The Story of Lovers Rock is a documentary film by Menelik Shabazz that tells the story of how Lovers Rock music defined a generation in the late 70's and 80's hugely impacting on British Pop Culture.
„Let your Eyes follow your Ears“ lautet der Untertitel des Dokumentarfilms "15 Corners of the World" von Zuzanna Solakiewicz, die mit ihrem Film die Antwort auf die Frage liefert, wie man Töne in Bilder fassen kann. Mit Schere und Tonband hat ihr Protagonist Eugenisz Rudnik…
From the ravages of a devastated post-Katrina New Orleans, a newfound hope emerges in the form of a free-spirited young woman with a big voice. Meschiya Lake has been a runaway, train-hopper, mud-wrestler, glass-eater in the traveling circus and cross-continent traveler and now she has found a home…
Uncover the secrets of Hall of Fame band Parliament Funkadelic. Members open up about money, exploits, and the creativity behind a unique genre of music. This is untold story of the rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever. Featuring Billy Nelson, Cordell Mosson, Gary Shider, Grady Thomas, Clarence…
Started in the 1980s as a fabricated movement intended to punk the punk scene, Queercore quickly became a real-life cultural community of LGBTQ music and movie-making revolutionaries. From the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push back against…
A journey into the past and the future of Italo Disco music through the stories of the original 80's heroes and cult DJs and the voice of the new generation of artists, radio broadcasters and fans ready to carry on the Italo Disco Legacy. Featuring interviews with Fred Ventura, Rago & Farina,…
Faith's adaptation of The Gospel According to Scrooge, a musical with a message. Over the years, Faith Assembly has modified many elements of this show, including new additions and adjustments this year. This is the twenty-ninth year for Scrooge at Faith. This adaptation takes from the original…
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important…
Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge’s Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to one of the most recognizable,…
In 1996, the Washington D.C. band, The Make-Up were filmed on the road, heading towards the great northern climes, with asylum in mind. This 30 minute, 16mm film, captures these Dischord recording artists' intense congregational performances. Featuring Ian Svenonius, James Canty, Michelle Mae,…
In February, 2010, the legendary Chilean band "Panico" traveled through the desert of northern Chile with the challenge of recording a new album in the Atacama desert. After two decades of punk and post-punk rock, these offspring of political exiles are themselves rocked by not only the strange…
Is this a film about Scrooge? About a composer’s life? An opera within an opera? "The Passion of Scrooge" blurs these lines between performance, documentary, and fiction, into a cinematic concert experience that’s seasoned with magical reality. Composer Jon Deak has adapted Charles…
