A Fat Wreck Interview with Director Shaun Colón

A Fat Wreck
USA, 2016, 88 min., Color
A Dallas film about a 1990s California punk rock record label, A FAT WRECK is Director Shaun Colón’s homage to the DIY ethos and passion of label-founder Fat Mike.
In the '90s, pop-punk was king of the West Coast indie scene, and Fat Wreck Chords gave a home to edgy bands such as Rise Against, Lagwagon, Propagandhi and Fat Mike’s own NOFX. Colón weaves together the FAT WRECK story from interviews with the label’s band members, rare and grainy performance footage and a crunchy soundtrack packed with quick punky riffs and huge melodic choruses. Oh, and there’s puppets that play out the best (and sometimes the worst) of the characters and conflicts that inhabit the Fat Wreck Chords’ world.
Not all of the story is pretty, but that’s what makes this a compelling “punkumentary.” Colón pits good against bad, right against wrong, and shows Fat Mike and his compatriots as they are, true punks.
— MARC LEE

DIFF2016 pre-festival round table interview.

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