Punk rock band 7 Year Bitch, who were good friends and briefly label mates of The Gits, named their 1994 album "¡Viva Zapata!" in tribute to Mia Zapata. The album cover also featured a painting by artist Scott Musgrove featuring Zapata wearing bullet sashes. The song "M.I.A.", which explicitly deals with Zapata's death, appears on this album. In 1996, "Hype!"—a documentary about the Seattle scene, featuring The Gits—came out. Nine years later, in 2005, a movie chronicling the life of Mia Zapata during her time with The Gits was released. The final cut of the film was released theatrically in over 20 North American cities on July 7, 2008, the 15th memorial anniversary of Zapata's death. The following day saw the film released on DVD along with a "Best of the Gits" CD (both from Liberation Entertainment). The story of the Gits was made into a "lively and engaging" documentary film, titled simply "The Gits", and reflected a renewed interest in the band. The film, directed by Kerri O'Kane, had its first screenings in 2005 at the Seattle International Film Festival. A finalized version of the film was accepted and screened at the 2007 SXSW (South By Southwest) Film Festival held March 9 – March 17, 2007, in Austin, Texas. In her review for NPR, Sarah Bardeen found that "Above all, we fall for the music. Compared to many of their contemporaries, the Gits were instrumentally brilliant, playing fast, tight, classic punk rock which took a radical left turn when Zapata added her voice to the mix". Following the posthumous completion of "", Spleen formed a hardcore punk band called the Dancing French Liberals of '48, and later toured briefly with hardcore legends Poison Idea. Dancing French Liberals of '48 featured all of the remaining Gits as well as longtime friend and guitarist Julian Gibson (ex-DC Beggars). Their music was, as expected, much in the vein of the Gits although with a more hardcore punk attitude. Together the Liberals issued an EP ("Scream Clown Scream") and a full-length album ("Powerline") on the Broken Rekids label before disbanding in the late 1990s. Following Zapata's death, Joan Jett and Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna co-wrote a song (entitled "Go Home") inspired by Zapata's death.