Sophiatown

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Director: Pascale Lamche

Date of release: 16 Aug 2003

Description

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.

Extra

Runtime	82 minute
Producer	Little Bird Productions
Language	English Afrikaans
Themes	woman director music africa south africa apartheid gangster musician jazz
Actors	Abdullah Ibrahim Nelson Mandela Hugh Masekela Dolly Rathebe Jonas Gwangwa Dorothy Masuka Jürgen Schadeberg