NAME OF FESTIVAL: CBGB Music & Film Festival
SINCE: 2012
WHERE: New York
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The CBGB Music and Film Festival is the largest Music & Film Festival in the country with more than 300,000 people in attendance in 2013. The annual festival showcases music of all styles and presenting the largest number of music themed movie premiers. It takes place the week leading up to Columbus Day weekend in NYC every October. Past years have included very large free concerts in Central Park, Times Square and in hundreds of other venues around the city.
BROADWAY IDIOT
The CBGB Film Festival taking place in New York City from Wednesday, October 9 to Sunday, October 13, 2013, announced the 2013 official film lineup of over 60 feature films and shorts. The fest will kick off with BROADWAY IDIOT, a documentary following Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and the making of his Broadway bound American Idiot; and the US theatrical premiere of the feature film, CBGB.
CBGB
The film “CBGB” will have its US festival premiere at the opening film of this year’s CBGB Music & Film Festival the five-day festival/conference that will take place in New York City from Wednesday, October 9 to Sunday, October 13, 2013. Based on the behind-the-scenes story of the beginnings of the US punk movement, CBGB features a talented ensemble cast channeling the prime movers of the era.