Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop
Director/Producer: Raeshem Chopra Nijhon
34 min.
US, 2005
Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop gives a voice to South Asian MC's, beatboxers, spoken word artists and producers. With Hip-Hop as its lens, this documentary is a colorful portrait of the rainbow of political ideals, social messages and experiences that is in part young South Asian Americans today, revealing an emerging layer of this second-generation community. Through their music and their lives, these artists speak on everything from racial profiling post 9/11 to identity in second-generation immigrant communities, forcing us to question "traditional" South Asian existence in America in fresh new ways.
Women In Battle
Director/Producer: Samantha Marie "La Alta"
28:34 min.
US, 2005
Women in Battle is a short documentary about the New York City based B-girl crew Tru-Essencia (T.E.C.), with footage collected over the last two and a half years. The film provides an intimate and inspiring look at these six dynamic young women. The members of T.E.C. represent what Hip-Hop has become today. The crew is comprised of women from different races as well as diverse economic upbringings.
The Beat Back Bush Workout
Director: Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Producer: Rhode Island School of Design/ Brown University Collaborative
18 min.
US, 2005
A captivating and satirical multimedia project that invites people to exercise their minds, bodies, and rights. It is an educational, informational, and motivational video that seeks to ignite the Hip-Hop Generation in their fight for social justice. Inspired by music videos and other contemporary media, the video features dance, kickboxing, yoga, jazzercise, break-dancing, Hip-Hop, animation, original spoken word and music. The video addresses a plethora of issues and policies including: education, abortion, drug policy, globalization, the war, gay rights, civil rights, and prison issues. While challenging the state of our country, the video also challenges the state of mainstream Hip-Hop by sampling from rap songs and artists largely viewed as misogynistic, and re-writing them into revolutionary songs of protest performed through the voices and bodies of Hip-Hop generation women.
Rubber Soles
Director/Producer: Christine Turner
10 min.
US, 2005
An eleven-year old music collector trades in his prized soul records when he falls for a thirteen-year old girl with a nice jump shot.
United Nations of Hip-Hop
Director: Christina Choe
Producer: Christina Choe/Esther Baker
9:30 min.
US/Senegal, 2005
French with English subtitles
United Nations of Hip-Hop is a short documentary about Hip-Hop and globalization in Senegal, West Africa. In the film, MC's talk about African debt dependency, Islam, unemployment, and poverty over powerful beats. Interviews with the Senegalese Hip-Hop community is accompanied by stunning footage of Tupac murals, mosques, and barefooted b-boys. This film is a work in progress seeking additional funding to complete production in Cuba and The Middle East.
GirlFight (Trailer)
Director/Producer: Timiza Sanyika
7:22 min.
US, 2006
Girlfight is a feature length documentary film that discusses the ups and downs of being a woman in Hip-Hop. Women have been a part of Hip-Hop since the musical art form burst onto the scene in the late 70's. Given this fact, it's very strange that women's history has not been mentioned in any real detail. Girlfight will finally set the record straight and explore the fights that females face in gaining respect and acceptance in a male dominated genre, the dramatic and often violent beefs between Hip-Hop women competing for the few spots offered to ladies in the rap biz, to the pivotal point when the image of women changed in Hip-Hop to the overly sexualized image that represent women in Hip-Hop today.
Ancestors Watching (Music Video)
Director: Tania Cuevas Martinez
Producer: Fritz Gerald, Leba Haber, Larry Lowe, Mitch Schultz, Marvin Scott
5 min.
US, 2005
Ancestors Watching, executive produced by Warrington Hudlin (of House Party, Boomerang, and Posse fame), stars Brooklyn's own Hip-Hop/spoken word poetry champion Bryonn Bain; bilingual duo of verse, Climbing PoeTree; and the Indo-Soul diva, Anjali. The track pays homage to the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of our ancestors - from Harriet to Fridha, Sojourner to Ray, Ghandi to Garvery, Malcolm to Martin and many more.
SlingShot Hip-Hop: The Palestinian Lyrical Front (Trailer)
Director: Jackie Salloum
5 min.
US/Palestine, 2006
Arabic with English Subtitles
SlingShot Hip-Hop is a documentary film that focuses on the daily life of Palestinian rappers living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel. It aims to spotlight alternative voices of resistance within the Palestinian struggle and explore the role their music plays within their social, political and personal lives. Coming Fall 2006. For more information, visit www.slingshothiphop.com. |
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