Get To Know Final Fight Family

By Sarah Cobarrubias in Arts & Entertainment on Aug 17, 2012 7:20PM

Final Fight Family is a collective of local creatives who work in a range of mediums, including music, art and design, photography, film, and literature. These artists have come together to Chicago from across the nation to comprise a community based on multimedia collaboration and a pooling of resources.

The whole thing started back in 2000, when then-aspiring-rapper Jarvis Smith and Quinton Hampton started Final Fight Records to serve as a label for their musical act, which eventually evolved into Final Fight Family.

The project stuttered along for nearly a decade, until it was relaunched in 2009 and added some fresh new faces to the Family. Nowadays, the enterprise serves to exhibit and promote its members’ work at events and in the media as well as finding new projects for and encouraging collaboration amongst its artists.

It’s an inspiring account, and so the Family has been working on a documentary to tell their story: YOUNG: The Story of Final Fight Family. It was actually due out back in April, but you know how things go when you’re making art and being hip. But now, the doc is finished and ready for viewing.

To ring in the new documentary, FFF will hold a premiere showing / open gallery / musical showcase that they call EVOLVE. The gallery portion of the event will feature artwork, film, poetry, and photos by AVR, Ichiro Hino, Nate Otto, Remo, Christine Pierce, and Felipe Maldonado. Local acts Está Vivo and The Avantist will provide the musical portion, as well as Yuki Tasaka of Plastic Soy Sauce, who is making his solo debut. EVOLVE goes down Saturday, August 25, at Humboldt Park’s Peanut Gallery, and there will be free food and (non-alcoholic) drinks until 9 p.m..

Have a little taste of the documentary with this trailer: