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A special documentary screening of Fear of Heights at Visions Video. In 1983, film student Rich Murray was handed $20,000 in a brown paper bag by a hustler named 'Butch.' These were the funds he used to direct his first music video for a local Philly rocker named Alan Mann. That video for the song “Christmas on the Block” went on to become the first and perhaps only video by an unsigned artist to play on regular rotation on MTV.

Using “Christmas on the Block” as a framing device, Murray illuminates Mann’s larger story - and how he could have, should of and almost did make it, but didn’t because of his excesses, and a tragic accidental death. The film also turns the lens sharply on the film’s director (Murray) and how his own excesses might have resulted in the same tragic trajectory, that but for wisdom and luck, did not.

Best known as the director of mega hit clips for 90's MTV icons Kris Kross and Spin Doctors, Rich Murray directed over 100 music videos on the way to becoming one of the most prolific directors during the classic music video era.

Murray's feature film directing debut, Snipes, starring Zoe Saldana, Nelly and Dean Winters premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival and subsequently won the Festival of Independents at the 2002 Philadelphia International Film Festival.

Murray has numerous other feature film credits as both a producer and assistant director and has been a member of the Director's Guild of America since 1988.

Trailer for Fear of Heights by Rich Murray