Music documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin will be screened at a special event in Amsterdam as part of the IBC Conference, taking place from 12-14 Sept.
Prior to the special screening, an IBC Conference session titled ‘How Becoming Led Zeppelin was Created’ will be held on Saturday, September 13 at 11.30 am CEST in the Auditorium Complex of the RAI Amsterdam.
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The documentary was distributed across Europe earlier this year by Sony Pictures Classics in partnership with Piece of Magic Entertainment and holds the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend across IMAX theatres worldwide and is the most watched documentary of 2025 across all platforms. The documentary reveals the origins of the iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. It is the first documentary film Led Zeppelin have ever agreed to appear in.
Becoming Led Zeppelin Director Bernard MacMahon and Sound Supervisor Nicholas Bergh will fly in from Los Angeles for an in depth talk on the mechanics of creating the film and will reveal how a vast archive of 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, 2” video, tape, disc and stills were transferred and sculpted into a cohesive whole for the record-breaking IMAX release.
Later, Saturday, September 13 at 7 pm CEST, the IBC special event screening of Becoming Led Zeppelin and exclusive Q&A with MacMahon and Bergh will take place at the newly completed Cinema The Pulse, scheduled to officially open in October 2025.
MacMahon commented: “Bringing Becoming Led Zeppelin to Amsterdam for a special screening with the IBC is a real honour. Led Zeppelin only played Amsterdam twice during their career, once right in the middle of the period we cover in the film, so being able to give the Dutch audience a chance to see them again in their prime is extremely exciting.”
Jo Mayer, IBC’s Head of Marketing, added: “IBC is the perfect home for a screening of this phenomenal documentary. So many of the media and entertainment technology companies present at the conference had a hand in making this film and it will be a thrill to see it on the screen. We are excited to bring this film and the Q&A and the morning panel session with Bernard and Nick to our conference attendees.”
Tickets for the special screening and Q&A can be purchased via Cinema The Pulse here.
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