Hermosa’s two-fisted punch: “Jazz v. Punk”
Former Minuteman Mike Watt (center) with filmmakers Brendan Hirsch, Garrett Barghash, Michelle Crispin, and Julie NunisHermosa’s Jazz, punk legacy to be featured at MB film fest “Jazz v. Punk”—I think it’s a draw by Bondo Wyszpolski The Florana International Film Festival takes place Friday and Saturday atop the Manhattan Village Mall parking structure with the same 25-30 short films each evening. One of the highlights of the event was shot mainly in Hermosa Beach: “Jazz v. Punk.” The nearly 40-minute film essentially asks one question, but it’s a big one: How is it that a 1.4 square mile town was home to two seemingly opposite styles of music? Directed by Julie Nunis and working from a script and/or storyline by Michelle Crispin, “Jazz v. Punk” was originally to be focused on the Lighthouse, key to the West Coast jazz scene, which Howard Rumsey put on the map beginning in 1949. It also intended to put its high beams on Ozzie Cadena (who in the 1950s produced jazz artists on the East Coast) and his wife, Gloria. The two of them promoted jazz for decades at the Lighthouse and other South Bay venues. But their son, Dez, proved to be the fly in the ointment and the catalyst for a…
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