‘Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story’ Documentary Acquired by Abramorama (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor Abramorama has acquired worldwide theatrical distribution rights for a fall release for “Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story,” the feature documentary about the seminal L.A.
cult rock band. Andrew Reich directed the doc covering brothers and founders Jeff and Steven McDonald and the band’s place in the Los Angeles music scene from the 1970s to now.
Directed and produced by Reich and produced by Julian Cautherley, the film also features interviews with band members from Pearl Jam, The Go-Go’s, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, The Bangles, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr and more. “Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story” won the Jury Award for best documentary at the 2023 Sound Unseen Film Festival and has played numerous other festivals.
Variety‘s Jem Aswad called the band ahead of its time in his review, writing, “It seems ridiculous even now to say that their unabashed affection for those garish fashions, the Partridge Family, Mackenzie Phillips and other pop-culture icons of their childhood was visionary (relatively speaking, anyway), but as the remarkable new documentary ‘Born Innocent’ proves, they were even further ahead of their time than longtime fans had thought.
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