The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) is launching its inaugural festival, LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival, this summer.
LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival will be held August 8-10 at LIMEHOF’s Stony Brook location, with each day’s events starting at 11 a.m. and running into the evening hours.
The festival will feature 24 feature length and short music documentary films from around the world, including a wide range of music genres such as classical, Hip Hop, rock, jazz, ska, blues and folk. Other films focus on the music industry itself, a pirate radio station and break dancing.
LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival will also have a filmmaker Q&A panel, opening and closing parties each night and live music performances. Some of the performing artists include English pop star Billy J Kramer, Mick Lynch of the folk-pop band Guggenheim Frotto, Public Enemy’s, revolutionary Hip Hop group, DJ Johnny Juice and many more.
Some of the opening films include Building the Beatles, Cat’s in the Cradle 50th Anniversary: The Song That Changed Our Lives and Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland. Several other films slated to be featured throughout the festival including Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Betweem, Hello! My Name is Blotto: THE MOVIE, The Bronx Boys – The Evolution of B-Boy Culture and many more.
For more information on LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival and the festival’s full schedule of events, visit the web page here.
LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival List of Scheduled Films
- Chrysalis Orchestra: Layla (Short) | United States
- Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity (Feature) | Canada, Germany, Poland, US
- Fighting Gravity (Short) | United States
- 40 Watts from Nowhere (Feature) | United States
- Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland (Short) | U.S., Ireland
- Building the Beatles (Feature) | United States, United Kingdom
- My Back Pages (Short) | United States
- Cat’s in the Cradle 50th Anniversary: The Song That Changed Our Lives (Feature) | United States
- Fugazi’s Last Stop in Wisconsin (Short) | United States
- Born To Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf (Feature) | Canada
- Notes on a Page (Short) | United States
- String Theory: Guitar Obsessed (Feature) | United States
- If Jack Reacher Could Sing (Short) | United States
- Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (Feature) | United States
- Hello! My Name is Blotto: THE MOVIE (Feature) | United States
- The Bronx Boys – The Evolution of B-Boy Culture (Short) | United States
- To My Rescue, it Was the S1Ws (A Public Enemy Story) (Feature) | United States
- They All Came Out to Montreux (Feature) | United Kingdom, Switzerland
- D.I.Y.L.I. (Short) | United States
- Charlie Loves Our Band: The Story of From Good Homes (Feature) | United States
- Songs of Black Folk (Short) | United States
- Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine (Feature) | Canada
- Ron Delsener Presents (Feature) | United States
- Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary (Feature) | United States
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