Salad Days
12/19 @ AFI in Silver Spring
Tickets on sale now
http://afi.com/silver/films/events.aspx#saladSALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON, DC (1980-1990)
Washington, DC, area premiere!
In person: filmmaker Scott Crawford
This documentary film examines the early DIY punk scene in the nation's capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi and others released their own records and booked their own shows?without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry's subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC's original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.
DIR/SCR/PROD Scott Crawford; PROD Jim Saah. US, 2014, color, 95 min. NOT RATED