Full Description
Kinky Friedman is a Jewish country musician, raconteur, writer, and agitator against the politically correct. Too smart for country and too country for the intelligentsia, Kinky Friedman and his band, The Texas Jewboys, paved the way for many unconventional country acts. His creative subversion of the genre gave birth to classics such as "They Don't Make Jews like Jesus Anymore." Celebrities Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, and Bill Clinton shed light on his music and novels. Sporting a satin country shirt with a menorah on the back, he dared to sing about the Holocaust in a country twang. This rollicking documentary traces Kinky's roots, from restless teenager to country/cult act to ink slinging Texas son of a gun. Sit back, relax, and walk a few miles in Kinky's shoes. Are lizard-skin boots kosher or treyf?
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Simone de Vries (Amsterdam, 1963) graduated from the Dutch Film Academy on Camera and Editing in 1989. She made a wide range of industrial and tv documentaries.
"Kinky Friedman – proud to be an Asshole from El Paso" is her first feature documentary film. It was broadcast by NPS television "Het Uur van de Wolf" early 2002 and has since been screened at filmfestivals in Europe, the United States en Australia.
At the moment Simone is working on a documentary about the Belgian cartoonist/writer/painter/performer Kamagurka, a.k.a. Luc Zeebroek, also for NPS television.
