DEAR JACK: A Screening with Corey Moss
Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Corey Moss codirected, wrote and produced this 78-minute feature documentary Dear Jack about the Jack's Mannequin/Something Corporate singer Andrew McMahon and his bout with leukemia at the age of 22. Moss is an executive producer at Yahoo! Originals, where he created "Primetime in No Time," the highest-rated show on the Web. He has also written and directed short films starring Jackie Chan, Brett Ratner and Jamie Kennedy. He graduated from Iowa State with a journalism degree.dearjackmovie.com
On November 3rd, Sire Records will release the DVD and digital download editions of Dear Jack - a deeply personal documentary made by Jack’s Mannequin frontman Andrew McMahon - that chronicles the year that McMahon, then 22, spent battling acute lymphoma leukemia while trying to release Jack’s Mannequin’s 2005 debut album Everything in Transit.
Dear Jack chronicles Andrew McMahon on a rollercoaster year, through the highs of recording and releasing the first Jack's Mannequin album, and the lows of being diagnosed with leukemia and breaking up with the love of his life.
Using a DV camera Sire Records bought him to capture the making of his album, McMahon shot everything before and after that crucial day in May of 2005 when he both finished the project and was diagnosed with cancer.
Directed by filmmakers Cory Moss and Josh Morrisroe and narrated by Tommy Lee, this documentary is a raw look at the battle that is leukemia, from spinal taps to radiation, from using a lint brush to remove your hair to infusing your body with someone else's stem cells (in this case, Andrew's sister Kate).
Dear Jack is a breathtakingly emotional film as well as a testament to family, friends and, perhaps more than anyone will ever know, a love of making music.
Cosponsored By:
- Freshman Council
- Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
- Iowa State Daily
- Student Union Board
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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