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Screening at The Roxie Theater in San Francisco August 12th! Off the Charts with Musical Performance by The Chuckleberries and Song Contest Join filmmakers Jamie Meltzer and Henry S.Rosenthal and legendary song-poem artist David Fox as they celebrate more than a hundred years of song-poem history and the 20 year anniversary of the cult documentary Off The Charts: The Song-Poem Story. Off The Charts is a fascinating and often hilarious documentary that exposes the strange underworld of the song-poem industry. In this little known subculture, “ordinary people” respond to come-on ads on the back pages of magazines ("Send in Your Lyrics and Make $50,000 in royalties!”), mailing in their heartfelt but often bizarre poems to “music industry” companies that, for a fee, turn those poems into real recordings. Through encounters with several song-poem writers, the jaded producers and musicians who set their words to music, and a few of the growing number of zealous song-poem connoisseurs, Off The Charts explores a truly unique, never-before-seen slice of Gothic Americana. Shocking, funny, and heart-wrenching all at once, Off The Charts is a fascinating look at one of the strangest subcultures in our American landscape. Bay Area favorites The Chuckleberries will be performing a selection of song-poem favorites live onstage, including the winners of the song-poem contest. To enter your poem or lyrics (no music, just words) to the song-poem contest, email your submission to: [email protected].