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Entering its second year and showing signs of impressive growth, the NXNE Film Festival is stacked with incredibly cool music-related documentaries, topped by the Toronto premiere of Plaster Caster, which offers an entertaining look at the work of notorious GTO groupie/artiste Cynthia Plaster Caster, who rode to fame on the dicks of rock stars like Jimi Hendrix, Jello Biafra and Wayne Kramer, at the Bloor Cinema June 6.
Other exciting premieres include Nick Drake: A Skin Too Few, the stylish Jeroen Berkvens study of the Britfolk great’s incredible music and tragic life, screening at the John Spotton Cinema June 7 with Dirk Jan Roeleven’s Anton Corbijn: No Still Life, which is full of insights into the brilliant photographer’s captivating portraits of everyone from Bono to Eno.
And Fubar fans won’t want to miss the 15th-anniversary edition of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, John Heyn and Jeff Krulik’s new 90-minute version of their side-splitting cult short depicting the nefarious and comical metalhead antics in a parking lot prior to a Judas Priest concert. It closes the NXNE Film Fest in style at the John Spotton June 8.
