ANDREW WOOD Malfunkshun movie poster 2005 MOTHER LOVE BONE / PEARL JAM RARE

  
Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story. "Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story, " a movie about the life of the former Bainbridge Island resident and rock singer who died in 1990 at age 24, is showing in Seattle on Saturday, June 4, and again next week. Wood was the lead singer for the band Mother Love Bone in the late 1980s. The band was signed to a record deal and was able to record ony one album before Wood died of a heroin overdose. For 10 years, "Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story" has been a dream in the minds of just a few people who can call Andrew Wood family, even though Scot Barbour, the film's director, had never met Andrew. According to Barbour, the idea first struck him when he started trying to figure out why people like Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave) would make a tribute album to Wood. Barbour said he had trouble at first trying to get people to talk to him.

Once the Wood family came on board, more people were willing to share what they knew. "It (the film) is really about how two young men's dreams came together, " said Andrew's mother, Toni Wood, who no longer lives on Bainbrige. Toni said she worked with Barbour as much as she could to help get her son's story out. She feels there are many similar qualities between Barbour and her son and, although she knows Andy can never be replaced, feels as though Barbour has become like a son to her.

"Scot (Barbour) and Andy have inspired me to live my life to the fullest, " Toni said. Kevin Wood, Andy's brother and guitarist for Malfunkshun, said he feels helping to make the film was - and continues to be - a celebration of Andy's life. All those involved, including Kevin, Toni and Stone Gossard, guitarist for Mother Love bone and currently a member of Pearl Jam, said no one thought the movie would ever get finished, but all are excited to see the film's release Satruday as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. The showing is at 6:30 p. At the Neptune Theatre, 303 NE 45th St. A repeat showing is at 7 p. Thursday, June 9, at Experience Music Project at the Seattle Center. "It was amazing to see his (Barbour's) persistence (in the making of the film), " Gossard said. The film uses animations, notes, pictures and video from Andy Wood's life, interspersed with segments of interviews with many family members, friends and artists who knew him during his rise to the forefront of the Seattle music scene, including Cornell and Gossard and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, as well as colleagues and producers in the music business. Barbour said the film is not meant to be a biography of Wood's life, and that he tried to keep himself out of it as much as possible to let Wood tell his own story - a story he said he felt must be told.

"It was a dose of both personal want and need to tell people the story, " Barbour said.