The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?
A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a large-scale sugar cane plantation. Land Rush documents the hopes, fears, wishes, and demands of small-scale subsistence farmers in the region who look to benefit, or lose out, from the deal.
Documental sobre Youssou N’Dour, la voz de Senegal, el músico africano más famoso de la historia. Sigue al músico creando su disco "Egypt", una exploración musical del islam. Este documental se estrenó en Europa a finales de noviembre en el International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Con este disco quiere demostrar que el islam no es una religión solamente para los árabes, también es la religión de muchos asiáticos y africanos.
