The Oriental Theater to screen
"The World Has No Eyedea"
"The World Has No Eyedea"
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Published by Sareth Ney on July 15, 2016 at 1:59 p.m.
Updated on July 15, 2016 at 8:17 p.m. |
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Photo credit: theworldhasnoeyedea.com
DENVER – “The World Has No Eyedea” will be displayed at The Oriental Theater, on Sept. 1. It is the second of a handful of screenings announced. Live performance at the Colo. premiere will feature DJ Abilities and Carnage The Executioner. Tickets for the film and concert will cost $20. Entry for the concert alone will be $10.
The next showing will be the 2016 Hip-Hop Film Festival inside The National Black Theater in New York, on Aug. 3. The fifth location and date will be at Brewviews Cinema Pub & Club in Salt Lake City, on Sept. 20. Airings in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., Reno, Nev., Olympia, Wash. and Seattle are to be announced.
St. Anthony Main Theatre in Minneapolis held the world premiere of “The World Has No Eyedea”, on April 18. It was one of the official selections at the 2016 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Three days later, a second run was shown because the first showing tickets had sold out. Another Minneapolis theater, Capri Theater, showcased the film on May 5. Since going on a film festival run, it won the platinum award at the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards.
Through crowdfunding, “The World Has No Eyedea” was produced independently. It was a documentary about Michael “Eyedea” Larsen. In the award winning documentary, it chronicled the many aspects of Larsen’s life including: a freestyle battle rapping champion, a guitarist, break dancer, lead vocalist of a punk band, multi-genre music artist, philosopher, poet, supportive friend and underground hip-hop legend.
With the extra footage, Brandon Crowson made a web series about Larsen’s life. To view the nine part webisode series, please click here. “The World Has No Eyedea” and the nine part webisode series was produced by Son Of A Crow Productions and co-produced by Kathy Averill, mother of Eyedea, of Crushkill Recordings. DJ Abilities, Atmosphere’s Slug, Joey Vadnais (family friend), Averill, Elena (ex-girlfriend), Carnage The Executioner, Sammy Warm Hands, J-Sun and Felipe Cuauhtli make appearances.
Shirts with quotes from “The World Has No Eyedea” can be purchased for $15 via the website. Quotes include: “80,000 years of natural selection coming through”, “I can only build if I tear the walls down” and “I’d rather be listening to Eyedea”. “I can only build if I tear the walls down” and lyrics for “Here For You” are sold out. The website can be accessed by clicking here.
The next showing will be the 2016 Hip-Hop Film Festival inside The National Black Theater in New York, on Aug. 3. The fifth location and date will be at Brewviews Cinema Pub & Club in Salt Lake City, on Sept. 20. Airings in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., Reno, Nev., Olympia, Wash. and Seattle are to be announced.
St. Anthony Main Theatre in Minneapolis held the world premiere of “The World Has No Eyedea”, on April 18. It was one of the official selections at the 2016 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Three days later, a second run was shown because the first showing tickets had sold out. Another Minneapolis theater, Capri Theater, showcased the film on May 5. Since going on a film festival run, it won the platinum award at the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards.
Through crowdfunding, “The World Has No Eyedea” was produced independently. It was a documentary about Michael “Eyedea” Larsen. In the award winning documentary, it chronicled the many aspects of Larsen’s life including: a freestyle battle rapping champion, a guitarist, break dancer, lead vocalist of a punk band, multi-genre music artist, philosopher, poet, supportive friend and underground hip-hop legend.
With the extra footage, Brandon Crowson made a web series about Larsen’s life. To view the nine part webisode series, please click here. “The World Has No Eyedea” and the nine part webisode series was produced by Son Of A Crow Productions and co-produced by Kathy Averill, mother of Eyedea, of Crushkill Recordings. DJ Abilities, Atmosphere’s Slug, Joey Vadnais (family friend), Averill, Elena (ex-girlfriend), Carnage The Executioner, Sammy Warm Hands, J-Sun and Felipe Cuauhtli make appearances.
Shirts with quotes from “The World Has No Eyedea” can be purchased for $15 via the website. Quotes include: “80,000 years of natural selection coming through”, “I can only build if I tear the walls down” and “I’d rather be listening to Eyedea”. “I can only build if I tear the walls down” and lyrics for “Here For You” are sold out. The website can be accessed by clicking here.
The World Has No Eyedea screenings:
Aug. 03 - 2016 Hip-Hop Film Festival at The National Black Theater, New York
Sept. 01 - The Oriental Theater, Denver
Sept. 11 - TBA, Los Angeles
Sept. 13 - Fulton 55, Fresno, Calif.
Sept. 20 - Brewvies Cinema Pub & Club, Salt Lake City
Aug. 03 - 2016 Hip-Hop Film Festival at The National Black Theater, New York
Sept. 01 - The Oriental Theater, Denver
Sept. 11 - TBA, Los Angeles
Sept. 13 - Fulton 55, Fresno, Calif.
Sept. 20 - Brewvies Cinema Pub & Club, Salt Lake City
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sareth Ney is the journalist for A Quarter and Dream Pictures. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications and Center for New Media from Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is a former apprentice to master of horror, Clive Barker. He is a Wu-Tang Clan inspired superhero, Wu-Man Chu. He is an award-winning short filmmaker; his goal is to write 150 articles in select time zones, inducts every article into his hall of fame, is a stand-up comedian, motivational speaker, founder and co-host of Pueblo's Independent Multimedia Podcast and is the festival director at Sareth-Fest Music and Comedy Festival.
