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Short film about Konstantin, a boy who stutters.
ATL: The Untold Story of Atlanta's Rise in the Rap Game is a 90-minute documentary for VH1 that explores how Atlanta earned the mantle of hip-hop dominance, pioneering a seismic shift in American music.
Randy and Kizzy's curiosity about their family's dark history with slaves exposes them to an eerie threat that will stop at nothing to settle a centuries-old score. Directors
Andrew BrooksRayshun Johnson
Writers
Andrew BrooksShaynaye FranklinChris Gaither
Stars
Brian DinsmoreTommy EwellChris Gaither
Raphael wanders his old high-school grounds reflecting on his first experiences of young love, with particular focus on the love triangle between himself, Hecate and Louca.
Three young men spend their lives in an active war zone, surviving a lingering, forgotten conflict from the dying days of the Soviet Union. They discover rap music, and adopt its style defiant, proud, rapid-fire-as a voice to express their fears and desires to an eager younger generation.
Inspired by the smooth sounds of 1960s soul music, rhythm and blues, singer Raphael Saadiq performs a lively set of feel-good tracks from his album, "The Way I See It," including "Let's Take a Walk," "100 Yard Dash," "Love That Girl" and "Sometimes." Former member of the groups Tony! Toni! Toné! and Lucy Pearl, Saadiq has also produced songs for fellow artists such as Joss Stone, Snoop Dogg, D'Angelo and John Legend.
A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson).
'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened transportive states. It is also an exploration of the similarity between 'religious' and 'visionary' ecstasy and psychotic states.
Dequan, just like any other kid who grows up in the jungle of Brooklyn, has a dream to escape. He does not want to end up like so many others around him who are destined for jail or the cemetery before they make it out of their teens. He tries to follow the right path but after losing his dead-end job and discovering that his live-in girlfriend is pregnant, he decides that he has to cook up a plan to get money - lots of money, and fast. His best friend Brandon introduces him to a secret club in Brooklyn known as The Pit, where unsigned street rappers from all across New York City battle it out on stage rapping for money and the title to be called the best. Run by a local gangster named G-Mega, Dequan enters The Pit where he finds himself winning the rapping wars, making more money but also getting caught in a world of corruption, drugs and death that he can't escape.
P. Rappa is young pup rapper wanna-be with some big hip-hop ambition. He wants to impress the flower of his dreams, Sunny but standing in his way is evil rap sensation Joe Chin! Now P must seek the aid of four rap masters and become a first class thug by Saturday or lose his street cred forever! It's a showdown at Club Fun, X-Strike style!
Living it up in the big city with dreams of making it in the hip-hop world, attractive 20-year-old African-Americans Aaron, Daekwon, Amber and Lovely rely on their looks and talent to achieve their professional goals. But will their collective penchant for lust -- and a lack of sexual inhibition -- get in the way? Lunic Adisson, Phil Adkins, Shydel James and Arlene Chico-Lugo star in this feel-good comedy from first-time filmmaker Glenn Gipson.
They're the most "street-wise" kids on the block. Hip-hop is their style, breakdance is the way they move, and rap is their beat. Their dream? To get a rap band together and really make it big. Through "The Hop Line," The Street Frogs can earn money and meet the coolest DeeJay in town, Typhoon Toad. The Street Frogs hop to their jobs as gas station attendants to buy "The Crate" - a treasured convertible to take the cool dudes cruising on The Pond. In "Typhoon Take Off," The Street Frogs win the opportunity to be the guest disc jockeys on radio station WRIB.
A journey with Estonia's oldest and most popular band.