EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit Screenbound International has added two documentaries to its slate heading into Cannes, Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos and Stand Together As One.
US filmmaker Rex Miller’s Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos world premiered at DOC NYC last November, and follows the tumultuous life of hardcore punk icon Harley Flanagan and his life in New York from the 1970s onwards, including his darker experiences of drugs, violence and PTSD.
It features interviews with Flea, Ice-T, Henry Rollins, the late Anthony Bourdain and Michael Imperioli. Miller produces with Laura Lee Flanagan and Elisabeth Haviland James.
Screenbound will also directly release the film theatrically in the UK and Ireland this October. The film will be released in US theatres this June through Lightyear Entertainment. Lightyear Entertainment initially obtained worldwide rights in March.
“Fifty years on from the birth of punk, you’d think that every possible story has been covered. But along comes the incredible, untold story of punk’s most authentic voice,” said Screenbound managing director Alan Byron.
Screenbound will also be selling Stand Together As One at Cannes, directed by US filmmaker and photojournalist Chip Duncan and produced by Salim Amin. Chiming with the 40th anniversary of the Live Aid concert, it looks at the events of the 1983–1985 Ethiopian famine which led to Band Aid, USA for Africa and Live Aid.
“Little in human history is more insidious than a dictator using food as a weapon against his enemies,” says Duncan. “If not for the courage of African photojournalist Mohamed Amin and his BBC colleagues Michael Buerk and Mike Wooldridge [who documented Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam’s use of famine as a war weapon], the world might never have known about this humanitarian disaster”.
The documentary features archival footage and interviews featuring Buerk, Woolridge, Harry Belafonte, Ken Kragen, Dionne Warwick, Buerk, Woolridge and humanitarian nurse, Claire Bertschinger.
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