Starring: Melissa Moore, Ed Cannon, Mal Arnold, Don Tilley, Morrow Faye

Tough as nails police officer Lucas only works the night shift — because he also happens to be a vampire! Armed with supernatural strength and a thirst for justice (and blood), he’s locked in a deadly game with crime boss Hans Gieger in hopes of cleaning up the streets. But when investigative reporter Melanie Roberts starts getting too close to the story, Lucas’s secret is on the line, while Gieger aims to create his own vampire army. Lucas and Melanie must take the ultimate bite out of crime and stop him.

SOV superstar Donald Farmer’s (Demon Queen, Scream Dream) slow motion smothered, toothy tale of street justice and juicy jugulars is overflowing with dreamy analog visuals and delirious dialogue that would make even the lowest budgeted, dime store-fanged Dracula recoil as if scorched by the rays of the sun.

Doc’n Roll Festival Presents: NYC PREMIERE

Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal US West Coast band of the last half century. Passionate praise for the band started by ‘freak brothers’ Jeff and Steve McDonald – one of the most unique and influential American rock bands of the past four decades. A colourful and chirpy clusterf*ck of garage punk, glam, power pop, metal, candour, bullheadedness and wild adventures. A genre unto itself, and unto which, members of Sonic Youth, L7, Black Flag, Melvins and Sebadoh profess undying love. Featuring: Jeff McDonald, Steve McDonald, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Mark Arm, Lou Barlow, Keith Morris, Donita Sparks, Jennifer Finch, Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover.

Exploring the life, music, & artistic output of Stuart Gray (AKA Stu Spasm), the notorious underground rocker who created the most psychotronic group to emerge from Australia – the legendary Lubricated Goat. Shot over 20 years, featuring archival footage, photos, interviews, Gray’s sculptures and paintings, live performance footage including Gray’s current band, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet.

Doc’n Roll Festival Presents: NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Celebratory, raw and shocking, this film is as close to the story of the anarcho-punk band as you’re going to get…

Crass were an art collective and punk band that formed in Essex in 1977, and disbanded in 1984. They promoted anarchism and a movement of resistance that awakened and appealed to many. They inspired many bands and artists such as The Levellers and Charlatans’ singer Tim Burgess, and seem to be more relevant now than ever. Artist and director Brandon Spivey tells the tale of Crass’ ‘Reality Asylum’, the story and the inspiration behind the album from Spivey’s point of view through interviews with Crass co-founders Steve Ignorant and Penny Rimbaud, and Small Wonder record label owner Pete Stennett. The film doesn’t beat around the bush and highlights what it means to be artists in the midst of a movement of anarchists no longer biting their tongue to protest against the few. Spivey also tells the broader story, expanding on the narrative of anarchism and a broken system. Through open-hearted interviews he touches upon subjects such as assaults carried out by the church, Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, the biggest war that threatens humanity; class war, and of course what it was like to be a punk band in the 70’s and the 80’s. Made with the blessing of Crass members, it dives into 1970’s Britain; the birth of punk and the formation of Crass, with an in-depth look at their art, music and ethos, plus its impact on those who were trying to make sense of a brutal hostile society they had no place in.

Doc’n Roll Festival Presents: NYC PREMIERE

All they wanted was the freedom to party. The State saw them as the enemy within.

This DIY indie film follows the birth of the UK’s free party movement in the late 80s and early 90s and the social, political and cultural impact it’s had on our present times. For Conservatives, the movement’s DIY, anti-consumerist lifestyle, prophetic environmental concerns, radical direct-action, anti-road protest and animal welfare ethos threatened the foundations of the State. The film explores the inception of the movement, a meeting between urban ravers and the new age travelers during Thatcher’s last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 – the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.

Eschewing tired formulaic filmmaking styles and tokenistic big name DJ sound-bites, this exhilarating modern day folktale is told exclusively by those who were in the thick of it and features interviews with members of Spiral Tribe, DIY Sound system, Bedlam and many others.

Starring: Élodie Bouchez, José María de Tavira, Karim Saleh

A successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television. Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared-the victim of a purported CIA abduction. That same night, she meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student, and romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya’s conspiracy theories overly paranoid-but nothing in Asya’s world is as it seems. Asya’s life is reflective of the themes of cultural fusion, and the complications and humor that arise simultaneously out of everyday life.

Starring: Joanna Arnow, Babak Tafti, Scott Cohen, Alysia Reiner, Keith Poulson, Peter Vack

Saturday show followed by Q&A with director Joanna Arnow!

Filmmaker Joanna Arnow’s hilarious comedy follows a 30-something New York woman (Arnow) as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. Arnow’s debut feature film, which she also wrote, directed, and stars in world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and is executive produced by Sean Baker.

“Arnow… is known for her autobiographically tinged works of brutal honesty and deadpan self-deprecation. Here, she finds a core of poignant truth about the ways people search for those elusive, ever-shifting things like emotional happiness and sexual gratification, refusing to judge them while at the same time unafraid of presenting their flaws.” – NYFF

Starring: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross

Dawn of the Dead was first released overseas in 1978 then had its Gala North American premier in Pittsburgh on April 12th, 1979, then began it’s theatrical roll-out across the U.S.A. on April 13th, 1979 (so we get to celebrate the anniversaries of this immortal cult classic twice) and what better way for New Amsterdam Entertainment Inc. to highlight this special milestone than making it available again to Theatres & Drive-Ins!

Starting Friday April 12th, 2024, Theaters & Drive-Ins across the U.S. and Canada will be celebrating the 45th Anniversary of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead hosting weekend long screenings of the definitive zombie epic!

Long heralded as one of the greatest, most influential horror films of all time, this ferocious cinematic shocker has been one of the most requested theatrical revival titles from fright fans the world over for the last 30+ years. Unlike other cinematic favorites, George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978) is still not available on any streaming platform, nor on cable, and has been out-of-print on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S. for over a decade, so the hunger to watch it just keeps growing among its ravenous fans. Furthermore, the cult following for the film has grown exponentially since its release and is so large now it is estimated that over 80% of Dawn of the Dead’s fans have never experienced this legendary epic in a theatre. That all changes starting this year!

Celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the ultimate zombie classic as it was meant to be seen – on the Big Screen!

Starring: Isaiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges, Percy Hynes White

Join The Future of Film is Female for a preview screening of Chandler Levack’s ode to teenage cinephilia, I LIKE MOVIES! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Burlington, Ontario, 2003. Hyper-ambitious teenage cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) dreams of attending film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In order to raise the hefty tuition fee, he gets his dream job at the local video store, Sequels. Wracked with anxiety about his future, Lawrence begins alienating the most important people in his life – his best friend Matt Macarchuck (Percy Hynes White), his single mother Terri (Krista Bridges) – all while developing a complicated friendship with his older female manager, Alana (Romina D’Ugo). As graduation looms ever closer, a series of painful realizations force Lawrence to realize that he is a pretentious asshole.

Starring: Vera Drew, Lynn Downey, Kane Distler, Griffin Kramer, Nathan Faustyn

Arrive early for the custom preshow created by director Vera Drew!

In the absurdist autobiographically-inspired dark comedy, a painfully unfunny aspiring clown (Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin) grapples with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program in a world where comedy has been outlawed. Uniting with a ragtag team of rejects and misfits, Joker the Harlequin forms an illegal anti-comedy troupe that puts her on a collision course with the devious caped crusader controlling the city.