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MPLS Festival Film | SOMETHING BETTER CHANGE (Filmmaker Present)

  • Parkway Theater 4814 Chicago Avenue Minneapolis, MN, 55417 United States (map)

Screening Date: Fri. Nov. 15, 2024
Time: 
9:45pm
Venue: 
Parkway Theater
Cost: 
$20 advance | $25 door
Premiere Status: 
Midwest
Run Time/Year/Country:
79min, 2024, USA
Director: 
Scott Crawford

Featuring a post screening Q&A with director Scott Crawford, subject Joe Keithley, and special guest Greg Norton (Husker Du)

Co-presented by Pryes Brewing Company, Extreme Noise Records, Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis

In 2018, after 40 years of fighting against oppression, homelessness, and corporate greed in the U.S. and in his native Canada, D.O.A. frontman, activist, and cultural politician Joey “Shithead” Keithley decided to turn art into life and run against the outspoken Mayor of Burnaby (population: 250,000+), Derek Corrigan.

Against all odds—and with only a $7000 campaign budget—Keithley won a city councillor seat in Burnaby, BC that year and helped to unseat the entrenched five-term Corrigan who once famously said, “I would never bend over to give a homeless person a dime because he might steal my watch.”

Will Keithley’s message and DIY approach to campaigning resonate with voters in the upcoming Burnaby election of 2022? Win or lose, we will document him every step of the way as he campaigns for a second term.

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