Jeremy Marre
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Jeremy Marre is a television director
, writer and producer who founded Harcourt Films and has worked extensively around the world. Many of his films are on musical subjects.
His reputation was made with the Beats of the Heart serieshttp://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=5699, which introduced elements of what is now called world music
, and its performershttp://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20000828/star/star1.html, to the Western worldhttp://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=204;5;34;62&sku=538955. The New York Times
said of the series: "It can make your jaw drop regularly with astonishment. "
He has run director courses for the National Film School, sat on the advisory boards for the British Library Sound Archive
and the Arts Council of England, has broadcast widely on BBC
radio, has written for The Times
, The Sunday Telegraph, New York Post
and The Independent
. In 2000, The Times
said of him: "Marre has an extraordinary track record over the years", and in 2011, previewing his latest music films, the Daily Telegraph wrote: "Marre's credentials are impeccable. "
There have been retrospectives of his music films at the Florence Film Festival and on Channel 4
.
. He is married with two sons.
called it: "intelligently constructed...an excellent, absorbing film" .
On the death of Malcolm McLaren
in 2010, Marre's tribute show was broadcast on BBC2. He has also recently series produced Latin Music USA, a transatlantic coproduction about the history of Latin American music and its influence on popular music in general.
Other highlights of his work in the last decade include directing a documentary on the American prison gang
The Aryan Brotherhood
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/08/02/nosplit/bvtv03last.xml; acting as series producer of the BBC
Music series Soul Britannia examining the history and influence of soul music
in Britainhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/soulbritannia/; writing and directing Marvin Gaye
: What's Going On?, a biography for the PBS
series American Masters and BBC; and The Real Phil Spector
, a one-hour biography of the reclusive music producer recently found guilty of murder, for Channel 4
.
Previously, Marre has worked with James Brown
on Soul Survivor -- The James Brown Story, a 90-minute biography featuring extended interviews, rehearsal, and performance by James Brownhttp://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1117549.ece, also featuring Little Richard, Chuck D and Dan Aykroydhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/brown_j_interview.html. This was called "sensational" by the Independent on Sunday .
His award-winning documentary Ladyboys, shown on Channel 4 and around the world, which opened the San Francisco Film Festival, and his 90-minute movie about the life of Bob Marley, earned him a Grammy nomination (Bob Marley's first), as well as winning the Cine Golden Eagle prize. This was described as "an exemplary synthesis of archive and new material" in a review in the Sunday Times .
Earlier work ranged from the BAFTA nominated (2002)http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/2002 opening one-hour film for the BBC series Walk on By; via an eight-hour Channel 4 series Chasing Rainbows, a part-dramatised story of British popular music and the 3-part series Nature of Music (Channel 4) about ritual and music around the world; to Forbidden Image, with an original score by Ravi Shankar
, for ITV.
Marre's four-part Channel 4 series about musical improvisation around the world, On the Edgehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1674695,00.html is still being shown regularly at festivals around the world.
He has made several of the BBC series Classic Albums, worked with Gerald Durrell on a 12-part series entitled Ourselves and Other Animals, and written, produced and directed programmes for the South Bank Show which have won awards such as the Milan Grand Prix and the Golden Harp.
Beats of the Heart http://www.harcourtfilms.com/beats.html was his 14-hour, multi-award-winning series on world music that was networked several times on British television, accompanied by his book of the same name and 14 videos/DVDs. The films include Roots, Rock, Reggae (Jamaican music)http://www.itzcaribbean.com/roots_rock_reggae2.php and Rhythm of Resistance on black music as resistance to apartheid in South Africa. The Boston Globe said of the films: "Each is a marvel of sociological, as well as musical, insight ".
His work for cinema includes Way of the Sword and Soul of the Samurai.
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...
, writer and producer who founded Harcourt Films and has worked extensively around the world. Many of his films are on musical subjects.
His reputation was made with the Beats of the Heart serieshttp://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=5699, which introduced elements of what is now called world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
, and its performershttp://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20000828/star/star1.html, to the Western worldhttp://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=204;5;34;62&sku=538955. The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
said of the series: "It can make your jaw drop regularly with astonishment. "
He has run director courses for the National Film School, sat on the advisory boards for the British Library Sound Archive
British Library Sound Archive
The British Library Sound Archive in London, England is one of the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings....
and the Arts Council of England, has broadcast widely on BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
radio, has written for The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, The Sunday Telegraph, New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
and The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
. In 2000, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
said of him: "Marre has an extraordinary track record over the years", and in 2011, previewing his latest music films, the Daily Telegraph wrote: "Marre's credentials are impeccable. "
There have been retrospectives of his music films at the Florence Film Festival and on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
.
Biography
Marre grew up and was educated in London. He read law and began training as a lawyer, before studying film at the Slade School and the Royal College of ArtRoyal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
. He is married with two sons.
Career
Marre's most recent completed work is the BBC's acclaimed Reggae Britannia, a history of reggae music in the UK, premiered in February 2011, when the ObserverObserver
Observer may refer to person who is observing. More specialised meanings follow.-Computer science and information theory:*In information theory, any system which receives information from an object....
called it: "intelligently constructed...an excellent, absorbing film" .
On the death of Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...
in 2010, Marre's tribute show was broadcast on BBC2. He has also recently series produced Latin Music USA, a transatlantic coproduction about the history of Latin American music and its influence on popular music in general.
Other highlights of his work in the last decade include directing a documentary on the American prison gang
Prison gang
Prison gang is a term used to denote any type of gang activity in prisons and correctional facilities. Prison officials and others in law enforcement use the term security threat group or STG...
The Aryan Brotherhood
Aryan Brotherhood
The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 20,000 members in and out of prison...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/08/02/nosplit/bvtv03last.xml; acting as series producer of the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Music series Soul Britannia examining the history and influence of soul music
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
in Britainhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/soulbritannia/; writing and directing Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....
: What's Going On?, a biography for the PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
series American Masters and BBC; and The Real Phil Spector
Phil Spector
Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector is an American record producer and songwriter, later known for his conviction in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson....
, a one-hour biography of the reclusive music producer recently found guilty of murder, for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
.
Previously, Marre has worked with James Brown
James Brown
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
on Soul Survivor -- The James Brown Story, a 90-minute biography featuring extended interviews, rehearsal, and performance by James Brownhttp://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1117549.ece, also featuring Little Richard, Chuck D and Dan Aykroydhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/brown_j_interview.html. This was called "sensational" by the Independent on Sunday .
His award-winning documentary Ladyboys, shown on Channel 4 and around the world, which opened the San Francisco Film Festival, and his 90-minute movie about the life of Bob Marley, earned him a Grammy nomination (Bob Marley's first), as well as winning the Cine Golden Eagle prize. This was described as "an exemplary synthesis of archive and new material" in a review in the Sunday Times .
Earlier work ranged from the BAFTA nominated (2002)http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/2002 opening one-hour film for the BBC series Walk on By; via an eight-hour Channel 4 series Chasing Rainbows, a part-dramatised story of British popular music and the 3-part series Nature of Music (Channel 4) about ritual and music around the world; to Forbidden Image, with an original score by Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
, for ITV.
Marre's four-part Channel 4 series about musical improvisation around the world, On the Edgehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1674695,00.html is still being shown regularly at festivals around the world.
He has made several of the BBC series Classic Albums, worked with Gerald Durrell on a 12-part series entitled Ourselves and Other Animals, and written, produced and directed programmes for the South Bank Show which have won awards such as the Milan Grand Prix and the Golden Harp.
Beats of the Heart http://www.harcourtfilms.com/beats.html was his 14-hour, multi-award-winning series on world music that was networked several times on British television, accompanied by his book of the same name and 14 videos/DVDs. The films include Roots, Rock, Reggae (Jamaican music)http://www.itzcaribbean.com/roots_rock_reggae2.php and Rhythm of Resistance on black music as resistance to apartheid in South Africa. The Boston Globe said of the films: "Each is a marvel of sociological, as well as musical, insight ".
His work for cinema includes Way of the Sword and Soul of the Samurai.
Harcourt Films
- Harcourt Films is a UK based independent television production company founded by Jeremy Marre.
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- Partial production filmography:
- A Roll of the Dice: The Capeman on Broadway (1998) (TV)
- Lie Detectors (1997) (TV)
- Grateful and the Dead (1996) (TV)
- Ladyboys (1995) (TV)
- On the Edge: Improvisation in Music - Nothin' Premeditated (1992) (TV)
- On the Edge: Improvisation in Music - A Liberating Thing (1992) (TV)
- On the Edge: Improvisation in Music - Movement in Time (1992) (TV)
- Enemies of Silence (1991) (TV)
- Beats of the Heart: Chase the Devil - Religious Music of the Appalachian Mountains (1983) (TV)
- Beats of the Heart: Rhythm of Resistance (1979) (TV)
- Beats of the Heart: Salsa (1979) (TV)
- Beats of the Heart: Roots Rock Reggae (1977) (TV)
External links
- Marre's web site
- Harcourt Films web site
- Harcourt Films at Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Interview with Marre on Marley and Reggae
- Interview with Marre on James Brown
- Beats of the Heart on DVD