
Thievery Corporation's Eric Hilton is about to see his first screenplay come to life. The film, "Babylon Central", will be released on 7/27 and the soundtrack from the film will be available on 7/19.
From a recent announcement:
Eric
Hilton of Thievery Corporation and ESL Music announce the July 27th
release of their debut film Babylon
Central, available digitally and at your favorite music store.
Early
birds will be able to score a copy of Babylon
Central’s Soundtrack on July 19th
through Amazon.com’s “Deal of the Day.” The film will also be available through
Amazon’s “Video on Demand” feature. A preorder of the physical release is
available through ESL Music's
shop page.
Babylon
Central is a fictional story from the mind of Eric Hilton and developed
into a screenplay by Hilton and Philip Hawken in 2006, debut for both. The film
is about a courier by day and aspiring DJ by night who finds himself in an
economic power play with a Saudi Prince after forgetting an important delivery.
Throughout
the fall of 2006 and the first part of 2007 they used HVX cameras, a borrowed
truck full of rental gear and called in every favor they could to create the
footage for this independent film.
Over
a period of approximately 50 shooting days that included scorching heat in
Dupont Circle to freezing temperatures during a nighttime outdoor pool-shoot,
the cast and crew of Babylon
Central used the backdrop of Washington, DC as a main character in this
film.
Upon
the completion of principal shooting and over three terabytes of raw digital
footage, Director of Photography Robin Bell worked with Hilton for nearly two
years editing to create the final cut of the film.
The
music component is also an unspoken film character. As music has been the
driving creative force behind Hilton’s career with Thievery Corporation and ESL
Music, he carefully selected 42 different songs for the inclusion in the film
score. The result is an incredible 17-song soundtrack that includes rare,
vintage, out-of print, and previously unreleased sonic gems selected by Eric
Hilton.
Grooving
fluidly across genres, the Babylon Central Soundtrack features must-have
classics like “Leaving Babylon,” a smoky reggae excursion by DC hardcore punk
luminaries Bad Brains, “Hang On In There,” a socially charged funk and soul epic
by 70’s crooner Mike James Kirland, and “Coming From The Top,” the massive
horn-punctuated break beat showstopper by Thievery Corporation.
For
more information: www.babyloncentralfilm.com
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