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Sophiatown 2003 Free Unlimited Access
Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
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Cast: Jonas Gwangwa, Abdullah Ibrahim, Nelson Mandela, Hugh Masekela, Dorothy Masuka, Jürgen Schadeberg
Crew: Indra De Lanerolle (Producer), Lebohang Morake (Producer), Bheki Khoza (Sound Director), Pascale Lamche (Director), Dominic Black (Cinematography), Pascale Lamche (Producer)
Studio: Little Bird
Runtime: 82 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Aug 16, 2003
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Language: English, Afrikaans