Followers of music documentaries, rejoice. The Lengthy Island Music and Leisure Corridor of Fame (often known as LIMEHOF to Lengthy Island tradition fans within the know), is launching the world’s first movie pageant devoted solely to music docs.
The inaugural LIMEHOF Music Documentary Movie Competition will happen from August 8 – 10, with a to-be-announced lineup that may pair the most effective present documentaries with musical performances and conversations with the artists who’ve formed music historical past. And whereas LIMEHOF has lengthy been dedicated to celebrating New York’s wealthy musical historical past, which runs the gamut from Billy Joel and Neil Diamond to Mariah Carey and Barbara Streisand, the pageant goals to increase the establishment’s horizons to embody new mediums and rejoice artists from world wide.
“We have now a deep connection to the music business in Lengthy Island, however not too way back we determined to incorporate ‘leisure’ in our title. That’s a current change, however due to that we’re beginning to look into movie,” LIMEHOF vice chairman and the pageant’s government director Tom Needham informed IndieWire. “There are a whole lot of movie festivals, however there aren’t any music documentary movie festivals.”
Consistent with the pageant’s musical theme, the objective is to pair as many screenings as doable with performances from the artists being highlighted.
“One of many issues that’s distinctive about having this pageant at our establishment is that we’re a music corridor of fame. We have now a whole lot of music memorabilia, however we even have a stage,” Needham mentioned. “If artists have an interest, they’ll have an invitation to truly carry out if that’s one thing they’re prepared to do.”
Needham and creative director Wendy Feinberg are nonetheless curating the lineup — Feinberg admitted that discovering a full slate of latest music documentaries is “a problem, however we all know they’re on the market!” Nevertheless, the duo revealed that one movie on the invoice can be an upcoming documentary about Lengthy Island native Harry Chapin that focuses on his seminal ode to parenting gone mistaken, “Cat’s within the Cradle.”
“One of many legends that’s most recognized for being from Lengthy Island is the good Harry Chapin,” Needham mentioned. “For us to have the ability to discover out so shortly that this Harry Chapin movie can be on the pageant is an honor for us.”
For extra data on the LIMEHOF Music Documentary Movie Competition, together with data on submit your personal movies, go to the pageant’s FilmFreeway itemizing.