'Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal' Wins Two Awards At NY Film Festival

August 29, 2007

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" — the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene — have announced two September screenings – Saturday, September 1 at the Tucson Film And Music Festival and Friday, September 7 in Antwerp, Belgium.

"Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" recently received awards for "Best Music Documentary" and the "Founder's Choice Award" for "Best Director" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, held in July 2007.

"'Get Thrashed' is having an incredible run on the film festival circuit and it's truly gratifying to be recognized by fans and festivals for all the hard work that went into making the movie," said director Rick Ernst. "I'm excited that we're able to bring the documentary to thrash fans in Arizona — home of awesome bands like FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SACRED REICH, ATROPHY and others; and I'm also stoked about our European dates, the first of which is in Belgium, home of the legendary Graspop Metal Meeting festival."

"Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" will conclude its festival circuit tour in late September with screenings at the Oldenberg International Film Festival in Germany, Athens International Film Festival in Greece, as well as screenings Paris and several U.S. East Coast film festivals.

The Tucson, AZ screening of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" will be held Saturday, September 1 at 7:30 pm at the Rialto Theatre (318 E. Congress St. Tucson AZ 85701). Single admission tickets are $5 and are available at the Rialto Box Office on the day of the show.

The Antwerp, Belgium screening will be held on Friday, September 7 at Schouwburg Cultuurcentrum Luchtbal (Columbiastraat 8 – 2030, Antwerp, Belgium. phone 03 543 90 30). Tickets are 3 euros in advance and 5 euros the day of show. Director Rick Ernst will be at the screening to introduce the film and for a question-and-answer session before it begins.

Watch the "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal" trailer below:

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