Meeting People is Easy, Grant Gee’s new documentary portrait of a world tour by the band Radiohead is kicking off a tour of its own this week, following its U.S. premiere at the SXSW Film Festival over the weekend. Seventh Art has acquired the film for distribution and is presenting the film in theaters in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Chicago during one weekend of midnight screenings in each city.

The film had its L.A. premiere at the newly restored Egyptian Theater on Monday night, in advance of this weekend’s midnight screenings at the Laemmle Sunset 5 theater &√Ǭ£45;- it will screen on two midnights at NYC’s Angelika Film Center on April 2nd and 3rd, before showing at the Roxie in San Francisco on April 9th and 10th, and showings at the Music Box in Chicago on April 16th and 17th. Seventh Art Releasing Senior VP of Special Projects Oren Bitan confirmed the release and indicated that the hope is to expand the release to other cities and college campuses later in the Spring.

Filmmaker Grant Gee explained that of the 140 hours of footage that were shot on tour, twenty were shot on film and the digital footage was shot with a small Sony PC-7 camera. According to Gee, a digital to film print was finished last week by CFS in London, in time for the Austin debut. “Meeting People is Easy” has already been released on home video in the U.K. and the goal is to do a limited theatrical release as well. The documentary will be released on home video and DVD in the United States later this Spring.

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