SOMETHING BETTER CHANGE with post-screening Q&A with Joe Keithly of D.O.A.
25th Annual Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival
Midwest Premiere!
Friday, November 15, 2024
9 pm Doors // 9:45 pm Movie followed by Q&A with director Scott Crawford and D.O.A.’s Joe Keithly
All Ages
$20 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $25 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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Midwest premiere screening of the documentary film about the legendary punk band D.O.A. and frontman Joe Keithley's shocking political victory. Q&A with director Scott Crawford & Joe Keithly follows the film!
In 2018, after 40 years of fighting against oppression, homelessness, and corporate greed in the U.S. and in his native Canada, D.O.A. frontman, activist, and cultural politician Joey “Shithead” Keithley decided to turn art into life and run against the outspoken Mayor of Burnaby (population: 250,000+), Derek Corrigan.
Against all odds—and with only a $7000 campaign budget—Keithley won a city councilor seat in Burnaby, BC, that year and helped to unseat the entrenched five-term Corrigan who once famously said, “I would never bend over to give a homeless person a dime because he might steal my watch.”
Will Keithley’s message and DIY approach to campaigning resonate with voters in the upcoming Burnaby election of 2022? Win or lose, we will document him every step of the way as he campaigns for a second term.
Directed by Scott Crawford, 79 min., USA, 2024
For nearly 25 years, Canada’s legendary Punk Kings D.O.A., who helped spread punk rock counterculture around the world, has been happily slashing away at all manner of philosophical enemies. They’ve travelled the globe almost continuously since they formed in 1978; they released their first snarling piece of vinyl, the Disco Sucks EP in June of that year. That slab of plastic opened the door to international prominence, riots, rip-off record companies, and three generations of fans.
In 1981, D.O.A. made the term "hardcore" their own and pushed it into the common vernacular with their legendary album Hardcore 81 and subsequent tours. Consequently, D.O.A. has been cited as a major influence for tons of bands ranging from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Green Day to Rancid to The Offspring.
