Win Tickets ($70): Carte Blanche: Penelope Spheeris & We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll @ Tomorrow Theater | Metal Weekend Conversation w/ the Filmmaking Legend

We are giving away a pair of tickets to Penelope Spheeris & We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll @ Tomorrow Theater on July 27. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed July 26.

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From our sponsors:
Carte Blanche: Penelope Spheeris & We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll
July 27, 2024
Doors 5:30PM, Conversation 6PM, Film 7PM
$35 | Al Ages
More info: tomorrowtheater.org

Tomorrow Theater
3530 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97202

Join us for a conversation with filmmaking legend Penelope Spheeris, moderated by PAM CUT Executive Director Amy Dotson. After the conversation, we’re thrilled to host an extremely rare screening of her film We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll which documents the 1999 Ozzfest.

ON SCREEN: We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll
2001. Directed by Penelope Spheeris. Runtime: 90 minutes. Rated R.
The Decline of Western Civilization series auteur Penelope Spheeris returns to the world of loud guitars and louder personalities with this late ’90s gem, produced by Sharon Osbourne. Following the 1999 Ozzfest, the nomadic metal festival founded by The Osbournes, Spheeris captures blistering, sweat-drenched sets from future megastars System of a Down, Slipknot, Deftones, and Static-X at their nu-metal infancy alongside heavy metal royalty Black Sabbath and Slayer. The film has never been released and screened only a few times, most recently at the Motion Picture Academy Museum. Spheeris perceives this as her best music documentary work. Sharon Osbourne refers to it as “an amazing historical document”.

ON STAGE: PENELOPE SPHEERIS
Working as a waitress at Denny’s and IHOP, Penelope put herself through film school. A holder of a UCLA Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater Arts, she worked as a film editor and a cinematographer before forming her own company in 1974. Rock ‘n Reel was the first Los Angeles production company specializing in music videos. She produced, directed, and edited videos for major bands through the Seventies and Eighties, concluding her music video work with the Grammy nominated, Bohemian Rhapsody video for Wayne’s World, a feature she directed.