''Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?'' is a 2015 American short

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about musician

Daniel Johnston Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in Outsider music, outsider, Lo-fi music, lo-fi, and alternative rock, alternative music scenes. Most ...

. The film was directed by Gabriel Sunday and executive produced by

Lana Del Rey Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Lana Del Rey discography, Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of Glamour (presentation), glamor and Romanc ...

and

Mac Miller Malcolm James McCormick (January 19, 1992 – September 7, 2018), known by the stage name Mac Miller, was an American rapper. He began his career in Pittsburgh's local hip hop music, hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of 15. In 2010, he signed ...

. It premiered in Los Angeles at the Mama Gallery in November 2015.

Background and development

According to ''

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'', the film took eight years to develop. The magazine described the motive of the film "to bring the audience inside the artist's schizophrenic head with that location acting as a cage-like home for his creative processes." The film was funded through a crowd-funding campaign on

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, with rapper

and singer-songwriter

both contributing funds to it. The duo were credited as executive producers for the film due to their $10,000 contributions. Del Rey would end up becoming more closely involved, recording a song for the soundtrack, a cover of Johnston's "Some Things Last a Long Time". The song was used in the soundtrack for the film. The film's title derives from Johnston's self-proclaimed "unfinished album" from 1983, '' Hi, How Are You''.

Cast

*Daniel Johnston as himself * Greg McLeod as 1983 Jeremiah The Innocent (voice) * Myles McLeod as 2015 Jeremiah The Innocent (voice) * Soko as Dream Laurie * Gabriel Sunday as 1983 Daniel Johnston

Promotion and release

The film premiered at the

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in Los Angeles on November 7, 2015. The film premiered on the internet on November 11 and went on a film festival run in 2016, gaining the Bohemian Rhapsody Award for Sunday at the Sydney Underground Film Festival and an Honorable Mention as an Anarchy Short at the

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The film's credits cite

, Larry Janss,

, Dick Johnston, David Lee Miller,

, and Barrie-James O'Neill as executive producers, with Sarah Rivka, Matt Roznovak, Tomas Seidita, Ben Speigelman, Erica Sterne, Jason Suhrke, and Gabriel Sunday as producers.

References

External links

Official Website
* {{Daniel Johnston 2015 films American short documentary films Documentary films about rock music and musicians Daniel Johnston Kickstarter-funded documentaries Lana Del Rey Mac Miller 2010s English-language films 2010s American films 2015 short documentary films English-language short documentary films