Split Screen

Split Screen

11 Seasons

Your wild ride through the indie film world—by filmmakers, for everyone. From 1997 to 2001, producer and author John Pierson and his band of cinephiles roved the U.S. seeking pockets of movie madness, for this irreverent sixty-episode series.

Split Screen
  • John Pierson introduces SPLIT SCREEN Season Three

    Episode 1

  • Split Screen: S3-E1 The Blair Witch: I Want to Believe

    Episode 2

    Sam Saldivar no-budget sci-fi thriller THE GIANT KILLER; one minute films loops with Gustav Deutsch at Windsor, ON’s Kinnotek Cinema; looking for the mysterious “Lady In Red” at Slamdance ’97; revisiting the Blair Witch—a look at the footage found in the muddy duffel bag. Original airdate 04/06/1998

  • Split Screen: S3-E2 John Wayne’s Hairpiece

    Episode 3

    SPLIT SCREEN hits the road! Making a film vs. running the NYC Marathon; visiting IFFCON to talk indie film financing; John Wayne’s Hairpiece and other cinema treasures at the Smithsonian Institution in D.C.; filmmakers Doug Stone and P.H. O’Brien and Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty go looking for th...

  • Split Screen: S3-E3 Grizzly Walks, Orson Talks

    Episode 4

    “The Illusion and Reality” episode: Dan Myrick visits musician/filmmaker Billy Yeager in a Purple Haze in Hollywood, FL; movie VHS bootleggers in NYC; building a grizzly bear proof suit—Doug Stone and PH O’Brien visit Canadian director Peter Lynch; War of the Words—an infamous Orson Welles commer...

  • Split Screen: S3-E4 Carl Franklin Breaks it Down

    Episode 5

    Self-distributing a documentary about talking to elementary school kids about gay issues; Filming in Charleston, SC, from Civil War pictures to slavery era epics; a visit with director Carl Franklin (ONE FALSE MOVE); Jacob Young’s ongoing project about broken down cars on the side of the road in ...

  • Split Screen: S3-E5 THE TIN DRUM: Banned in OK

    Episode 6

    Reason to Believe” booking a film on college campuses with secret agent: Tedd Stuart; a visit with Bart Weiss, director of the Dallas Video Festival; surveillance video turned into experimental films; THE TIN DRUM— Tim DePaepe investigates how this Academy Award winning film was banned in Oklahom...

  • Split Screen: S3-E6 Projections: David Picker

    Episode 7

    Woody, Leone, Bertolucci, Schlesinger, Lester and 007. David Picker enabled them all, and many more, as production head in United Artists’ golden era. In this installment of PROJECTIONS a series of interviews about filmmaking in New York, John speaks one on one with his top choice for All Star au...