Sound Unseen, the music documentary festival held in Minneapolis, is returning with a slew of rock docs including Alison Ellwood’s Cyndi Lauper film Let the Canary Sing and the North American premiere of Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin about the Libertines co-founder.
The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.
Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”
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The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.
Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”
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- 10/4/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
"The Punk Singer" (2013)Certain to satisfy feminists, music fans and moshers alike, "The Punk Singer" gives the seminal frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre her day, chronicling the revolutionary misfit Kathleen Hanna whose musical projects, poetry and activism helped to kickstart the Riot Grrrl movement. Helmed by first-time feature director Sini Anderson, the film features interviews with many popular musicians and feminist figures, including Kim Gordon and Tavi Gevinson, and follows Hanna's career from her beginnings as a spoken word poet to full-blown rock star. From her work with Le Tigre and Bikini Kill to her solo project Julie Ruin, "The Punk Singer" provides an intimate look at Hanna's troubled childhood and medical complications amongst the start of the Riot Grrrl movement. Featuring healthy doses of live performance footage from the vocal powerhouse and insight into Hanna's life beyond her musical works, "The Punk Singer" is an...
- 11/25/2015
- by Aubrey Page
- Indiewire
★★★★☆"I'm gonna finish my fuckin' symphony." That powerful phrase comes up as Kathleen Hanna recalls a musician friend's defiant reaction to a hideous assault in college. It's also a perfect encapsulation of the spirit of The Punk Singer (2013), Sini Anderson's scrappy, vital documentary on Hanna, the fiery frontwoman of seminal nineties punk band Bikini Kill and, later, Le Tigre. The film positions Hanna as a countercultural linchpin, around whom a new artistic movement formed. Through Anderson's lenses, the singer becomes the urtext of riot grrrl; a perfect embodiment of the faction's rough Diy aesthetics and propulsive feminist rhetoric. Anderson brilliantly captures this delicate balance of disparate drives.
- 6/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
A fantastic introduction to original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna and her groundbreaking work in music, feminism, and all-around kickass awesomeness. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I can’t believe I’d never heard of Kathleen Hanna before, but then again, punk music was never my thing. Now, she’s my new hero. The Punk Singer, the first feature from documentarian Sini Anderson, is a fantastic introduction to Hanna and her groundbreaking work in music, feminism, and all-around kickass awesomeness in which, it seems, she simply cannot help but be a leader and an inspiration even beyond her circle of enthusiastic fans. In the late 1980s in the Pacific Northwest, she smashed frustrating barriers on the pre-grunge punk scene with her band Bikini Kill, which not only raged in their music against all the crap...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I can’t believe I’d never heard of Kathleen Hanna before, but then again, punk music was never my thing. Now, she’s my new hero. The Punk Singer, the first feature from documentarian Sini Anderson, is a fantastic introduction to Hanna and her groundbreaking work in music, feminism, and all-around kickass awesomeness in which, it seems, she simply cannot help but be a leader and an inspiration even beyond her circle of enthusiastic fans. In the late 1980s in the Pacific Northwest, she smashed frustrating barriers on the pre-grunge punk scene with her band Bikini Kill, which not only raged in their music against all the crap...
- 5/23/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A firm contender for documentary of the year, The Punk Singer, the directorial debut from director Sini Anderson is as immensely enjoyable as it is vital. Anderson focuses on the Riot grrl movement in the early ‘90’s, and perfectly captures the spirit of the women who charged into battle, declaring war on all that is misogynist and unjust. The film is a mixture of talking heads, stills and archive footage of the era. Is it original in it’s format? Not one bit, but that doesn’t matter one iota, because Anderson has absolutely hit the nail on the head in terms of style. The film is punky, sometimes funny, always angry – it’s how a film about the scene should be made. And of course, there’s girl of the moment (well, in the ‘90’s), Kathleen Hanna.
The film comes about at a time where in our culture, identifying...
The film comes about at a time where in our culture, identifying...
- 5/22/2014
- by Nia Childs
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tonislav Hristov’s Love & Engineering is to open the 20th edition of the Visions du Réel documentary film festival.
The film about a Bulgarian computer engineer searching for a formula to create irresistible seductive power for four desperate digital geeks searching for analogue love will open this year’s festival in Nyon, Switzerland tomorrow (April 24). The festival runs from April 25 to May 3.
The German-Finnish-Bulgarian co-production won the Audience Award at DocPoint Helsinki and is set to be screened at Hot Docs Toronto and the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
Nyon’s 2014 edition will see the festival celebrating two anniversaries: in 1969, the Festival international de cinéma Nyon was founded by the later Berlinale director Moritz de Hadeln, and the name change to Visions du Réel was taken by present artistic director Luciano Barisone’s predecessor Jean Perret in 1995
19 feature-length documentaries from 17 countries in the festival’s main competition will be judged by an International Jury comprising UK producer...
The film about a Bulgarian computer engineer searching for a formula to create irresistible seductive power for four desperate digital geeks searching for analogue love will open this year’s festival in Nyon, Switzerland tomorrow (April 24). The festival runs from April 25 to May 3.
The German-Finnish-Bulgarian co-production won the Audience Award at DocPoint Helsinki and is set to be screened at Hot Docs Toronto and the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
Nyon’s 2014 edition will see the festival celebrating two anniversaries: in 1969, the Festival international de cinéma Nyon was founded by the later Berlinale director Moritz de Hadeln, and the name change to Visions du Réel was taken by present artistic director Luciano Barisone’s predecessor Jean Perret in 1995
19 feature-length documentaries from 17 countries in the festival’s main competition will be judged by an International Jury comprising UK producer...
- 4/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Sini Anderson’s documentary [pictured] about front woman Kathleen Hanna to be released in May.
Dogwoof has acquired UK rights to The Punk Singer.
Sini Anderson’s documentary about the Bikini Kill and Le Tigre front woman Kathleen Hanna is set for a UK theatrical release in May.
The deal was brokered by Oli Harbottle, head of distribution at Dogwoof, and Salma Abdalla, managing director for Autlook Films, on behalf of international sales agent Films Transit.
Harbottle commented: “We’ve very much looking forward to releasing The Punk Singer alongside Kathleen Hanna’s return to the UK with The Julie Ruin tour in late May - the film’s documenting of this remarkable woman and the Riot Grrrl scene will no doubt go on to inspire a whole new audience in addition to the existing fanbase.”
“Dogwoof is the perfect match, they are experienced with pulsating music films and at the same time, they know how...
Dogwoof has acquired UK rights to The Punk Singer.
Sini Anderson’s documentary about the Bikini Kill and Le Tigre front woman Kathleen Hanna is set for a UK theatrical release in May.
The deal was brokered by Oli Harbottle, head of distribution at Dogwoof, and Salma Abdalla, managing director for Autlook Films, on behalf of international sales agent Films Transit.
Harbottle commented: “We’ve very much looking forward to releasing The Punk Singer alongside Kathleen Hanna’s return to the UK with The Julie Ruin tour in late May - the film’s documenting of this remarkable woman and the Riot Grrrl scene will no doubt go on to inspire a whole new audience in addition to the existing fanbase.”
“Dogwoof is the perfect match, they are experienced with pulsating music films and at the same time, they know how...
- 2/10/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Shorts starring Sally Hawkins and Maxine Peake among those in the line-up.
Sini Anderson’s feature documentary The Punk Singer, about Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, is to open the 11th London Short Film Festival (Jan 10-19). The opening night is presented in associated with Birds Eye View.
There will be a record 32 programmes of new short films in this year’s Lsff selected from open submission entries.
They include the opening night selection Funny Sh*t which will feature work ranging from Benjamin Bee’s one-minute Orange Charlie to Rémy Bazerque’s 15-minute Have You Seen Napoleon?.
Regular programmes include Femmes Fantastique featuring Mat Kirby’s The Phone Call starring Sally Hawkins, and Douglas King’s Let’s Go Swimming, starring Josie Long.
Lo-Budget Mayhem will see 29 inventive works in the running for the Lomography Award, and Global Stories will present British filmmakers illuminating the world in works that will include Karen Martinez...
Sini Anderson’s feature documentary The Punk Singer, about Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, is to open the 11th London Short Film Festival (Jan 10-19). The opening night is presented in associated with Birds Eye View.
There will be a record 32 programmes of new short films in this year’s Lsff selected from open submission entries.
They include the opening night selection Funny Sh*t which will feature work ranging from Benjamin Bee’s one-minute Orange Charlie to Rémy Bazerque’s 15-minute Have You Seen Napoleon?.
Regular programmes include Femmes Fantastique featuring Mat Kirby’s The Phone Call starring Sally Hawkins, and Douglas King’s Let’s Go Swimming, starring Josie Long.
Lo-Budget Mayhem will see 29 inventive works in the running for the Lomography Award, and Global Stories will present British filmmakers illuminating the world in works that will include Karen Martinez...
- 12/17/2013
- by tuttlouise@gmail.com (Louise Tutt)
- ScreenDaily
The Punk Singer
Directed by Sini Anderson
USA, 2013
There are an abundance of fascinating stories to be told in the new documentary The Punk Singer: the evolution of feminist punk rock in the 1990s, the inspiration that Bikini Kill lead singer Kathleen Hanna created among her fellow musicians as well as young women looking up to her as a role model, and the dramatic shift in Hanna’s life once she was diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease. This should be a boon to the film—better to have too many stories to tell in a feature documentary than not enough—but ends up making the venture mildly frustrating for not being able to deeply explore all potential avenues.
Hanna’s career, as detailed by director Sini Anderson, has spanned a couple of decades and many generational shifts. Though hers may not be a household name, she’s arguably a...
Directed by Sini Anderson
USA, 2013
There are an abundance of fascinating stories to be told in the new documentary The Punk Singer: the evolution of feminist punk rock in the 1990s, the inspiration that Bikini Kill lead singer Kathleen Hanna created among her fellow musicians as well as young women looking up to her as a role model, and the dramatic shift in Hanna’s life once she was diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease. This should be a boon to the film—better to have too many stories to tell in a feature documentary than not enough—but ends up making the venture mildly frustrating for not being able to deeply explore all potential avenues.
Hanna’s career, as detailed by director Sini Anderson, has spanned a couple of decades and many generational shifts. Though hers may not be a household name, she’s arguably a...
- 12/13/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
For many, Kathleen Hanna — frontwoman for the bands Bikini Kill and later Le Tigre — was the defining protopunk, feminist icon of the Clinton and W. eras. A centrifugal force whose career spans the entire era in which the genre folks used to call Alternative Rock grew and waned in popularity, this riot grrrl mysteriously left the public eye in the mid aughts without any explanation. In The Punk Singer directed by Sini Anderson, a friend of Ms. Hanna’s, and produced by the music video auteur and CB4 director Tamra Davis, she reemerges from the shadows of semi-retirement. The film […]...
- 11/30/2013
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
For many, Kathleen Hanna — frontwoman for the bands Bikini Kill and later Le Tigre — was the defining protopunk, feminist icon of the Clinton and W. eras. A centrifugal force whose career spans the entire era in which the genre folks used to call Alternative Rock grew and waned in popularity, this riot grrrl mysteriously left the public eye in the mid aughts without any explanation. In The Punk Singer directed by Sini Anderson, a friend of Ms. Hanna’s, and produced by the music video auteur and CB4 director Tamra Davis, she reemerges from the shadows of semi-retirement. The film […]...
- 11/30/2013
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The age of the riot grrrls entered like a screaming woman and exited like a cooing teen. The woman was Kathleen Hanna, the Bikini Kill frontwoman who kicked boys out of her mosh pits and insisted, "I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck." The teen was Britney Spears, who famously invited her baby to hit her one more time. And the eight years between their eras — 1991 to 1999 — were a glorious time in modern music history for girls who rallied behind Hanna as she dared them to start a revolution.
Still, Hanna and Spears had a few things in common: kiddie barrettes, baby tees, little girl skirts. But as Sini Anderson, director of the Dr. Martens-stomping doc The Punk Singer, points out, third-wave feminists like Hann...
Still, Hanna and Spears had a few things in common: kiddie barrettes, baby tees, little girl skirts. But as Sini Anderson, director of the Dr. Martens-stomping doc The Punk Singer, points out, third-wave feminists like Hann...
- 11/28/2013
- Village Voice
The Punk Singer starring Kathleen Hanna offers an intimate biographical portrait of the feminist art-punk icon, from her scrappy beginnings in Olympia, Washington, to the formation of Bikini Kill, the launch of the Riot Grrrl movement, Le Tigre and her latest band, the Julie Ruin. The film, which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles, also steps inside her life with husband (and Beastie Boy) Adam Horovitz, as an ongoing struggle with late-stage Lyme disease forced her to step away from Le Tigre and go into treatment.
With interviews from Carrie Brownstein,...
With interviews from Carrie Brownstein,...
- 11/27/2013
- by Katie Van Syckle
- Rollingstone.com
Making its debut in limited theatrical release and VOD on Friday, November 29 is "The Punk Singer," Sini Anderson's film about riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna, the front woman of Bikini Kill who went on to make music with Le Tigre and her current band The Julie Ruin. In the nineties, Bikini Kill was one of the brightest stars in the riot grrrl movement, known for their fuck you attitude, vibrant self-made media culture, and criticism of the macho culture that surrounded them. As a film, "The Punk Singer" goes to great lengths to contextualize the movement Hanna was a part of, the influence it had on music and women's culture then and today, and brings us up to date to Kathleen's contemporary every day concerns, including her battle with Lyme Disease. We spoke to Hanna and Anderson in separate interviews about the film. First up, Kathleen Hanna: The...
- 11/26/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
New Release
Homefront
R, 1 Hr., 40 Mins.
Jason Statham fans are a pretty forgiving bunch. After all, the chromedomed Cockney killing machine doesn’t usually share the screen with costars who can do more than grunt. But in his latest knuckle-scraping revenge fantasy (scripted by Sylvester Stallone!), he goes head-to-head with James Franco and Winona Ryder as a bonkers, meth-dealing Bonnie and Clyde. An action flick that knows exactly what it wants to be and delivers the goods. B- —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
Bettie Page Reveals All
R, 1 Hr., 41 Mins.
There have been several good documentaries about Bettie Page, the ’50s...
Homefront
R, 1 Hr., 40 Mins.
Jason Statham fans are a pretty forgiving bunch. After all, the chromedomed Cockney killing machine doesn’t usually share the screen with costars who can do more than grunt. But in his latest knuckle-scraping revenge fantasy (scripted by Sylvester Stallone!), he goes head-to-head with James Franco and Winona Ryder as a bonkers, meth-dealing Bonnie and Clyde. An action flick that knows exactly what it wants to be and delivers the goods. B- —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
Bettie Page Reveals All
R, 1 Hr., 41 Mins.
There have been several good documentaries about Bettie Page, the ’50s...
- 11/26/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
With this freshly remastered edition of "DVD Is the New Vinyl," another format war has been fought and won. But rather than the skirmish between Blu-ray and HD DVD (remember that one?) or VHS and Betamax (now we're really dating ourselves), the podcast has trumped the listicle, two words that weren't even around a decade ago. Beginning now and once a month, your somewhat humble video-store proprietor will be chatting with a trio of renowned guests about the grooviest new DVD and Blu-ray releases. Listen up! Podcast Intro Music: VHS or Beta, "Bring on the Comets" Special Guest #1: Kathleen Hanna on "Night of the Comet" Intro Music: The Julie Ruin, "Cookie Road" Kathleen Hanna is a feminist activist, punk icon (best known as the singer/songwriter of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and the Julie Ruin), and the subject of Sini Anderson's terrific new documentary "The Punk Singer," releasing...
- 11/25/2013
- by Aaron Hillis
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Autlook to work with Films Transit on selling London Film Festival title The Punk Singer.
Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook is to handle worldwide theatrical, festivals, digital and “all rights” deals for Sini Anderson’s punk rock documentary The Punk Singer.
Autlook will co-represent the doc with Quebec-based Films Transit - part of an ongoing deal - for all rights outside North America.
The film received its world premiere at this year’s SXSW and profiles outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna, singer with Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews.
The doc will have its European premiere this week [Oct 13] at the BFI London Film Festival, where Autlook CEO Peter Jager will be present during the Buyers and Sellers Screenings.
Films Transit president Jan Röfekamp said: “The Riot Grrrl Movement continues to be an important subject and we think there is a wide audience for this film.”
Sundance Selects...
Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook is to handle worldwide theatrical, festivals, digital and “all rights” deals for Sini Anderson’s punk rock documentary The Punk Singer.
Autlook will co-represent the doc with Quebec-based Films Transit - part of an ongoing deal - for all rights outside North America.
The film received its world premiere at this year’s SXSW and profiles outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna, singer with Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews.
The doc will have its European premiere this week [Oct 13] at the BFI London Film Festival, where Autlook CEO Peter Jager will be present during the Buyers and Sellers Screenings.
Films Transit president Jan Röfekamp said: “The Riot Grrrl Movement continues to be an important subject and we think there is a wide audience for this film.”
Sundance Selects...
- 10/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 5th annual Oakland Underground Film Festival, which runs this year on Sept. 25-29, features their usual mix of socially and politically relevant films, challenging genre fare and loads of short films.
The fest opens on the 25th with two provocative documentaries. First up is Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Citizen Koch, which shines a spotlight on the behind-the-scenes machinations of the billionaire Koch brothers who have greatly influenced modern politics. (Citizen Koch is also screening for free, which you can RSVP for on the Oakuff website.) Also on the 25th is a profile of Riot Grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna in The Punk Singer, directed by Sini Anderson.
Other films in the fest include the martial arts action romp Death Grip by Eric Jacobius; the anti-bullying drama The Dirties by Matt Johnson; the quirky family shenanigans of Toastmaster by Eric Boadella; and the Closing Night lyrical documentary about life on the U.
The fest opens on the 25th with two provocative documentaries. First up is Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Citizen Koch, which shines a spotlight on the behind-the-scenes machinations of the billionaire Koch brothers who have greatly influenced modern politics. (Citizen Koch is also screening for free, which you can RSVP for on the Oakuff website.) Also on the 25th is a profile of Riot Grrrl icon Kathleen Hanna in The Punk Singer, directed by Sini Anderson.
Other films in the fest include the martial arts action romp Death Grip by Eric Jacobius; the anti-bullying drama The Dirties by Matt Johnson; the quirky family shenanigans of Toastmaster by Eric Boadella; and the Closing Night lyrical documentary about life on the U.
- 9/24/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 57th BFI London Film Festival line-up has officially been revealed, and it is led by a slew of incredibly promising films, many of which have already been buzzing on the festival circuit, and a number of which will be making their debuts here in London.
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Riot Grrrl founder Kathleen Hanna never intended to be the subject of a feature-length film. She just wanted a concert documentary.
But Sini Anderson, Hanna’s close friend and the eventual director of The Punk Singer, pushed for more. “I thought it was a really good time for people to know not just about Le Tigre, but about her story,” Anderson told EW of the lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. “I think that was a terrifying idea for Kathleen.” She eventually came on board and what resulted is an intimate portrait of Hanna at the center of...
But Sini Anderson, Hanna’s close friend and the eventual director of The Punk Singer, pushed for more. “I thought it was a really good time for people to know not just about Le Tigre, but about her story,” Anderson told EW of the lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. “I think that was a terrifying idea for Kathleen.” She eventually came on board and what resulted is an intimate portrait of Hanna at the center of...
- 9/3/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Company to release Sini Anderson’s punk rock documentary [pictured] later this year.
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Sini Anderson’s The Punk Singer.
Anderson’s punk rock documentary world premiered at this year’s SXSW and profiles outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna.
The deal was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman, director of acquisitions and productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Cinetic Media and Linda Lichter on behalf of the filmmakers.
Sundance Selects is planning a fall 2013 release.
Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, commented: “The Punk Singer is one of those great documentaries that makes you realise how much a single person can accomplish in a short span of time.
“We look forward to bringing the film to the multitude of Kathleen’s fans, as well as a broad audience.”
The Punk Singer was edited by Bo Mehrad and Jessica Hernandez, and was...
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Sini Anderson’s The Punk Singer.
Anderson’s punk rock documentary world premiered at this year’s SXSW and profiles outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna.
The deal was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman, director of acquisitions and productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Cinetic Media and Linda Lichter on behalf of the filmmakers.
Sundance Selects is planning a fall 2013 release.
Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, commented: “The Punk Singer is one of those great documentaries that makes you realise how much a single person can accomplish in a short span of time.
“We look forward to bringing the film to the multitude of Kathleen’s fans, as well as a broad audience.”
The Punk Singer was edited by Bo Mehrad and Jessica Hernandez, and was...
- 6/24/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Company to release Sini Anderson’s punk rock documentary [pictured] later this year.
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Sini Anderson’s The Punk Singer.
Anderson’s punk rock documentary world premiered at this year’s SXSW and profiles outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna.
The deal was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman, director of acquisitions and productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Cinetic Media and Linda Lichter on behalf of the filmmakers.
Sundance Selects is planning a fall 2013 release.
Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, commented: “The Punk Singer is one of those great documentaries that makes you realise how much a single person can accomplish in a short span of time.
“We look forward to bringing the film to the multitude of Kathleen’s fans, as well as a broad audience.”
The Punk Singer was edited by Bo Mehrad and Jessica Hernandez, and was...
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Sini Anderson’s The Punk Singer.
Anderson’s punk rock documentary world premiered at this year’s SXSW and profiles outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna.
The deal was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman, director of acquisitions and productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Cinetic Media and Linda Lichter on behalf of the filmmakers.
Sundance Selects is planning a fall 2013 release.
Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, commented: “The Punk Singer is one of those great documentaries that makes you realise how much a single person can accomplish in a short span of time.
“We look forward to bringing the film to the multitude of Kathleen’s fans, as well as a broad audience.”
The Punk Singer was edited by Bo Mehrad and Jessica Hernandez, and was...
- 6/24/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to The Punk Singer, the Sini Anderson-directed punk rock docu. The film covers the 20-year journey of outspoken feminist icon Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre. She rose to national attention as the voice of the riot grrrl movement, but when she stopped shouting, many wondered why. Tamra Davis, Gwen Bialic, Rachel Dengiz and Erin Owens are the producers. The film made its world premiere at the 2013 SXSW, and Sundance Selects plans a fall release. Related: Sundance Selects Lines Up Docu ‘Dancing In Jaffa’ “The Punk Singer is one of those great documentaries that makes you realize how much a single person can accomplish in a short span of time,” said Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films. “From her pioneering riot grrrl music as the frontwoman for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre...
- 6/24/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Emir Baigazin’s Harmony Lessons won the 39th Seattle International Film Festival’s Best New Director grand jury prize on Sunday [9] as top brass handed out jury and audience awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
- 6/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Good god, watching “The Punk Singer,” Sini Anderson’s new documentary about Kathleen Hanna, makes me feel like I’m 16. This movie brings back vivid memories of mail ordering seven-inches I read about in crappy photocopied zines that I picked up at basement shows, sending a few carefully concealed bills, hoping I’d actually get one of those records that changed my life every couple of months. There were more than a few times where a random package arrived in the mailbox and it was a record I sent for six or eight months earlier and completely forgot about. Groups of us sat for hours in one or another of our bedrooms, annoying the shit out of anyone else in the house, making endless mix tapes of each other’s records. That’s what “The Punk Singer” calls to mind. It was one of these brown paper packages—sorry Julie Andrews,...
- 6/5/2013
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
The Punk Singer
Directed by Sini Anderson
USA, 2013
One of the most energetic and iconoclastic aesthetic/political movements in the history of popular expression, 1970s punk nevertheless left many long-entrenched attitudes virtually undisturbed by its vitriolic passage. In some ways, the arrival of the hyper-aggressive “mosh pit” during the 1980s may even have exacerbated certain misogynist tendencies within the culture by recklessly detonating masculine anger at punk/hardcore clubs around the world. Idealized as seething cauldrons of rebellion that would help to boil off the excrescences of an unjust social order, these shows often wound up replicating the worst power dynamics the larger society had on tap – as many female punks who got burned in the process can testify. Clearly, someone needed to step up – not just onto the stage (which had been done), but on behalf of every single woman in the audience. The Punk Singer creates an extraordinarily...
Directed by Sini Anderson
USA, 2013
One of the most energetic and iconoclastic aesthetic/political movements in the history of popular expression, 1970s punk nevertheless left many long-entrenched attitudes virtually undisturbed by its vitriolic passage. In some ways, the arrival of the hyper-aggressive “mosh pit” during the 1980s may even have exacerbated certain misogynist tendencies within the culture by recklessly detonating masculine anger at punk/hardcore clubs around the world. Idealized as seething cauldrons of rebellion that would help to boil off the excrescences of an unjust social order, these shows often wound up replicating the worst power dynamics the larger society had on tap – as many female punks who got burned in the process can testify. Clearly, someone needed to step up – not just onto the stage (which had been done), but on behalf of every single woman in the audience. The Punk Singer creates an extraordinarily...
- 4/30/2013
- by David Fiore
- SoundOnSight
Hot Docs 2013 is just a week away – and Sound on Sight will be providing extensive coverage of the festival this year. Readers can expect a barrage of reviews – beginning well in advance of the event itself and carrying forward until the final showing on May 5th – so interested parties should definitely bookmark the link to our Hot Docs round-up.
After spending many happy hours in consultation with the Official Schedule, we are proud to present our list of the ten most highly anticipated docs on the docket. All of these films (and several more in the bargain) will be discussed at Sound on Sight over the course of the next few weeks. We hope you’ll join us! (And please feel free to let us know which films you’d like to see reviewed.)
(in alphabetical order)
Blackfish
Screenings: Apr 30 (7 pm), May 2 (2 pm) and May 3 (9:15 pm)
Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s...
After spending many happy hours in consultation with the Official Schedule, we are proud to present our list of the ten most highly anticipated docs on the docket. All of these films (and several more in the bargain) will be discussed at Sound on Sight over the course of the next few weeks. We hope you’ll join us! (And please feel free to let us know which films you’d like to see reviewed.)
(in alphabetical order)
Blackfish
Screenings: Apr 30 (7 pm), May 2 (2 pm) and May 3 (9:15 pm)
Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s...
- 4/17/2013
- by David Fiore
- SoundOnSight
"I'm the girl you can't shut up,"Kathleen Hanna tells me over the phone quoting from her song in "The Middle Of The Night In My House."
The lead singer of iconic female punk rock group, Bikini Kill, and the dance-pop trio Le Tigre, says in-your-face feminism is ever-present today in the wake of her biographical documentary, "The Punk Singer," which premiered earlier this month at SXSW.
In her first feature-length directorial debut, Sini Anderson captures the leader behind the boisterous voice. The film goes deep inside the minds behind the movement with more than 20 years of incredible archival footage and intimate interviews with those closest to Hanna and Riot Grrrl, including her husband and Beastie Boys' member Adam Horovitz, Le Tigre's Johanna Fateman and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.
The film’s debut may have come at just the perfect time, too.
“I think feminism comes in 20 year waves,...
The lead singer of iconic female punk rock group, Bikini Kill, and the dance-pop trio Le Tigre, says in-your-face feminism is ever-present today in the wake of her biographical documentary, "The Punk Singer," which premiered earlier this month at SXSW.
In her first feature-length directorial debut, Sini Anderson captures the leader behind the boisterous voice. The film goes deep inside the minds behind the movement with more than 20 years of incredible archival footage and intimate interviews with those closest to Hanna and Riot Grrrl, including her husband and Beastie Boys' member Adam Horovitz, Le Tigre's Johanna Fateman and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.
The film’s debut may have come at just the perfect time, too.
“I think feminism comes in 20 year waves,...
- 3/22/2013
- by Emily Thomas
- Huffington Post
For some 15 years, feminist punk rocker Kathleen Hanna carried the torch of a movement seemingly defined by her furious investment in the cause and the artistry that brought it to national attention. As the energetic frontwoman for Bikini Kill throughout the nineties, followed by the hugely popular dance group Le Tigre, Hanna was an unstoppable presence both onstage and off. Her impact is effectively explored in Sini Anderson's documentary portrait "The Punk Singer," which relies on interviews and robust footage from over the years to create an involving look at Hanna's determination -- as well as the forces that nearly toppled it. Realized mainly with a grungy lo-fi video aesthetic, "The Punk Singer" begins with the early stirrings of Hanna's artistry in the Olympia, Washington music scene in the late 1980's, moving swiftly along with her snazzy rhythms and angry vocals as its built-in soundtrack. Chief interviewee Hanna provides...
- 3/12/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Punk Singer, Sini Anderson’s intimate, invigorating portrait of Riot grrrl founder and former Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, world premiered at SXSW this week and it’s the film I can’t stop thinking about. In it, Hanna reveals for the first time that she dropped out of the music scene after being stricken low by Lyme Disease, a diagnosis that took six long, hard years for doctors to make. At its terrifying peak her illness robbed Hanna of that raw belt of a singing voice and she worried she’d soon be bound to a wheelchair.
- 3/12/2013
- by Karen Valby
- EW - Inside Movies
The sweetly screaming figure with the word Slut written prominently on her midriff has just grabbed an audience by the ears. As the last clash of cymbals falls, she tells the girls to come to the front to get away from the violently moshing boys. She then launches into the next hook-blooming, distortion happy song with a look of tortured bliss on her face. This is Kathleen Hanna, the songwriter and singer for Bikini Kill. She’s the one making all the noise. She’s also the subject of the new documentary The Punk Singer, which sees director Sini Anderson exploring the art, fame and activism of a proud feminist icon who had bigger balls than many of her male counterparts. Hanna’s story is definitely noteworthy and her charisma, the brand that entranced thousands of fans at live shows and political rallies, is still intense as she takes us through her beginnings as a visual artist...
- 3/11/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The South by Southwest Film Festival kicks off this Friday evening, March 8 in Austin, TX. The opening night festivities include a double feature of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, with stars Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, and Olivia Wilde on hand to welcome movie lovers to the venerable Paramount Theater, and the highly anticipated remake of the 1981 cult horror classic Evil Dead. The nine-day festival will celebrate 133 films, from the Us premiere of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, in which former Disney stars run amok, to the world premiere of I Am Divine, Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary about the legendary drag queen.
- 3/7/2013
- by Karen Valby
- EW - Inside Movies
Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox have been friends since the two played in Bikini Kill, the riot grrl band that took the '90s by storm. Twenty years later, the two play together in The Julie Ruin, and are currently recording an eagerly anticipated album with James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem.
Because we've had a longstanding musical love affair with Hanna and Wilcox since the days when they wore t-shirts as skirts, we decided to test their mettle and play the Friendship Game with them (despite the fact that our interviewing skills rival Ricky Bobby's). In the game, each player has to guess the other's response to a series of questions; the winner receives a prize that proves her devotion to her beloved friend.
Who will win the friendship test, and who will fail, hanging her head in shame? Are Kathleen and Kathi merely two ships passing in the night,...
Because we've had a longstanding musical love affair with Hanna and Wilcox since the days when they wore t-shirts as skirts, we decided to test their mettle and play the Friendship Game with them (despite the fact that our interviewing skills rival Ricky Bobby's). In the game, each player has to guess the other's response to a series of questions; the winner receives a prize that proves her devotion to her beloved friend.
Who will win the friendship test, and who will fail, hanging her head in shame? Are Kathleen and Kathi merely two ships passing in the night,...
- 3/7/2013
- by Kathleen Massara
- Huffington Post
Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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