Bradley Beesley
Bradley Beesley is an American documentary filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer based in Austin, Texas, whose work has been described as a cinematic chronicle of "oddball Americana, strange sub-cultures, and homegrown rock stars." Born in Oklahoma, he began his feature work with the music documentary Hill Stomp Hollar (1999), about Mississippi's Fat Possum blues label. His best-known film, Okie Noodling (2001), portrays the unusual Oklahoma practice of catching catfish bare-handed, scored by The Flaming Lips, with whom Beesley has been associated since their early days; it won the Audience Choice Award at South by Southwest. He followed it with The Fearless Freaks (2005), a long-form portrait of The Flaming Lips, and the bare-knuckle backyard-boxing documentary Dawg Fight, among other features and series.