Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Subtitle on container: South Africa through the eyes of its artists
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Other authors / contributors: | Gamse, Laura, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.
De Villiers, Jacques, film director, editor of moving image work, composer (expression)
Myburgh, Bernard, director of photography.
Jansen, Emile, composer (expression), interviewee (expression)
Faith 47, 1979- interviewee (expression)
Pearl, Blaq, interviewee (expression)
Mapoyi, Mthetho, interviewee (expression)
Warongx (Musical group), composer (expression), interviewee (expression)
Sweat.X (Musical group), composer (expression), interviewee (expression)
Daydream Reels (Firm), film distributor.
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Physical medium: | DVD 4 3/4 in.
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Sound characteristics: | digital optical stereo
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Digital file characteristics: | video file DVD video all regions
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Language / Script: | This video has limited public performance rights and may be shown in a classroom, screened by a public group that is not charged for the viewing, or transmitted on a closed-circuit system within a building or single campus.
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Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010. Extras: Trailer; Additional scenes: "Long, long, long ago" (Ongx, on his mother), The Three Tenors at work busking at the waterfront, Khayelitsha blues (Warongx performance), Warongx technicians : multiskilled musicians, Heal the Hood climbs Table Mountain, Sweat.Xpedition (extended dance sequence). Cinematography, Bernard Myburgh ; edited by Jacques de Villiers, Laura Gamse ; original music composed by Ongx Mona, Emile Jansen, Janine Van Rooy (Blaq Pearl), Markus Wormstorm, Jacques de Villiers, Jacob Israel, Sweat.X ; production manager, Issac Sobe. Featuring graffiti artist Faith47 ; afro-blues duo Warongx (Ongx Mona, Wandile "Wara" Zintwana) ; hip-hop artist Emile Jansen ; spoken-word poet Blaq Pearl; opera singer Mthetho Mapoyi; performance artists/glam rap duo Sweat.X (Spoek Mathambo, Markus Wormstorm). DVD; NTSC; all regions; aspect ratio 16:9; stereo. In English with Xhosa and Afrikaans dialogs; English subtitles.
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Summary: | A documentary that explores the reality of post-apartheid South Africa through its artists. "The Creators brings into focus the invisible connections among strangers' disparate lives -- and the creative expression used to traverse the divide."--Website.
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Awards: | Winner: Best Documentary, National Georgraphic, All Roads Film Festival, 2011; Best Music Documentary, World Music & Independent Film Festival, 2011.
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Standard no.: | 884501650878
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