2015

BREAKING A MONSTER

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Chronicling the break-out year of the band Unlocking the Truth, the film follows 13-year-old members Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse, and Jarad Dawkins as they first encounter stardom and the music industry, and transcend childhood to reckon with their rock-star dreams. The accelerated breakout of any band is an extremely narrow and specific period in time. BREAKING A MONSTER is the story of this rapid transformation.

Program Feature
Runtime 1:32
Country United States
Language English

Luke Meyer is an award-winning non-fiction filmmaker. Past feature films include DARKON (2006, SXSW Audience Award, IFCtv—about LARPers and American fantasy), THE FEATURE (2008 CPH New Visions Award, as writer and editor—about the life of pioneer video artist Michel Auder), NEW WORLD ORDER (2009, IFCtv—about Alex Jones and the expanding culture of conspiracy theorists), BREAKING A MONSTER (2016, Best Documentary, UK Music Video Awards—about child rock stars’ first encounter with the music industry). Most recently he premiered his documentary series THE FOURTH WALL about a psychotherapy cult at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.   Meyer helped create the NEA-supported Bellwether Film Series in Amherst, MA, and, for the last eight years, has served as a curator for the series. Meyer is a founding partner of the acclaimed filmmaking collective SeeThink Films and is based in New York City and Western Massachusetts.

CREDITS

Director
Luke Meyer
Producer
Tom Davis
Thad Luckinbill
Trent Luckinbill
Molly Smith
Editor
Brad Turner

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