The documentary film THE GITS has been confirmed for theatrical release on July 7 [today], the 15th memorial anniversary of death of lead singer Mia Zapata. For all you unfamiliar with the band of the ...
Seattle punk legends The Gits and their late singer Mia Zapata, who was murdered at the age of 27 in 1993, had their story told in the 2005 documentary The Gits, directed by Kerri O’Kane. That ...
In the early 90s, Seattle was at the center of a sonic revolution. Grunge, a homegrown sludgy rock sound, became a global commodity. At the same time, another sound was making its mark on Seattle. The ...
If you’re unfamiliar with Mia Zapata and the Gits, you’ve yet to hear one of punk rock’s saddest tales. Zapata, the band’s frontwoman, was brutally attacked at the band’s height in 1993, and her ...
The man convicted of murdering influential singer Mia Zapata of Seattle’s The Gits on July 7, 1993 has died. Jesus Mezquia, age 66, died in a hospital in Pierce County, Washington on January 21 of ...
Stories about the determined rise of a rock ‘n’ roll band are often uniquely embedded with dramatic potential. It helps when the characters are fully rounded and the context includes elements of an ...
Kerri O'Kane's new film The Gits succeeds as a documentary--she makes the viewer fall in love with her subject--and then some. Working with sparse footage from the 1980s and '90s, O'Kane still manages ...
Of the more than 230 films at the Seattle International Film Festival, more than a dozen are music documentaries, grouped together in a special section called “Face the Music.” Three are of special ...
Mia Zapata was drenched in sweat, surrounded by congested bodies as she geared up to sing “Second Skin,” the final song of The Gits’ set inside the cramped Jabberjaw Café. It was a hot summer day on ...
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