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Sophiatown (2003)
Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
Updated May 27 2020
Cast
Abdullah Ibrahim
Himself
Nelson Mandela
Himself
Hugh Masekela
Himself
Dolly Rathebe
herself
Jürgen Schadeberg
Himself
Dorothy Masuka
Herself
Crew
James Mitchell
Producer
Pascale Lamche
Writer
Pascale Lamche
Director
Pascale Lamche
Producer
Indra De Lanerolle
Producer
Rob Lowdon
Producer
Lebohang Morake
Producer
Dominic Black
Cinematography
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