(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The Asbury Park Music & Film Festival (APMFF) will screen the music documentaries Long Strange Trip and Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors on April 28-29. The screening for both will take place at the House of Indendents in Asbury Park. It will be the World Premiere screening for The Doors' film.
Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors, which is directed and produced by Kreutzmann, will make its world premiere on Saturday, April 28th at 12:45pm at the House of Independents. The film is a documentary from a 2016 all-star concert in Los Angeles that John Densmore and Robby Krieger, the two surviving members of The Doors, developed to celebrate what would have been Manzarek’s 70th birthday.
Long Strange Trip will be screened on Sunday, April 29th at 2:15pm. The film will be followed by an intimate panel discussion and Q&A with the film’s producers Eric Eisner and Justin Kreutzmann. The Amazon Prime Video documentary on the Grateful Dead explores the deep history of the legendary rock band. The near-four hour documentary was released in January of 2017 and was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Music Film.
Tickets for both films, along with a variety of APMFF VIP and student packages, are now available by visiting www.apmff.org.
House of Independents is located at 572 Cookman Ave in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
The Asbury Park Music & Film Festival has welcomed a variety of world-class music, film and panel discussions to its stages and screens. Highlights have included a jam session featuring Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt, Southside Johnny and others in support of the documentary Just Before The Dawn about the history of the famed Upstage Club; Q&A sessions with award-winning actor and director Don Cheadle around the NJ film premiere of Miles Ahead; exclusive Bob Dylan archival footage; performances from Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Gene Cornish (The Rascals), Colin Hay (Men At Work), Brian Fallon (Gaslight Anthem) and Robert Randolph; panel discussions with industry leaders Tom Bernard (Sony Pictures Classics), Adam Block (Sony Legacy Recordings) and photographer and director Danny Clinch.
