Executive Produced by Oscar®
Nominee Joe Berlinger and Live Nation Productions
Live Nation
Productions announced its latest documentary, TRUTH TO POWER, will debut at the Cannes Virtual Market this week.
The film chronicles Serj Tankian, the Grammy®-winning lead singer of System Of
A Down, whose music and outspoken social justice activism on and off the stage
has influenced large-scale political movements. With unique and exclusive
access to the man behind the music, award-winning director/writer/producer
Garin Hovannisian (“I Am Not Alone”) captures both intimate and historic public
moments, including Serj’s role in inspiring the massive peaceful protests of
2018’s Velvet Revolution in his native Armenia which successfully ousted an oligarchic
regime.
TRUTH TO POWER also includes
appearances by System Of A Down band members John
Dolmayan and Shavo Odadjian, the band’s manager
David “Beno” Benveniste, filmmaker/journalist Carla Garapedian, Rage Against
the Machine’s Tom Morello, and famed record producer Rick Rubin. The feature
documentary is executive produced by Academy Award® nominee Joe Berlinger
(“Paradise Lost” trilogy, “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”); and Live Nation
Production’s Ryan Kroft (Emmy® winner for “The T Word”), Michael Rapino (“A
Star is Born,” Emmy nominee for “Believer”), Damian Vaca, and Vaughn
Schoonmaker.
Endeavor Content is
handling worldwide sales.
Millions fill
stadiums across the world for the sound of Serj Tankian, the Grammy-winning
lead singer of System Of A Down. With exclusive interviews, adventures, and
original footage personally filmed by Serj, TRUTH TO POWER allows audiences backstage access to an international
rock star whose faith in music not only revolutionized heavy metal, but also world
events. Throughout his life, the musician has pursued social justice, harnessing
the power of his songs and celebrity for real political change. Serj’s voice is
equally likely to take on American corporate greed as lambast the corrupt
regime of his homeland. His decades-long campaign for formal U.S. recognition
of the Armenian Genocide was finally approved by Congress last year. Governments
hate him. People love him.
Set to the iconic
music of System Of A Down and the propulsions of an original soundtrack
composed by Serj, TRUTH TO POWER is also
an artist portrait with a revealing look at the musician as he writes a song
from idea to reality and pursues ambitions outside of the band. It also
includes memories from legendary producer Rick Rubin on System Of A Down’s early
years and its unlikely breakthrough, the bandmates’ candid insights about the splinters
and highpoints for the group, and stories from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom
Morello on his bond with Serj as social justice advocates and their “Axis of
Justice” nonprofit. Running time is 79 minutes.
ABOUT LIVE NATION PRODUCTIONS
Live Nation Productions is the film, television and documentary production division of Live Nation Entertainment, dedicated to telling groundbreaking, musically driven stories for audiences worldwide. Upcoming projects include Dave Grohl’s “From Cradle to Stage,” which focuses on the original stories and behind-the-scenes relationships between influential rock stars and their mothers. Live Nation Productions’ previous projects include the critically acclaimed “A Star is Born” which grossed over $400 million dollars worldwide, “Believer,” “The After Party,” “Gaga: Five Foot Two,” “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story,” “Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis,” and “Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids.”
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