L7 Documentary Screening @ Inspire Theatre – Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival Las Vegas
The documentary, L7: Pretend We’re Dead, will screen this year at Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 26th at 12:30-2PM. A live in person Q&A with the band will follow the screening. The event is free.
Inspire Theatre
107 S. Las Vegas Blvd
Downtown Las Vegas
Fierce, feminist pioneers of American grunge punk, the L7: Pretend We’re Dead documentary was directed by award-winning filmmaker Sarah Price (American Movie, The Yes Men, Summercamp).
Offering particularly revelatory insight into the band’s 16-year career and eventual dissolution in 2001, the film features exclusive interviews with Exene Cervenka (X), Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Louise Post (Veruca Salt), Joan Jett and more.
L7: Pretend We’re Dead is a culmination of the band’s re-ignited enthusiasm fueled by their fans’ outpouring of encouragement and support on social media when the band hinted at the idea of a documentary in early 2015. Culled from over 100 hours of unearthed vintage home movies taken by the band, never before seen performance footage, and candid interviews, L7: Pretend We’re Dead chronicles the band’s triumphs and failures. It takes viewers on an all access journey into the 1990’s grunge movement that took the world by storm. Charged with lyrics that had political bite and humor which proved irresistible to the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and the punk, they helped define grunge as the genre of a generation.
