Craig Zobel’s Great World of Sound

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/craig_zobels_great_world_of_sound_20071214/
Growing up in Atlanta, first-time writer-director-producer Craig Zobel had a bevy of artistic inspiration around him. Enough, in fact, to help launch the popular online site HomestarRunner.com with friends Mike and Matt Chapman and land production positions on three films by southern moviemaking darling David Gordon Green. In 2005 he channeled the area’s long music history into his first feature, Great World of Sound, a largely improvised, highly diverting tale revealing the southern tradition of sound sharking. The movie, about two aspiring music producers who are inadvertently brought into a scam company, played at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and just recently brought home the honor of Breakthrough Director from IFP’s Gotham Awards and a nomination for Best First Feature from the Independent Spirit Awards.