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     RELEASED   30th March 2008
 

   

    • CERTIFICATE   15
    • RUNNING TIME   96 Min
    • CREDIT  Revolver Entertainment

    Based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard, audio-taped interviews with Kurt Cobain conducted
    by music journalist Micheal Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, this intimate
    and moving film recounts the late artist and musician’s life in his own words.

    Shot entirely on 35mm film, Schnack brings Cobain’s life to vivid detail, offering a first hand account of
    Cobain’s own successes and failures, thoughts and experiences from his childhood and adolescence,
    to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with fame. Through Cobain’s recounting, the film
    offers a piercing insight into one of the most interesting and important cultural figures of the late 20th
    century and a specific period of American history.

     Kurt Cobain 'About a Son' enjoyed critical success upon its theatrical release, winning a string of award.

    These include:

    • Maysles Brothers Award, Best Documentary at 29th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival

    • Cinematic Vision Award at AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs,

    • Best Documentary at San Diego Film Festival

    • Best International Documentary at In-Edit Documentary Festival Barcelona

    • Nominated for a Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent’s Spirit Awards

    “For me, Kurt was the first person of my generation to speak on the societal changes that we had seen in the
    previous decades – divorce, changing gender roles, violence, the corporatization of the small town – and he
    did so perceptively and often with anger. And it was sort of amazing that he was so willing to give voice to
    controversial topics like rape and gay rights, yet he was so uncomfortable in the harsh glare of the public eye.”
    AJ Schnack