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Artist News
Kathleen Hanna film The Punk Singer given UK distribution
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 12 February 2014
‘The Punk Singer’, the Kickstarter-funded film on feminist and Riot Grrrl scene-leader Kathleen Hanna, is to have a springtime release in UK cinemas, having just been acquired by distributor Dogwoof.
Directed by Sini Anderson, the doc follows Hanna’s early years and stints in Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, also featuring the solo band she’s in today, Julie Ruin, and tracing her marriage to Beastie Boys MC Adam Horovitz, and her diagnosis in 2010 of Lyme disease.
It premiered in 2013 at the SXSW festival, and will, Dogwoof confirms, have a theatrical release in Britain on 23 May, thus coinciding with Hanna’s UK tour with The Julie Ruin, which begins on 22 May at London’s Tuffnell Park Dome.
This is its trailer:
