GREEN BLAH! THE HISTORY OF GREEN BAY PUNK ROCK (Feat. Q&A with director Chris Pretti)

Schedule

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Main Cinema | Minneapolis, MN

GREEN BLAH! THE HISTORY OF GREEN BAY PUNK ROCK
Saturday, November 15 2025
MN Premiere
The Main Cinema
115 SE Main Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Tickets: $13
Co-Presented by: MSP Film Society, Cloudland Theater & Extreme Noise Records
Film Trailer:

GREEN BLAH! THE HISTORY OF GREEN BAY PUNK ROCK is a documentary that tells the story of the punk rock and independent music scene of Green Bay, WI and its neighboring communities in NE Wisconsin. Green Bay is easily identified as being the hometown of the smallest NFL franchise, the Green Bay Packers. It is also home to paper mills, pickle factories and cheese curds. Behind the scenes, Green Bay fostered a punk rock scene that spawned from meager beginnings and had a hard-core roster of local punk bands and characters, some with ties to the football team itself!! If you ask the "man-on-the-street " what punk rock is, the obvious answers are plain to see: The Ramones in NYC, the Sex Pistols in the London or Black Flag in LA. But what happens when Punk Rock invades a small, Midwestern city with its former glory years fading in the twilight of the rust belt???
Green Bay also developed into a destination point on the map for major touring punk bands: Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, the Decendents, ALL, The Dickies, Toxic Reasons, Agent Orange, Social Distortion, 7 Seconds, Soul Asylum...plus countless other bands. See the cast of characters that shaped and created an independent and vital punk scene from the ground up. See the story of how a DIY punk scene took hold in a small, Midwestern city known as the National Football League’s “Titletown” USA!!!
Through the course of the project, the filmmakers have unearthed a vast treasure trove of archival materials. Thousands of photos, flyers, fanzines, audio recordings and video footage were curated and gathered to form a historical archive. The project began with a Top 25 list of punk scene movers and shakers that needed to be interviewed and snowballed into a list of interviewees that number over 90! The project meticulously culled through materials at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Cofrin Library, the photo archives at the Neville Public Museum and the Howard-Suamico Historical Society.
Dir. Christopher Pretti, James J Baker, 2024, 119 min, US

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The Main Cinema, 115 SE Main Street,Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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