In 1993, the punk band's singer was murdered. A documentary looks at the crime's effects on the band and the Seattle music scene, and the decade until her killer was found.
In the summer of 1993, everything seemed to be going the Gits' way. Bypassed in the initial wave of interest in Seattle's grunge bands, the punk quartet was close to signing with a major label and had begun recording its second album. But on July 7, after leaving friends at a local bar, the Gits' singer, Mia Zapata, was raped and murdered, her body dumped on the street. Within days, the Gits were national news for the worst imaginable reason. Zapata was famous, not as a singer, but as a victim.
Fifteen years later, director Kerri O'Kane wants to change that with a documentary, The Gits," which will screen in venues across the country today, including the Echoplex in Silverlake, with an introduction by O'Kane and Gits drummer Steve Moriarty. The film deals with Zapata's murder, its devastating effects on her band mates and the Seattle music scene and the agonizing decade until her killer was found.
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