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Parkway of Broken Dreams
Directed byPj Perez
Produced byPj Perez
Edited byPj Perez
Production
company
Distributed byFilmhub, National Educational Telecommunications Association
Release date
  • October 13, 2021 (2021-10-13)
Running time
79 min.
LanguageEnglish

Parkway of Broken Dreams is a 2021 documentary film produced and directed by filmmaker Pj Perez. The documentary follows the rise and fall of the independent art and music scene that developed near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the 1990s.[1]

The world premiere of the film was held at Galaxy Theatres in Las Vegas in October 2021.[2] It was distributed to American public television stations in 2022 by the National Educational Telecommunications Association.[3] The film also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2021 Silver State Film Festival in Las Vegas [4] and a "Ten Degrees Hotter" Award at the 2021 Valley Film Festival [5] for Feature Documentary. The film was also distributed to various video on demand and streaming services, including iTunes Store and Xumo.[6]

Synopsis edit

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a poetry, arts, and music scene develops near UNLV along Maryland Parkway, a major thoroughfare on the eastside of Las Vegas, centered around the coffeehouses, record stores, and bars that typify the college area.[7]

As the 1990s come to a close, a variety of factors leads to the decline of the culture in that area, including the closing of several businesses, a change in format for college radio station KUNV, and the emergence of 18b The Las Vegas Arts District in Downtown Las Vegas.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ "For documentary filmmaker, it's lights, camera, Maryland Parkway". KNPR's State of Nevada. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  2. ^ "'It shouldn't have ended': New doc captures the '90s heyday of Maryland Parkway". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  3. ^ "NETA Program Catalog Page". NETA. 26 March 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  4. ^ "2021 Awards". Silver State Film Festival. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  5. ^ "VFF21". The Valley Film Festival. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  6. ^ "'PJ Perez Lifts Local Voices in Maryland Parkway Documentary'". Off the Strip. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
  7. ^ "Resurrecting the Bohemian ghosts of the parkway". NevadaState.news. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  8. ^ "'UNLV alumnus PJ Perez tells story of Maryland Parkway's culture scene in new documentary'". The Scarlet and Gray. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 2024-04-07.

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