First "TBA" AFF Title Announced!

This afternoon, the good folks at the Austin Film Festival announced Rock-afire Explosion as the first of two "TBA" titles slated for this year's festival (second if you count the very funny Role Models, which was announced fairly late in the game).

Rock-afire Explosion chronicles the resurgence of the titular animatronic band who "broke up" in the early 90s when Showbiz Pizza, the restaurant chain that employed* them, was pretty much absorbed by Chuck E. Cheese's. Most hardcore Explosion fans had figured the band for dead, until the internet brought them back to life last year via YouTube's magic, star-making powers.

We're not sure, but we think this will be the film's premiere (neither the google, nor the film's website are giving us much to go on here). If the trailer is any indication, Rock-afire could be a really great, feel-good documentary--maybe even a top-notch music doc of the strangest kind.

*Employed meaning "made use of", jerks. We know they're not real performing animals.