Art For Everybody with Miranda Yousef and Ondi Timoner (Ep. 414)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Director Miranda Yousef discusses her new film, Art For Everybody, with fellow director Ondi Timoner in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Yousef discusses working with a vast array of archival material, navigating the true identity of Kinkade through accounts from friends and family, and applying her skills and expertise as an Editor in her debut as a feature-length documentary filmmaker. The film delivers a portrait of Thomas Kinkade, a complex man both celebrated and disparaged for his kitschy art style- and secretly plagued by demons. Following the discovery of a collection of unexpectedly dark paintings, an investigation is launched into the true personality under Kinkade’s façade. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2023/July2023/Art4Everybody_DocSeries_0523.aspx

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0:00.0	I've heard different reasons from different people.
0:02.3	People who are fans or supporters or family or friends of Kincaid would say that he was disliked
0:08.2	because he was so popular.
0:10.5	The critics would say that he is not saying anything with the work, that he is not challenging
0:19.1	anything.
0:20.1	He's not making any comment about art.
0:23.5	What I thought was really interesting was,
0:25.3	I can't remember who it was,
0:26.5	but the person who said,
0:27.8	it was dangerous because there's no room.
0:31.2	For redemption.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:32.7	Yeah. Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:56.5	In this episode, director Miranda Yusef pulls back the layers of painter Thomas Kincaid in Art for Everybody.
1:04.2	Screened as part of the DGA's documentary series, the film delivers a portrait of a complex man,
1:10.2	both celebrated and disparage for his
1:12.3	kitschy art style, and secretly plagued by demons.
1:17.2	Following the discovery of a collection of unexpectedly dark paintings, an investigation
1:22.0	is launched into the true personality under Kincaid's facade.
1:27.0	Art for Everybody is Yusef's documentary feature directorial debut.
1:31.5	She also won the 2008 DGA Student Film Award in the West Coast Women's category for her short
1:37.8	film, Collectibles.
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