The Gits

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“Mia Zapata was on the verge of music stardom.”  - CBS News
Los Angeles, CA – Liberation Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to the music
documentary film, The Gits, which chronicles the tragic story of one of the most influential
bands to emerge from the Seattle music underground. The project was acquired from JAB Films
and Knockout Productions with cooperation from Gold Village Entertainment, and will be
distributed on DVD through Adrenaline/ADA on July 8th (with an SRP of $19.99) following a
theatrical release.
With an innovative sound that coupled hardcore punk with heartfelt blues, The Gits were poised
to break into the mainstream, but they would never achieve the success of contemporaries
Nirvana or Pearl Jam because on July 7, 1993 singer Mia Zapata was found murdered –the
apparent victim of a rape/homicide.
It was a crime unsolved when director Kerri O’Kane began shooting her debut feature. In the
interim, however, fans, friends and celebrities like Joan Jett and Nirvana helped raise money to
reopen what had become a cold case file. Mia’s death had reverberated throughout the music
community, and unprecedentedly Mia’s killer was brought to justice as the cameras rolled.
“The Gits is a new motion-picture hybrid,” observes Liberation chairman Jay Boberg. “On the
surface it’s a documentary about a great rock n roll band at an incredible time in music history,
but it’s also a murder mystery. It’s got joy and poignancy -it’s just extraordinary.”
 “There has never been a story like this one, and I am honored to be involved with such a
passionate film about one of rock’s geniuses who was taken from the world far too soon,” adds
Gold Village Entertainment President Danny Goldberg.
“It’s wonderful that this film, which has been a true labor of love, has found a home with
Liberation,” comments producer Jessica Bender. “So much has happened since we first started filming -the trial, the sentencing. And we’ve come across so many people whose lives have been
touched by the music of Mia and The Gits. All this new footage will be on the DVD.

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