Filmmaker Doug Pray is credited with editing the Hughes brother’s “American Pimp,” one of my all-time favorite documentaries, but more recently he directed a doc about truckers called “Big Rig.” “Big Rig” screened last spring at SWSX and is showing this week at the American Film Institute Fest in Hollywood.
Getting truckers to talk on camera and share their unconventional lifestyle as they haul products from coast to coast is a movie idea that crossed my mind as I’m sure it crossed the minds of many other aspiring documentary fillmakers in the country. But the cool thing about Doug Pray is that he seems to come up with great project ideas and then goes and gets them done.
His other documentary directing credits include: “Hype!” (1996) about the music scene in the Northwest in the early 1990s, “Scratch” (2001) about Hip-Hop DJs, and “Infamy” (2005) about grafitti artists.
Next up for Pray is “Surfwise,” which tells the story of Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz: an 85-year-old surfer, health expert and sex king who is married and has nine children all of whom were homeschooled and grew up on a bus traveling the country in search of tasty waves. Sounds like a another good one.