Live From The Sundance Film Festival: MUST-SEE SUNDANCE & HOT DOCS AWARD WINNING MUSIC DOCUMENTARY RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD IN U.S. & CANADIAN THEATERS THIS SUMMER
WINNER – Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at Hot Docs
& WINNER – Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs
This summer, Kino Lorber will release n U.S. and Canadian movie theaters the award-winning Rezolution Pictures’ music documentary RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD, a powerful movie about the role of Native Americans in contemporary music, featuring some of the greatest music stars of our time.
As described by Justin Lowe of the Hollywood Reporter, it’s a film “Brimming with revealing first-person interviews, tantalizing audio clips and dynamic concert footage, Rumble evinces the enviable potential to appeal to a broad range of audiences in a variety of formats.
Winner of the Audience Award and Best Canadian Documentary at the 2017 HotDocs Film Festival, RUMBLE features interviews with musicians, historians, and experts including: Buddy Guy, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Bennett, Taj Mahal, Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, John Trudell, Steven Tyler, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Monk Boudreaux, George Clinton, Jackson Browne, Martha Redbone, Joy Harjo, Iggy Pop, Wayne Kramer (MC5), Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Pura Fe Crescioni (Ulali), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Taboo (Black Eyed Peas), Slash (Guns ‘N’ Roses), Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Pat Vegas (Redbone).
The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling.
Following its world premiere, RUMBLE received the Best Music Documentary Film Award at the Boulder International Film Festival and will play at several key film festivals nationwide.
A New York theatrical premiere is set for July 26, 2017, at New York’s Film Forum – before a national expansion during the summer, including a full awards-qualifying release at Landmark’s NUART Theatre in Los Angeles starting August 25, 2017.
Written and directed by Catherine Bainbridge (Reel Injun), written and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana, and Executive Produced by Stevie Salas and Tim Johnson, RUMBLE exposes a critical missing chapter of Rock history, revealing how Indigenous musicians helped shape the soundtracks of many generations. Below: Tim Johnson- Tony Bennett-Catherine Bainbridge-Stevie Salas : 
The film stars Link Wray, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Jesse Ed Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Randy Castillo, Taboo, Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, Steven Tyler, Steven Van Zandt, Iggy Pop, Tony Bennett, George Clinton, Slash, Taylor Hawkins, Robert Trujillo, and many more.
The deal for RUMBLE was negotiated between Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber and Diana Holtzberg, President of East Village Entertainment.
“Catherine Bainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana’s RUMBLE brings back the contributions of Native Americans and indigenous musicians to their rightful place in music history. The film is also a thrilling and beautifully constructed documentary, so it’s bound to appeal to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, nationwide.” – Richard Lorber, CEO Kino Lorber
“This whole film happened because I was playing sold out arenas and stadiums with Rod Stewart and while on the road across America I started to wonder why there were no other Native Americans in the biz. Then I discovered there were indeed others who, for reasons unknown to me, people didn’t know about.” – Stevie Salas, Executive Producer
Written and directed by Catherine Bainbridge (Reel Injun) and written and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana
Produced by Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick and Lisa M. Roth
Executive Producers: Stevie Salas and Tim Johnson
Executive Producers for Rezolution Pictures: Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Jan Rofekamp and Ernest Webb
Canada • 2017 • 103 Minutes
