Rez Metal (Arizona Premiere)

127 East Congress Street,Tucson AZ 85701

02 October, 2021

Description

Tucson Film & Music Festival 2021 Late Night Film! Arizona Premiere! REZ METAL follows the Navajo heavy metal band I Don't Konform! Tucson Film & Music Festival 2021 Late Night Film! Arizona Premiere!When Kyle Felter, the lead singer of I Don't Konform sent out a demo album to Flemming Rasmussen, the Grammy Award-winner producer of Metallica, they never imagined themselves a few months later rehearsing with Rasmussen inside a hot hogan on a Navajo reservation before recording their debut album at the iconic Sweet Silence Studio in Denmark. While following I Don't Konform's fairy tale journey, our documentary REZ METAL, tells the larger compelling story of the heavy metal scene on Navajo reservations where many youths have grown disaffected as a result of endemic poverty, high rate of suicides, and domestic violence. By exploring different metal bands and their perspectives on music and contemporary life, this documentary will capture the universality of their experience and illustrate the many ways in which heavy metal music engages disenfranchised Navajo youth in constructive anger to effect positive change as well as to cope with personal tragedy. Rez Metal (Arizona Premiere)Directed by Ashkan Soltani StoneAKS MediaUSA+DK/2021/75 minhttps://rezmetaldoc.com/ The Tucson Film & Music Festival (aka TFMF or Tucson Film Festival ) is part of an Arizona non-profit organization dedicated to creating community through cinema, theater and documentary filmmaking. The festival is an annual, multi-day event in Tucson, Arizona, showcasing music-related films with a special nod to films and filmmakers with a connection to Arizona or the desert southwest. TFMF screens at multiple venues around downtown Tucson including; The Loft Cinema, The Screening Room and The Rialto Theatre. All films are regional or world premieres and feature Q&As with filmmakers and talent from the films!  For more on the festival, please visit: http://tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com