AIR GUITAR NATION * FREE * Outside | Drive-in at Rockefeller Center June 7, 2006

BREAKING NEWS: Air Guitar Nation will screen tonight, June 7, and have a repeat performance tomorrow night June 8 following Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos. AGN will play at 11pm.


NOTE - THIS IS HAPPENING TONIGHT, RAIN or SHINE. Seems likely it will be rain...but come anyway. It will rock your rainy day blues away.


No longer a mere bedroom pastime, air guitar is now recognized as a force with universal appeal. Oulu, Finland, has hosted the Air Guitar World Championship for years, but remarkably, as late as 2002, the United States had yet to be represented. After the sold-out success of the inaugural stateside tournament held at the Pussycat Lounge in Tribeca, it became clear that America had been hungering to stand up and take its turn on the international stage. Filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz captures the electricity of that initial event, and goes on to track the intense rivalries that develop in further rounds as contestants vie to become the country's first ambassador of air.


Air Guitar Nation
The Channel Gardens of Rockefeller Center
between 49th and 50th Streets, off Fifth Avenue
Doors open at 6pm, screening at 9


"Alexandra Lipsitz's often hilarious documentary (with almost everyone in on the joke) won the audience award at SXSW and is spawning a cult following that could snowball in release."
-- Variety


"Easily the best movie we've seen at the festival this year."
-- Gothamist

"Air Guitar Nation is one of the most fun documentaries I suspect will ever be seen. It is overflowing with energy and had the whole crowd headbanging and playing air guitar in their seats. It's a movie that rock and roll fans can't afford to miss."
-- Ain't it Cool News

Official Website: http://www.airguitarnation.com