Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club, the documentary film that traces the history of fabled New York City nightclub Wetlands Preserve, has been selected to screen at two film festivals over the coming weeks. On Thursday August 10 at 6:30PM the film will appear at the Columbus Theater in Providence, Rhode Island as part of the 10th Annual Rhode Island Film Festival. The showing will be followed by a panel discussion, with full details to be announced soon. Then on Saturday September 9th at 9PM, Wetlands Preserved will appear in Breckenridge, Colorado at the 26th Annual Breckenridge Film Festival.
Wetlands Preserved, directed by site editor Dean Budnick, incorporates archival footage, soundboard recordings and the efforts of a dozen digital animators to chronicle the clubs tenure from February 1989 through September 2001. Wetlands Preserved features music from Phish, Blues Traveler, moe., The Disco Biscuits, Dave Matthews Band, Sublime, Ben Harper, Spearhead, 311, Ani DiFranco, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Spin Doctors, Fishbone, Agnostic Front and many additional artists.