The award-winning documentary film Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore will debut in Minneapolis Saturday, June 9th, 7pm.

Following the screening, representatives from local independent bookstores (and other small businesses) will participate in a roundtable discussion about the struggle to keep independent stores alive in the face of big box retail.

Indies Under Fire, by producer/director Jacob Bricca and producer Jonathan Crosby, was the winner of Best Short Documentary at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.

In the span of just a decade, over half of the nation's independent bookstores vanished. This revealing documentary tells the stories of three such stores fighting for survival. In Capitola, California, a developer's plans to bring Borders to town prompts a fierce debate over the rights of "big box" retailers to locate in a place famous for its small town charm. In Palo Alto, news of the closing of Printers Inc. Bookstore prompts a local citizen to mortgage his house to try to save it. And in Santa Cruz, when a Borders moves in down the street from the town's oldest bookstore, protests and vandalism ensue. This compelling hour-long film follows these stories and raises tough questions about the place of local culture in an increasingly homogenized world.