MVD Entertainment Group
will be guiding the Blue Hats Creative production of documentary filmmaker
Sarah Price’s tell-all about L7 grunge rockers, L7: Pretend We're Dead,
to market on Friday, Oct. 13, as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
Award-winning
producer/director Sarah Price took up the challenge of L7’s fans and a
self-funded Kickstarter campaign to cull through something like 100 hours worth
of vintage “home movies” (meaning: fan videos and material shot by the various
members of the band) to compile the backbone of the documentary L7:
Pretend We're Dead.
It would be just that, a
collection of this and that from 1985 to 2001 (when the band imploded), but a
funny thing happened on the way to assembling the final product, Price got Donita
Sparks and Suzi Gardner — the band’s founders — back together again after a
14-year breakup.
Next came bassist
Jennifer Finch and drummer Dee Plaka and voilà
L7 is holding reunion concerts and L7: Pretend We're Dead, with the
four talking openly about the past, was now a complete story that was ready to
be told … the finished product even surprised the band members and it will
certainly please the fans.
A limited theatrical
break is planned over the Labor Day weekend.
As to bonus goodies, MVD
Entertainment Group will be including Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic’s 1998
“quasi-documentary,” L7: The Beauty Process, bonus
footage with Faith No More, Fugazi, Helmet and Nirvana and two vintage live
performances — “Pretend We’re Dead” and “Shove” — both performed at Live the
Word in Holland in 1992.
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