Drafthouse Films to Distribute Rockumentary ‘A Band Called Death’

The 2013 SXSW Film Festival is a little more than a week away, but here’s some good news for one of the films playing there. Drafthouse Films, the distribution arms of the Alamo Drafthouse, has sent out a press release revealing that they’ve acquired U.S. distribution rights to A Band Called Death, a new “rockumentary” about, well, a band called Death that preceded the punk movement but whose music has only recently been discovered. Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino directed the film, which had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival last year and will play in the “24 Beats Per Second” category at SXSW too. The doc tells the story of three African-American brothers who founded the band Death in 1971 Detroit, becoming one of the first bands in the punk genre. They spent years trying to make it in the industry, but ended up having to sell off all of their instruments and disband. But thirty years later, …