Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong narrates the revolution that punk built in a Berkeley basement.
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of the inspiring 924 Gilman Street collective. This diverse group of artists, writers, organizers and musicians created a do-it-yourself petri dish that changed the punk scene... and the world at large.
Direction
Corbett Redford packs 30 years into kinetic, lovingly chaotic storytelling.
Production
Animated flyers and rare footage make history feel alive, not archival.
Sound
The mix is loud, messy, perfect — exactly like the scene it documents.
Director
Corbett Redford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Corbett Redford spent seven years on this, funding it partly through punk benefits — the film itself became a Gilman-style DIY project.
The documentary captures Rancid, Green Day and Operation Ivy before fame, but its real subject is the volunteer-run collective that outlasted most of its famous alumni.
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