VIA PRESS RELEASE | The acclaimed documentary Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All is playing in theaters across North America now. Alexandria Bombach’s documentary on the iconic duo premiered on opening night of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was screened at numerous festivals throughout the year including SXSW, Hot Docs, and Tribeca Film Festival. Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories, the film currently holds a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and will be available via video on demand on May 7th. Tickets and additional information on the theatrical release is here.
To celebrate the theatrical release, Oscilloscope Laboratories has shared an exclusive clip from the film that dives into the deep communal connections that the Indigo Girls have created with their fans. “Festival audiences have embraced and celebrated this story of Amy and Emily, and now we get to bring this film to fans in theaters all over the country,” notes Filmmaker Alexandria Bombach. “A film about community should be seen in community.”
“From our earliest days at Little Five Points Community Pub in Atlanta, the ideal of ‘community’ has informed our music and activism,” adds Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. “We feel blessed to have worked with such a compelling crew of folks, who created a document that reflects the vital part our audience, activists, friends, family, and mentors play in our ongoing creative lives.” Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers says, “It is a beautiful documentary that captures the life force of our community. Now our community has an opportunity to see it on the big screen—we are thankful for that.”
With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, “the Indigo Girls saved my life.” Still, Amy and Emily battled misogyny, homophobia, and a harsh cultural climate chastising them for not fitting into a female pop star mold. With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily—alongside decades of the band’s home movies and intimate present-day verité.
