WTMD FILM CLUB: Half-Cocked

MdFF Presents the WTMD Film Club at the SNF Parkway, featuring HALF-COCKED on Saturday, October 21st.
 
Pre-film cocktails and conversation begin at 6PM with WTMD’s Matt Galler. Theater doors open at 6:45pm with a post-film Q&A with HALF-COCKED directors Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky to discuss the film. PLUS – Pen & Quill will set up a pop-up in the lounge from 6-7, selling your P&Q favorites!
 
Tickets are $10 regular admission and $8 for Friends of MdFF Members.
 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
–6:00pm – Pre-film cocktails & conversation with WTMD’s Matt Galler
–6:00pm – 7:00pm – Pen & Quill pop-up in the lounge
–7:00pm – HALF-COCKED screening
–8:30pm – Q&A with HALF-COCKED directors Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky
 
About HALF-COCKED: Made in 1994 in Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga, HALF-COCKED follows a group of kids who steal a van full of music equipment and pretend to be a band in order to stay on the road. The film features Ian Svenonius and members of Rodan and The Grifters, playing versions of themselves. With music by Unwound, Slant 6, Freakwater, Versus, Polvo, Smog, Helium and others. After completing the film Hawley and Galinsky took the film on tour showing it rock clubs across the US and Europe.
 
“It doesn’t seem too bold to say Half-Cocked is an Easy Rider for the 90’s and deserves as much attention.”-Eric Gladstone, ALTERNATIVE PRESS
 
“Bracing in it’s dry humor and first hand accuracy”-VARIETY
 
“Hawley and Galinsky know how to make pictures shudder with feeling”- MANOHLA DARGIS
 
TICKETS – 6:00pm