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Producer: Tom Petty Somewhere You Feel Free. Director Mary Wharton is an award-winning storyteller with a passion for music and the stories that connect us all to the power of music. She won a Grammy® Award for her first feature documentary, "Sam Cooke: Legend," and her most recent film, "Tom Petty Somewhere You Feel Free" won the top Audience ...
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Nov 10, 2021 · “He was blowing up every aspect of his life,” said Mary Wharton, who directed a new documentary set in that dense era, titled Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers.
Apr 10, 2024 · Using newly discovered archival footage from the mid-1990s, Wharton explores the making of rock star Tom Petty’s seminal 1994 album Wildflowers, interviewing collaborators such as producer Rick Rubin, family members like daughter Adria, and members of his longtime band, The Heartbreakers.
Mar 20, 2021 · Florida Filmmaker Mary Wharton on her new Tom Petty Film. Wharton's film Somewhere You Feel Free , which premiered this week at SXSW, draws on her personal connections to Petty and lost footage of him during the making of his Wildflowers album. SHARE IF YOU ENJOYED IT. Tom Petty and producer Rick Rubin working together on the Wildflowers album.
Nov 11, 2021 · “A Beautiful Life Lesson”: Director Mary Wharton on ‘Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers’. Dean Budnick on November 11, 2021. “This really came to me at the right...
Read our interview with director Mary Wharton, an award-winning filmmaker who has dedicated her career to making music documentaries. Somewhere You Feel Free world premiered on Thursday, March 17 at SXSW Online and was the 2021 SXSW Film Festival’s Centerpiece headliner.
Mar 17, 2021 · Director Mary Wharton says the album came about during a pivotal moment in Petty’s life. “He was about 40 at that time and he was kind of realizing that there were things about his life that...
