DOCUMENTARIES DIRECTED BY GUY BENOIT

Guitar #1711 is produced, written and directed by Providence-based filmmaker Guy Benoit, about the guitar making craft of Pawtucket-based luthier Otto D’Ambrosio. The film is an intimate and lyrical portrait of the artistic process, as Benoit follows D’Ambrosio through the construction—start to finish-- of an acoustic archtop guitar, hand made for renowned jazz guitarist and Berklee College of Music Instructor Julian Lage (Gary Burton Band, Nels Cline, Jim Hall). The film culminates with a live concert performance by Lage, playing guitar #1711.