Drew DeNicola

Bio

Drew DeNicola is a director and editor with a focus on music history and culture documentaries. His films have been showcased at SXSW, BFI London, IDFA, DOC NYC, Tribeca Film Festival, The IFP Market, Sarasota, and Full Frame film festivals, as well as theatrically and on Netflix, HBO, MTV, and VICE.

His feature directorial debut was the film Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me. The film unpacks the decades-long legacy of the 1970s Memphis cult band Big Star, who inspired artists as diverse as The Jesus and Mary Chain, R.E.M., The Replacements, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, and Hot Chip. Big Star premiered at SXSW and the BFI London Film Festival, won the jury prize at Indie Memphis in 2013, and was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures in July 2013, receiving positive reviews from The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, and The New York Times.

He is currently directing and producing Sun Ra: Door of the Cosmos, a sonic cinema odyssey about the life and work of one of the most celebrated and least understood conceptual artists of the 20th century, Sun Ra. The film has a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter running through the month of September.