{"id":3797,"date":"2025-02-19T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:02:37","slug":"dokstation-legendary-artists-in-the-spotlight-at-music-documentary-festival-in-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"DokStation: Legendary artists in the spotlight at music documentary festival in Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DokStation &#8211; Music Documentary Film Festival<\/em>, the only festival in the country dedicated to documentaries about music, returns for its ninth edition between May 28 and June 1 in several venues in Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>The films in the program highlight initiatives emerging away from the big studios, stories of trailblazers, or of marginals who became legends.<\/p>\n<p>The first titles in this year&#8217;s selection focus on artists such as Sex Pistols, Placebo, Ace Of Base, Peaches, Gloria Gaynor, Liza Minnelli, Steppenwolf, Broken Social Scene, The Cimarons, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The program includes Oscar Sansom&#8217;s <em>Placebo: This Search for Meaning<\/em>, which explores the ideas behind the lyrics of the famous British band, while tracing their evolution as a group and as individuals; Nick Mead and Andre Relis&#8217;s <em>I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol<\/em>, revealing lesser-known aspects of the band&#8217;s history; Bruce David Klein&#8217;s <em>Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story<\/em>, focused on the life of Liza Minnelli, starting in the 1970s, immediately after the death of her mother, Judy Garland; Betsy Schechter&#8217;s <em>Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive<\/em>, which tells the story of the disco music legend, who inspired millions with the lyrics of her well-known song in the film&#8217;s title; Stephen Chung&#8217;s <em>It&#8217;s All Gonna Break<\/em>, revealing behind-the-scenes footage from the creative process of the band Broken Social Scene, stars of the Canadian indie scene in the early 2000; Mark Warmington&#8217;s <em>Harder Than the Rock<\/em>, the untold story of Britain&#8217;s first reggae band, The Cimarons, established in 1967 by teenage Jamaican immigrants; and Jens von Reis&#8217;s docu-series <em>Ace of Base: All That She Wants<\/em>, highlighting the story of one of the most famous bands of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to screenings, the DokStation program also includes concerts by international and local names, which are set to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>A limited number of festival passes, which offer reservation-based access to screenings and events within the festival, are on sale at Eventbook.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Illustration: the organizers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DokStation &#8211; Music Documentary Film Festival, the only festival in the country dedicated to documentaries about music, returns for its ninth edition between May 28 and June 1 in several venues in Bucharest. The films in the program highlight initiatives emerging away from the big studios, stories of trailblazers, or of marginals who became legends. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}