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Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. After starting his career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai recorded and toured in Zappa's band for two years, from 1980 to 1982. He began a solo career in 1983, has released eight solo albums and won three Grammy Awards. He has also recorded and toured with Public Image Ltd., Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth and Whitesnake. Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1996. In 1999 Vai started his own record label Favored Nations, intending to showcase as he describes, "...artists that have attained the highest performance level on their chosen instruments."
Vai began playing guitar in 1973, at the age of 13. In 1974, he took guitar lessons from guitarist Joe Satriani and played in local bands, one of which was called "The Steve Vais". He was influenced by guitarists including Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Brian May, Jimmy Page, Glen Buxton, and jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Vai attended the Berklee College of Music, afterwards recording a promotional piece for them in which he spoke about auditioning for Frank Zappa at age 20.
Actors: David Coulson (editor), Robert Gibson (miscellaneous crew), Hera Dunleavy (actress), Kristian Eek (producer), Beulah Koale (actor), Mark Foster (producer), Sam Peacocke (writer), Sam Peacocke (director), Troy Tu'ua (actor), Michael Koloi (actor), Kate Ward-Smythe (actress), Conrad Blight (producer), Daya Tumua-Sao-Mafiti (actor), Ascia Maybury (actor), Eds Tan (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Tara Walker (actress), C.K. Lichenstein II (producer), Vincent Caldoni (actor), Vincent Caldoni (director), Vincent Caldoni (writer), Jeff Mills (actor), Vincent Caldoni (editor), Richard Topping (actor), Susan Spencer (actress), Yona Prost (actress), Deb Blume (miscellaneous crew), Phaedra (actress), Uli Beutter (producer), Uli Beutter (actress), Anna Frazier (actress),
Plot: Vai's parents, Basti and Miora, risked everything to escape their small, war torn country of Otisia and give their unborn child a better life. Now a teenager, Vai has little interest in her people's culture until she finds a box of hidden film revealing raw footage of a German documentary in Otisia, with her parent's as guides. With her friend Katie they begin making their own documentary to try and unravel what happened. This sets off a chain of events that bend the lines between the old world and the new and blur reality from fiction.
Keywords: documentary-filmmaking, documentary-footage, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, friend, immigrant, interview, mother-daughter-relationship, teenage-girl