Interview:
J. Budro Partida,
director,
"Bloody & Bruised:
The Untold Story of the Back Room"
For those who rocked at the Back Room, Austin-based filmmaker J. Budro Partida salutes you. In his documentary Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of the Back Room, Partida chronicles the rise and fall of the Austin hard rock and heavy metal music venue that cranked the volume up to 11 each and every night. Partida traces the Back Room’s early days as a country music bar and arcade game room; its embrace of hard rock and heavy metal during the big hair years of the 1980s; the efforts to add punk pop, rap, and hip-hop acts to its lineup; and the internal and external factors that led to its abrupt closure in 2006 after 33 years of keeping it loud and proud. The documentary features interviews with members of the Back Room’s best-known house bands, Dangerous Toys and Pariah, as well as former employees and the Austin music journalists who covered the local and national acts that rock the venue’s stage. Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of the Back Room will screen at 9:15 p.m. Dec. 14 at the AFS Cinema during Sound Unseen ATX 2024. J. Budro Partida is an Austin-based shorts and music video director. He also directed the short documentary Telling the Saxon Story and the TV special Professor Griffin's Midnight Theatre. Aired: Dec. 4, 2024. Web sites: https://www.austinfilm.org/ https://www.pennyrockproductions.com/ https://www.facebook.com/BloodyBruisedBackRoom/ |
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