BACKSTAGE is an unflinching documentary look at life behind the stages of some of the most significant musical artists to emerge from the DIY end of the alternative spectrum. The motivations, the motivators, sacrifices and choices directed toward making art in the faces of lives and time that frequently give less than a fuck about making art.

Uncensored and unsparing, thoughtful and though-provoking 107 minutes of music and meditations on music, sincerely told by Colin H. van Eeckhout, Tera Simms, J. Bennett, Nate Newton, Jacob Bannon, Alexis Fleisig, Steve von Till, Larry Boothroyd, Ralph Spight, John Baizley, Peter Adams, Laura Pleasants, Matt Cronk, Paul Christensen, Meg Castellanos, Buzz Osborne, Tomas Antona, Matt Pike. With never before seen live footage of Amenra, Old Man Gloom, Converge, Ides of Gemini, Obits, Girls Against Boys, Neurosis, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine, Totimoshi, Baroness, Kylesa, Qui, Alice Donut, Melvins, and Sleep.