Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of The Back Room
Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of The Back Room is a documentary feature film that chronicles one of most notoriously known (and often disregarded) music venues in Austin, Texas. It’s a film that spans the 33 year history of the east Riverside club, from its meager beginnings in the early 70s as a watering hole for country folk and bikers, to its glory years of 80s glam rock and metal, through its 90s grunge and hardcore era, and into the early 2000s punk and hip hop scene, before it’s demise in 2006. The film tells the story of the club through nearly 70 interviews with various musicians, former staff, journalists, and fans, and incorporates thousands of pieces of archive videos, photos, ticket stubs, flyers, and even highly stylized reenactments.
J. Budro Partida is an Emmy award-winning video producer and award-winning filmmaker from Austin, Texas.
He has worked professionally in television and media production since 1997. His spectrum of work includes award-winning films and music videos, television commercials, multiple television series, and the Emmy award-winning late night TV series, “Austin After Hours”.
He is a 14-time Telly Award winner (including two Silver Tellys), and has garnered multiple industry awards throughout his career.
His short documentary “Sunset at Dry Creek” won “Best Short Documentary” at Austin Indie Fest (2023), “Best Documentary” at The Longhorn Film Festival (2022) , and “Best Short Documentary” at the Grand New York Film Awards (2022). In 2020, his micro-short, “Devastated” won the Platinum Award (beating 375+ other short films) and named Season 6 Winner of the 15 Second Horror Film Challenge Competition in 2020. His 2019 werewolf short, “Bewere”, won “Best Horror Film” at the 2020 Austin Indie Fest, “Best Picture” at the 2020 Demonic Brilliance Film Festival and won “Best Horror Short” at the 2019 San Antonio Horrific Film Fest. In 2024, he completed a feature-length music documentary titled “Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of The Back Room” which is already starting to garner awards in the film-festival circuit.
In 2013, he formed his production company, PennyRock Productions LLC, with the company motto “A National Look on a Local Budget”. PennyRock Productions LLC has been providing Central Texas and the surrounding areas with professional, award-winning video and media services specializing in client commercial production, film, music videos, and promotional materials for online advertising since 1997.
This film took 4 years to complete. I have been in film and television for over 25 years, and this is by far the greatest (and most challenging) project I have ever taken on in my career…and I’m damn proud of it.