With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
Themselves (archive footage)
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