USA | 2009
82 minutes
Directors: Bill Guttenberg, Dan Sturman
Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Jim Czarnecki, Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman, Dylan Nelson
Photography: Buddy Squires, Jonathan Else, Stephen Kazmierski
Editor: Jeffrey Doe
Music: John Legend, Wyclef Jean, The Roots, Joss Stone, Blind Boys of Alabama, Anthony Hamilton, Richie Havens, TV on the Radio, Angie Stone, Mary Mary, The Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir
Festivals: Tribeca, Cannes (Out of Competition), Vancouver, Amsterdam Documentary 2009
Audience Award, Vancouver Int Film Festival 2009
Censors rating exempt
The story of the appalling inequality African Americans faced only 50 years ago and the struggle of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement is retold vividly for the Obama generation through image and song. And what song!
Compelling archival footage and witness testimony is interspersed with dynamite contemporary performances of movement anthems by, among others, Wyclef Jean, John Legend, Anthony Hamilton and the Blind Boys of Alabama, Richie Havens, The Roots and Joss Stone (whose stirring rendition of "Eyes on the Prize" is a stand out).
Soundtrack sets out to be rousing and it succeeds. At last year’s Vancouver Film Festival it trumped all comers, documentary or fiction, to win the audience award for best film.
“Even if you’ve seen this footage before, you can’t help but be moved to your core.” — David Fear, Time Out NY
A celebration of the power of music to give strength and hope, Soundtrack for a Revolution is a vibrant, soul-stirring experience.
“It’s a current and universal parable on the very dark
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