AfroPop

Producer Chat ~ “Calypso Rose: Lioness of the Jungle”

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:33:14 +0000

Filmmaker Pascale Obolo takes some time to talk about her new film “Calypso Rose: Lioness of the Jungle.” A wonderful and epic travel documentary about the life of the queen of Calypso music, Calypso Rose part of season 4.0 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. To learn more about Calypso Rose and her music, visit her website.

Producer Chat ~ “E Minha Cara (That’s My Face)”

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:27:16 +0000

Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris takes some time to talk about his motivations for making his classic 8mm documentary that spans the African Diaspora from Brazil to the Bronx, Tanzania, and beyond. Part of season 4.0 of “AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.” For more on Thomas Allen Harris’ works visit http://DDFR.tv.

Producer Chat ~ “Burning in the Sun”

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:23:13 +0000

Co-director Morgan Robinson takes some time to talk with AfroPoP about his upcoming film “Burning in the Sun” featured in season 4.0 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.

Producer Chat ~ “Everyday Sunshine”

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:19:02 +0000

Co-directors of “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone take some time to chat about the film, their reason for making it, the challenges they experienced and their love of Fishbone. Check it out, and for more on the film visit http://fishbonedocumentary.com

Everyday Sunshine Promo

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:22:09 +0000

From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan’s America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years.

With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation. Telling it like it is, the iconic Laurence Fishburne narrates EVERYDAY SUNSHINE, a story about music, history, fear, courage and funking on the one.

Burning in the Sun Promo

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:21:53 +0000

An inspirational portrait of a young man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling them to rural customers in Mali who’ve never before lived with electricity.

E Minha Cara Promo

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:20:04 +0000

Astoundingly beautiful and epic in scope, That’s My Face (é minha cara) is a personal documentary offering an entire generation of African Americans a groundbreaking perspective on the maddening diasporic search for a mythic motherland.

In healing his own cultural yearnings, director Thomas Allen Harris journeys beyond the political movements of his day and into a spiritual realm where he finds much more then he expects.

Calypso Rose Promo

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:18:27 +0000

Calypso Rose is an ambassador of Caribbean music, a living legend, a charismatic character, the uncontested diva of Calypso Music. Paris, New York, Trinidad, Tobago, back to Africa, in each place, we learn a little more about the many faces and facets of her life.

It is a film not only about memory, the exchange and discovery of world cultures, but also about the journey of a militant and authentic woman, an Afro-Caribbean soul, an exemplary artist, far from the glitz and glitter, at the dawn of her life.

Everyday Sunshine: Extra: Fishbone is Punk Rock

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:15:11 +0000

Fishbone was influenced by punk rock and ended up redefining the scene as they crashed onto it.

Everyday Sunshine Extra: Crack

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:13:36 +0000

Born out of the ashes of the crack epidemic, Fishbone allowed their environment to color the tone of their punk rock and it was music to many ears, and a solid political message to others.