Apr 15, 7-10PM
$19.5
Join us for a screening and discussion of Peter Asher: Everywhere Man in support of the 50th Anniversary of the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) on April 15th at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Moderated by Alan Light, the discussion panel includes Dan Geller (Director/Producer/Camera), Dayna Goldfine (Director/Producer/Location Sound), and Jeff Alan Ross (Original Score).
About Peter Asher: Everywhere Man
PETER ASHER: EVERYWHERE MAN is a feature-length documentary inspired by musician, producer, and manager Peter Asher’s celebrated cabaret show A Musical Memoir of the ’60s and Beyond. Like his stage performance, the film traces an extraordinary life lived at the center of modern music history. From his early years as a child actor in 1950s London to the Swinging Sixties, Asher emerges as a Zelig-like figure in the culture of the era: one half of the pop duo “Peter and Gordon,” recipients of four chart-topping hits penned by Paul McCartney; the first head of A&R at Apple Records; and co-owner of the Indica Gallery, the epicenter of London’s countercultural art scene.
About The Panel
Alan Light
Alan Light is an Emmy award-winning music journalist. The co-host of the music news podcast Sound Up!, he is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Alan is the former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, and was a senior writer at Rolling Stone and a longtime host on SiriusXM. A graduate of Yale University, he is the author of numerous books, including The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” (which was adapted into an acclaimed documentary), Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of “Purple Rain,” and biographies of Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, and the Beastie Boys, and he was the co-author of best-selling memoirs by Gregg Allman and Peter Frampton.
Dan Geller — Director/Producer/Camera
Dayna Goldfine — Director/Producer/Location Sound
For over 35 years, Emmy-award winning directors/producers Geller and Goldfine have jointly created critically acclaimed multi-character documentary narratives that braid the personal stories of their protagonists to form a larger portrait of the human experience. Their most recent film, HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, debuted in September 2021 at both the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals, had a worldwide theatrical release via Sony Pictures Classics and was shortlisted for a documentary Oscar. Hallelujah is currently streaming on Hulu.
Geller and Goldfine’s work also includes The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013), which had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and its European premiere in Berlin, and played theatrically internationally; Something Ventured (2011), which premiered at SXSW and went on to play festivals and screen internationally, as well as in educational distribution, VOD and DVD worldwide, including a national PBS broadcast in January 2013; Ballets Russes (2005), which was recognized as one of the top five documentaries of 2005 by the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, appeared on a dozen critical top-ten lists, including Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle and Slate; Now and Then: From Frosh to Seniors, which premiered theatrically in October 1999 and aired on PBS in October 2000 as the lead program of the Independent Lens series; Kids of Survival: The Art and Life of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (1996), a feature-length documentary about the South Bronx-based art group, which aired on Cinemax in September 1998 and was the recipient of two national Emmy Awards; Frosh: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm (1994); and, the award-winning Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul (1988).
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine were admitted to the Documentary Branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2014.
Jeff Alan Ross, Original Score
Jeff Alan Ross is musical director and co-producer of Peter Asher: A Memoir of the 60’s and Beyond as well as the co-producer of Asher’s extremely popular show From Me to You on Sirius XM’s Beatles channel. In the 1980s, Jeff became a member of the legendary band, Badfinger, singing such classics as “No Matter What,” and “Day After Day.” In 2006, Jeff was the musical director for the reunion of 60s British invasion duo Peter & Gordon, until Gordon’s untimely passing in 2009. Recently, he joined The Lovin’ Spoonful as its front man.
About Cleveland International Film Festival
Founded in 1977, the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is a leading cultural institution dedicated to showcasing the power of film to educate, entertain, and celebrate inclusive human experiences. For 50 years, CIFF has curated socially conscious and artistically significant films from around the globe, fostering dialogue, connection, and cultural understanding. Through year-round programming and its annual Festival, CIFF continues to play a vital role in renewing the Greater Cleveland community by bringing audiences together through the transformative power of storytelling. Among the longest-running & largest film festivals in the USA, CIFF is an Academy®-qualifying festival and one of seven Resident Companies of Playhouse Square.
PARKING: Paid meters and parking lots are available around the museum on East 9th St., Erieside Ave., Alfred Lerner Way (in front of FirstEnergy Stadium) and at the Great Lakes Science Center. You can also use these links to park in other downtown lots, reserve your parking spot in advance or to take public transportation. All sales final, tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase unless the performance is canceled.