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Boots Riley joins KQED's award-winning public radio program Forum for a special live conversation celebrating his bold new film, I Love Boosters. Known for his sharp political insight, surreal storytelling, and genre-defying style, Riley will dive into the ideas behind the film, his creative process, and the cultural questions that fuel his work.
Oakland-based filmmaker, musician, and activist Boots Riley has carved his own unique, inventive, and deeply political artistic path. He put in two decades as leader of The Coup, a radical funk/punk/hip-hop band, receiving "Pop Album Of The Year" by Washington Post and Associated Press, and "Hip Hop Album Of The Year" by Rolling Stone. The Coup also created the soundtrack for Riley’s debut film Sorry To Bother You, which Variety described as "a new form of wildly inventive, highly confrontational satire that dares to question the system…" and won Best Feature Film at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Riley also created the critically acclaimed series I’m a Virgo.
Riley has continued his grassroots and artistic activism, and is now releasing his second film, I Love Boosters, a crime comedy about a crew of shoplifters who take on a cutthroat fashion maven, played by Demi Moore.
Event Venue
Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, United States
