Event

FREE TO ROCK

Directed by 4 Time Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker Jim Brown and Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.
FREE TO ROCK, a documentary film, explores the soft power of Rock and Roll music to open hearts and minds and to plant dreams in the imagination of youth behind the Iron Curtain. It covers the years 1955 to 1991, and Rock and Roll music's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to ending the Cold War. Rock and Roll became the Sound of Freedom to youth behind the Iron Curtain as it quickly spread like a virus across Western Europe and into Eastern Europe and the USSR, inspiring young people everywhere to question authority and the Communist system. The U.S. documentary film 'Free to Rock' tells the story of how, as a critical form of free expression, rock'n'roll music was instrumental in bringing down the Iron Curtain, and leaving open the question of what rock music's role against the current retrograde regime in Russia might be.

All net proceeds to benefit Orcas Island Film Festival