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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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 2003-08-16
- video_camera_front Companies Little Bird
- timer Runtime: 82 Mins
- star Rating: 6 / 10
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- info IMDB ID tt0399675
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Jonas Gwangwa
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Abdullah Ibrahim
Self
Nelson Mandela
Self
Hugh Masekela
Self
Dorothy Masuka
Self
Jürgen Schadeberg
Self
Dolly Rathebe
Self
groups Crew
Indra De Lanerolle
Producer
Lebohang Morake
Producer
Bheki Khoza
Sound Director
Pascale Lamche
Director
Dominic Black
Cinematography
Pascale Lamche
Producer
James Mitchell
Producer
Catherine Meyburgh
Editor
Rob Lowdon
Producer
Wilbert Schübel
Sound Editor
Pascale Lamche
Writer
Louise Mycielski
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