Boulder International Film Festival Closing Night & Special Guest, 3/3/19

The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) is pleased to announce Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and former lead singer of The Wallflowers, Jakob Dylan, will make a special appearance for the film Echo in The Canyon at BIFF's Closing Night on Sunday, March 3 at the Boulder Theater. This special screening of Echo In The Canyon, directed by music-industry veteran Andrew Slater and starring Jakob Dylan, features the sounds of LA's famous Laurel Canyon music scene in the '60s-including music from The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas & The Papas and more.

"We're honored to welcome Jakob Dylan to the Festival this year," said Robin Beeck, BIFF's Executive Director. "Echo In The Canyon provides an up close and personal look at the way musicians and their personas ultimately shaped the American music scene. Mr. Slater's film presents us with the opportunity to hear personal stories from some of our favorite musicians, and to hear those same songs sung by an impressive lineup of contemporary singer/songwriters. It's the perfect finale to an amazing lineup of music-themed films at BIFF 2019."

Closing Night Film: ECHO IN THE CANYON

USA, Feature Documentary, 2018, 82 minutes

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Boulder Theater

6:30 pm: Doors Open/6:15 pm for passholders

6:15 - 7:15 pm: Music by Card Catalog

7:15 pm: Awards Ceremony

7:30 pm: Echo In The Canyon

Q&A after the film screening by Ron Bostwick, with Jakob Dylan, Director/Producer Andrew Slater, and Producer Eric Barrett

Tickets are $35 (plus service charge)

ON SALE: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 10 am at biff1.com

ECHO IN THE CANYON

Echo In The Canyon is a look at how The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas & The Papas set the stage for the LA's Laurel Canyon music scene, and how the echo of these artists' creations reverberated between each other and ultimately across to London, where it altered the course of The Beatles themselves. Jakob Dylan interviews the artists who wrote the songs and discovers why they were written and what life was like in Laurel Canyon in the years before psychedelia and the birth of the singer-songwriter era. He discovers fascinating, never-before-heard personal details behind the recordings and those who made them popular.

The songs from that era provide an entry point as Dylan and a new generation of artists (Beck, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Norah Jones and others) interpret and perform the songs paying homage to, and in many cases in front of, their authors.

Directed by Andrew Slater (former President and CEO of Capitol Records)

Written and Produced by Andrew Slater and Eric Barrett

Executive Produced by Jakob Dylan and Dan Braun

Cast includes: Jakob Dylan, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Beck, Regina Spektor, Graham Nash, Cat Power, Brian Wilson, Lou Adler, John Sebastian, Jackson Browne, Michelle Phillips, Norah Jones, Jade Castrinos.

Closing Night Event Details

6:15 - 7:30 pm: (Doors open at 6:30 to ticket holders) Inside the Boulder Theater, Festival attendees will enjoy gypsy folk rock from Rocky Mountain Battle of the Bands winner Card Catalog, followed by the BIFF Awards Ceremony where filmmakers will be honored with the"Best of the Fest" awards, complete with handcrafted Vielehr sculptures. Following the Awards Ceremony, there will be a special screening of Echo In The Canyon, directed by Andrew Slater and featuring Jakob Dylan.

Also appearing with films at BIFF 2019 are David Crosby and Emilio Estevez.

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