Gustavo Dudamel Doc ‘Viva Maestro’ Draws Fans Of LA Phil Conductor, David Lynch Buffs Flock to Remastered ‘Inland Empire’ – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comViva Maestro, a documentary starring the charismatic music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, opened on a high note taking in $14,310 on two screens — Film Forum/NYC and The Landmark/LA.
That’s a PTA of $7,155 for the film directed by Ted Braun (Darfur Now, Betting on Zero) and presented by Greenwich Entertainment and Participant Media.
It expands to 40+ theaters next weekend.The doc was #1 at Film Forum and #2 at Landmark (behind A24’s indie smash Everything Everywhere All At Once).The brilliant Dudamel, now in his 13th season atop the LA Phil (and in his inaugural season as music director of the Paris Opera), is only 41 and one of the few conductors who’s a real cultural phenomenon.
He’s been that pretty much since his earliest appointment at age 18 as Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra, comprised of graduates of Venezuela’s famed El Sistema program that provides music training for underprivileged youth.Dudamel had continued to lead the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra as Venezuela was roiled by political and economic unrest.
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