New Zealand, but the connection I have with filmmakers like Billy and Blackhorse Lowe, and all these filmmakers from here, is that we had the same story.
I think what’s great about this film, what attracted it to me as well is because I grew up in a very similar environment, and I was the odd one out who wanted to be a clown and tell stories and dress up. It’s very easy have that taken away from you growing up in small towns. It’s very hard to become an artist when you grow up in a small town and find like-minded people. Thank God I found art.Well, I just wrapped directing an episode of, the AMC show that I’ve been writing on for two seasons.
I think we’ve been tricked into thinking that if we do the Native story, there has to be a lament for a culture that’s gone by. I think the cause is still there, but it’s evolved. In New Zealand, there was an idea with all out films like, which not a bad film, it’s a great film, but it creates this whole idea of Polynesian communities and Māori people in New Zealand that all day long we ride whales and talk to the trees and play flutes on mountains and stuff.
We had very normal lives, very much like everywhere else, except its a very small town with Brown people. Like in, you remember the fun times, you remember wanting to go to a Fleetwood Mac concert.. That’s our lives too, that’s our stories too.
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