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Filmmakers who met
at Hillel Day School
screen film biography
of Larry "Wild Man"
Fischer at Detroit Docs
International Film Festiva
Derailroaded Producer Jeremy Lubin
Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News
Derailroaded Director
Josh Rubin
November 3 2005
eremy Lubin's entry into pro-
fessional filmmaking has a
definite Hollywood twist. The
former Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit student met
the subject of his first documen-
tary while eating alone in a
Hollywood restaurant. .
Lubin was approached by a man
aggressively identifying himself as
Larry "Wild Man" Fischer and
became curious about the man.
That curiosity led to some research
with the help of Josh Rubin, a
friend from Hillel and another
aspiring screenwriter.
The two, who learned about
Fischer's recordings and long battle
with mental illness, worked almost
four years on Derailroaded, a biog-
raphy that will be shown 9 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 5, and 1 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Birmingham
8 Theatre as part of the Detroit
Docs International Film Festival.
The film explains how Fischer,
who is Jewish, advanced his career
with the help of rock star Frank
Zappa, who came up with the
"Wild Man" label.
Lubin and Rubin, both 28, pur-
sued different educational oppor-
tunities after leaving Hillel but
came together in California to pool
their resources. Lubin, a loan offi-
cer for a mortgage company, grad-
uated from Michigan State
University with a communications
major. Rubin, a marketing special-
ist for a production company, stud-
ied film at New York University.
Derailroaded, produced by
Lubin and directed by Rubin, pre-
miered at the 2005 South by
Southwest Film Festival and was
screened at the London Film
Festival. The intensity of working
together on Derailroaded has sent
the two in different directions for
the time being.
Lubin, who lived in Farmington
Hills, and Rubin, who grew up in
Huntington Woods, talked about
their film with the Detroit Jewish
News:
JN: What do you like
about the way the film
turned out?
JL: I think that "Wild Man" Fischer
is an amazing musician with an
amazing life, and I think that we
did justice to him as far as telling
his story. Knowing his history of
unpredictable behavior and para-
noia, I'm pretty amazed we got
through it, and I think it's a big
accomplishment.
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