Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
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Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday November 2, 2009
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Concordia
This special screening is in collaboration with Rhymes, Rhythms & Resistance: 5th Annual Symposium on Hiphop Culture.
First Film:Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
An in-depth look at manhood, sexism and homophobia in rap music and hip-hop culture.
Byron Hurt / USA / 2007 / 60 min
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.
Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.
The documentary features revealing interviews about masculinity and sexism with rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson and Beverly Guy-Shetfall.
Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture.
Trailer
Credits
Producer: Byron Hurt
Director: Byron Hurt
Writer: Byron Hurt
Co-Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
Editor: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
Director of Photography: Bill Winters
Additional Photography: Rico Beard, Byron Hurt, Napoleon Juaniza, Kazz Pinkard, Parrish Smith
Sound: Andre Artis, Kerry Hustwit, Caleb Mose, David Pruge, Jay Lavely, Suzi Lee
Graphic Designer: Katie Marsh/Kounterattack Design
Awards & Festivals
Official Selection, 2006 Roxbury Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 American Black Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 San Francisco Black Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Hot Docs International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Atlanta Hip Hop Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam)
Official Selection, 2006 Urban World Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Film site & Reviews
» Wiretap
Second Film: Sedition
Two Canadian spoken word performers explore issues around media, race and politics.
Min Sook Lee / Canada / 2008 / 16 min
Commissioned by PEN Canada in 2008, Sedition is a 16-minute documentary by Min Sook Lee that explores issues around media and bias, and sensitive issues in the classroom.
Sedition profiles two young spoken-word artists who grapple with issues of racism and censorship, and offer their thoughts on the power of poetry to effect social change. The featured artists, Boonaa Mohammed and Rafeef Ziadah, perform their poetry, tell their stories, and artfully challenge viewers' thinking about education, bias and freedom of expression.
Schools and communities that book performances as part of The TAXI Project's spring 2009 tour received a copy of Sedition for viewing.
Toronto Palestine Film Festival (2008)
ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival (2009)
Festival de Films sur les Droits de la Personne de Montreal (2009)
London Palestine Film Festival (2009)
Chicago Palestine Film Festival (2009)
Oxdox International Documentary Film Festival (2009)
TRANSFORMING CLASSROOMS AND STREETS: LIFE LESSONS OF POETS AND BEAT MASTERS, Toronto 2009
Film site & Reviews
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