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애비 로드 스튜디오는 90년 넘게 음악 산업의 심장부로 자리매김됐다. 기억과 발견인 이 개인적인 영상에서, 메리 매카트니는 세상에서 가장 유명하고 가장 오래 이어져 온 스튜디오를 만드는 창조적인 마법을 보고 경험할 수 있는 90년 역사로 안내한다. 클래식에서 팝, 영화 음악, 힙합에 이르기까지, 'If These Walls Could Sing'은 애비 로드 스튜디오의 범위와 다양성, 창의력을 탐험한다. 뛰어난 아티스트, 프로듀서 작곡가 및 애비 로드의 헌신적인 엔지니어, 스태프들이 어떤 방식으로 음악 언어와 유대감을 찾았는지 친밀한 인터뷰를 통해 들여다본다. 한편 생생한 기록 영상과 세션 테이프는 시청자들이 은밀하기로 유명한 이 스튜디오에 접근할 특별한 기회를 선사한다.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason made history in 2016 when he became the first black winner of the BBC Young Musician competition. Sheku has six musically gifted siblings and this film explores their extraordinary talents and issues of diversity in classical music. We follow Sheku and his brothers and sisters and examine the sacrifices that parents Stuart and Kadie make in order to support their children in pursuing their musical dreams. Told through the prism of family life we get an understanding of what it is that drives this family to be the best musicians they can be. At the heart of the story is 17-year-old Sheku, and we see him coming to terms with his Young Musician win and the pressures and opportunities it brings. His life is changing dramatically as he now has to learn to deal with the challenges of becoming a world-renowned cellist.
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Shot across 16mm, VHS, DV, and Digital, Breakfast in Kisumu is a personal homage to the 20-year journey of renowned professor and political activist Rok Ajulu. Filmed across six countries between Europe and Africa, with a proxy-archival quality, it follows Rok’s account of his struggles as an exiled freedom fighter of the post-colonial, apartheid era. In conversation with his daughter, he tells of his numerous deportations, prison sentences, and academic career. As Rok recounts the collapse of the apartheid regime, Breakfast in Kisumu shows us a homecoming: his journey back to Africa for the transition of the African National Congress (ANC) from a liberation movement into a governing party, his marriage into the Sisulu Family, and the continental significance of 1994.
