Rated: NR    Runtime: 95 mins.
June 29, 30 & July 1 at 7:00 & 9:00

"Raw... An outlaw movie about outlaw artists!" -- Peter Rainer, National Public Radio

The highlight of this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival programming includes a feature documentary that is the first of its kind to take a candid look at the renaissance of North America’s underground indierock poster movement. In 2001, the little-known rock poster industry experienced a creative comeback spurred on by the launch of Gigposters.com, a web portal that aims to catalogue rock posters across the globe. Picking up where punk left off, Died Young Stayed Pretty reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial and intensely visceral design work.

Produced by Norotomo Prodcutions, the film follows Yaghoobian as she travels across the United States and Canada to offer a look into to the world of some of the giants of this modern subculture including Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, the Ames Brothers, Print Mafia and Rob Jones, who have worked on posters for groups like Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, White Stripes, The Melvins, Ween, Marylin Manson, Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, Queens of Stone Age, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithfull, The Shins, and the list goes on.

“I’m thrilled to be able to give voice to this close-knit group of DIY artists that are giants within their own world but remain unknown to the mainstream,” said Eileen Yaghoobian. “Stealing from the golden era of Americana, they pervert classic pop culture references and slap it in the face of polite society while safely treading under the radar- picking up pieces of America’s disposable culture and turning them into beautiful obscenities.” Under the guise of advertising for rocks shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen and Xerox machine carry on
public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd inside jokes. Yaghoobian sneaks her camera into the lives of these self-proclaimed professional radicals to discover where the real punk power lies, if any remains.

Director IN PERSON AT ALL SHOWS!

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