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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

July 2011

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Premiere

Facets Film Dialogue
with filmmaker Elizabeth Lawrence and Chris "Sandman" Sand

ROLL OUT, COWBOY

His tour bus is broken, he bought his house for a thousand bucks, and his hometown's population is 120 and shrinking. Chris "Sandman" Sand is the face of the nostalgic American West, except for one thing: He looks like a Woody Guthrie protégé but raps like LL Cool J. Roll Out, Cowboy follows this country/hip-hop musician as he tours the country during the during the last U.S. presidential election. When hip hop music hit the airwaves of the North Dakota badlands, where Sand grew up, he learned to rap and rhyme to the pulse of baling machines and irrigation pumps. From indie rock groupies in city clubs to flirty grannies grinding against him in rural community dance halls, no one can resist Sandman's winsome charms or the genre-blending and endearing style that's uniquely his own. Chris Sand's story is about one man's daily effort to make his voice heard.

Roll Out, Cowboy is a one of a kind documentary, that not only showcases the musical fusion of country/hip hop/folk/rap/ styles, but also presents a part of America that remains immune to marketing campaigns, record labels, and consumerist politicking, as if it were the truth. Director Elizabeth Lawrence in her outstanding debut film, allows us to follow Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy as he travels from red state to blue and back again, blending discordant music genres into a style uniquely his own. This is not the romanticized, Roy Rogers version of the American frontier. This is Sandman. The cowboy who raps.

Directed by Elizabeth Lawrence, 2010, U.S.A., 75 mins.

Facets Film Dialogue

Filmmaker Elizabeth Lawrence will be here in person for a Q&A for all of the screenings from Friday, July 22 - Sunday, July 31st!

In addition, the Rappin' Cowboy Chris "Sandman" Sand will be here (as well as perform!) for all of the screenings from Friday, July 22-Sunday, July 24th, accompanied by producer, Warner Boutin.





Official site     Sandman site     Interview with filmmakers     Onion AV Club

Chicago Reader     Chicago Tribune     WBEZ     NewCity Chicago        

Showtimes:
Fri., July 22 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., July 23-24 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Tues., July 26 at 7 & 9 pm
Wed.-Thurs., July 27-28 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., July 30-31 at 1 pm



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