Kevin Hegge Biography
Kevin Hegge (Writer, Director) is a filmmaker and sometimes writer based in Toronto. He loves to make feature length documentaries about artists and weirdos, of which he has made two. He ’s also a freelance writer, again, usually about music, art, and subculture. His first feature length film, She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column, premiered in 2012 at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.
The film focused on the disruptive history and pioneering influence of the aforementioned Toronto-based, pioneering feminist post-punk art collective who spawned Riot Grrrl. It later won Best Canadian Film at The Inside Out LGBT Film Festival. In March 2022, Hegge premiered his second feature, Tramps!, a London UK-based doc which charts the death of Punk, the New Romantics, and the artist’s survival.
The film was selected as the closing night gala film at the BFI Flare film festival, and later as the central gala film at the Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival in Toronto. Tramps! Was met with rave reviews from trade journals such as “Screen Daily”. Website Loud and Clear says about the film: “The closing film at this year’s BFI Flare Festival, TRAMPS! is less a documentary and more an audio-visual whirlwind.
Right from the beginning, composers Matthew Sims and Verity Susman (and the film’s exemplary sound department) produce a blistering wall of sound. It’s electric and almost industrial, correlating with the synths later used in the 1980s to generate synthpop and conquer America. But it’s also loud and abrasive, as radical as the strong, flamboyant and charismatic personalities that Hegge focuses on.
” Tramps! currently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film saw an official release in December 2023, via Bohemia Media in the UK, and Game Theory Films in Canada, and early 2024 in the USA via Good Deed Entertainment.
