Synopsis
Out of Idaho is a 22’ documentary profiling the New York based rock n roll singer/songwriter Jake Stigers. Originally from Boise, Idaho, Jake worked his way up on the gigging circuit and launched an independent career on moving to New York which has built an impressive online following. When the following began to spread across the Atlantic to the UK, Jake’s management got together with our sister company, booking agency Coffee Artists, who pulled together an acoustic tour. The film profiles Jake’s past, present and future through a highly paced montage of interviews, UK gigs and recordings from the USA.

Latest
To celebrate Jake signing a deal with UK label Voiceprint (the album Do You Feel High is out May 14th, single Ride With You out May 9th), Out of Idaho is now available for free viewing all over the Internet, check the links below for places to see it!

Screenings
26.08.2006 Aeon Expo, UK (screened twice)
27.08.2006 Aeon Expo, UK (screened twice)
14.09.2006 Jake Stigers "No Vacancy" Release Party, NYC, USA
07-11.03.2007 Tampere Short Film Market, Finland
08.03.2007 Coffee Films Myspace, UK
08.03.2007 Jake Stigers Myspace, USA
08.03.2007 Coffee Artists Myspace, UK
08.03.2007 Coffee Films You Tube, UK
09.03.2007 Google Video, USA
09.03.2007 Addicting Clips, USA
15.03.2007 Revver, USA
15.03.2007 PlayStarMusic, USA
15.03.2007 Indie TV, USA
15.03.2007 Jake Stigers official website, USA
15.03.2007 Coffee Artists website, UK
20.03.2007 Brightcove, USA
20.03.2007 Metacafe, USA
20.03.2007 Yahoo Video, USA
20.03.2007 Yourkindatv, UK
28.03.2007 Bliptv, USA
01.04.2007 SMS.ac, UK
05.04.2007 iFilm, USA
05.04.2007 iCini, USA
05.04.2007 vSocial, USA
22.05.2007 Zannel, USA
12.06.2007 Sharkle, USA
12.06.2007 Small Fish Online, UK
02.07.2007 Crackle, USA
18.07.2007 Portobello Film Festival, UK
6.10.2007 AZA Digital Cinema Festival, Greece
23.08.2008 Aeon Expo, UK (screened twice)
24.08.2008 Aeon Expo, UK (screened twice)

Press
Jake was recently interviewed by Skope Magazine and discussed his reaction to seeing the film for the first time, check it out here.

Director’s Statement
In late 2005 our sister company, music agency Coffee Artists, put together a short UK tour for fast emerging New York rocker Jake Stigers. Although he had almost no profile in the UK the quality of his recorded work (and the quality of our agency!) landed him a solid schedule of acoustic performances up and down England.

When he arrived in the country we decided it was a sensible time to shoot an introductory kind of film on Jake at a time when he was being introduced to our country, so we sat down for a couple of interviews, and I made it along to a couple of gigs.

Sadly, the combination of our small budget and a faulty sound desk left me without much live sound, fortunately Jake sent me over some live recorded tracks and I worked that in with album tracks to end up with something of a collage of the UK live shows, the recorded album, and Jake on his own in a studio. Getting all the lip movements synched proved something of a challenge but I liked the end result as an all round representation of Jake at that moment in time, and a fair representation of him as himself; a very sweet, genuine and funny individual with a mountain of talent.


The Filmmakers

Steve Piper is an award winning and critically acclaimed British filmmaker with a diverse range of credits from dramatic short films which have screened at most of Europe’s major festivals and with such North American festivals as LA Shorts, Microcinema Independent Exposure and Antimatter, to music documentaries and videos, feature film screenwriting for US independents and most recently wildlife documentary; he has just completed an 18 month independently financed documentary on the Scottish wildcat; one of the rarest cats in the world which has only been filmed twice previously.

Jake Stigers is a fast emerging rock n roll singer songwriter originally from Boise, Idaho, and now resident in New York. He plays almost 200 gigs a year up and down the East Coast with band the Velvet Roots, has gained universal critical acclaim from indie media, and has already begun building an impressive following in the UK after two further tours, with full band, in 2006. At the end of 2006 he signed a distribution deal for the album "Do You Feel High" which will be available worldwide from April 30th, you can find out more about Jake at his website www.jakestigers.com.

We shot a pile of other Jake Stigers footage over a couple of years we'll probably do something with one day, in the mean time check out this little gem of a solo from guitarist Nunzio Signore with due respect to the other Velvet Roots for a typically exceptional band performance.

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