Wednesday, July 24 | 7 p.m. Regal L.A. Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015
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Join Indie Focus for a free screening of “Kneecap,” a comedy-drama biopic inspired by and starring the members of the eponymous Irish rap trio. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with writers/actors Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Próvaí and director Rich Peppiatt, moderated by L.A. Times staff writer and Indie Focus host Mark Olsen.
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In post-Troubles Belfast, fate brings schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed “low life scum” Naoise and Liam OG — and a hip-hop act like no other is born. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. |
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