
“Save the Vault. Tell the Story.”
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
Release Date: 11/27/2020
Runtime: 129 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Alex Winter
Budget: $1.1M
0Companies: Trouper Productions, Zipper Bros Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, BFI, Magnolia Pictures
Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

Frank Zappa
Self (archive footage)

Mike Keneally
Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

Pamela Des Barres
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
Lonnie Lardner
Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
Patrice Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
Rose Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
Francis Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)

Edgard Varèse
Self (archive footage)
Don Van Vliet
Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
The Mothers of Invention
Themselves (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar Watson
Self (archive footage)
Pamela Zarubica
Self - Zappa's Roommate
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