Mexico City, February 24. The iconic band, Led Zeppelin, has broken its silence and released the first full-length documentary authorized by and about them: Becoming Led Zeppelin , directed by filmmaker Bernard MacMahon and produced by Allison McGourty.
The film explores the band's origins and rise. Driven by stunning, psychedelic, and never-before-seen imagery, performances, and music, the film is told in Led Zeppelin's own words and is the first officially authorized film about the group.
The film's backstory is almost as dynamic as the band's. In 2017, director Bernard MacMahon and producer and writer Allison McGourty completed 10 years of research on American Epic.
MacMahon says: “After American Epic, we were looking for our next film, ideally one that explored the next big turning point, and we decided it was 1968. That year saw the advent of the multi-track recording machine, the explosion of the transistor radio, the beginnings of mass live outdoor events, and the industrialization of entertainment, in which a vast global record industry combined with a vast global radio and television network to broadcast new music into hundreds of millions of homes simultaneously.”
