MRC Non-Fiction’s feature documentary “Burn It Down!,” which reexamines the infamous Woodstock ’99 music festival, will have its world premiere at the 65th British Film Institute (BFI) …
’s feature documentary “Burn It Down!,” which reexamines the infamous Woodstock ’99 music festival, will have its world premiere at the 65th British Film Institute London Film Festival.
“Festival organisers cobbled together a poorly conceived rehash of an iconic cultural moment. From security, to basic needs, nothing had been properly planned,” reads the film’s description in the BFI London Film Festival program. “The line-up was a cocktail of 1990s pop rock and peak nu metal angry-white-man bands, including Limp Bizkit and Korn. What began as carefree revelry descended into a lethal cauldron of violence, sexual assault and carnage.
The project is the latest from “XY Chelsea” director Tim Travers Hawkins and debut feature documentary director Celia Aniskovich, and is produced by Julia Nottingham through Dorothy Street Pictures and Aniskovich, along with executive producers Max Hirschman and Joanna Zwickel . “Everything about Woodstock ’99 has become more prescient and fascinating with the benefit of hindsight,” said, head of MRC Non-Fiction. “Dorothy St. Pictures have collected incredible insight into the events of that weekend and we are excited to work with them to tell the definitive, and unfortunately very relevant story of how Woodstock 99 went down.”
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