DEATH METAL ANGOLA
by Jeremy Xido
USA/Angola 2012 83 min. Portuguese original version with English subtitles
tue 19 nov 6:00 pm Murnau Filmtheater
Script: Jeremy Xido, DoP: Johan Legraie, Jeremy Xido, Editor: Todd Holmes, Production: CABULA6, Coalition Films, Producers: Jeremy Xido, Joseph Castelo, with: Sonia Ferreira, Wilker Flores, Alberto Jongolo, Jayro Cardoso, Queiros Ladino Cumpanhe
After a 14-year struggle for independence followed by more than a quarter-century of civil war, Angola is a country sunk in devastation. Death Metal is the music of a generation of people growing up with the failed promises of the post-war world in Angola. They consider themselves on the brink of a new history, but are disappointed by failed attempts to reconstruct their country after the war.
"Sonia Ferreira and Wilker Flores live and breathe hardcore rock and roll. They run the Okutiuka orphanage in the war-ravaged city of Huambo, Angola and dream of mounting the first-ever national rock concert. Raucous and righteous, DEATH METAL ANGOLA follows their story, giving audiences a look at a rock show off the grid that is fulfilling, haunting, and real." (production note)
Biography: Jeremy Xido graduated in Painting and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York and trained at the Actor’s Studio. Since 2003 he has been the artistic co-director of the performance and film company CABULA6, which has produced and presented work for both film and stage all over the world. He is known in Europe as a performance artist with a unique artistic voice and approach to stage and film, blending emotionally gripping personal stories with the larger social contexts within which they emerge. Working as a dancer, actor and filmmaker, he has performed and presented work around the world on stage, TV and in cinema.
Filmography: 2006 CRIME EUROPE, 2007 MACONDO (short film), 2010 DRAMA QUEEN (short film), 2012 DEATH METAL ANGOLA
www.deathmetalangola.com
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