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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Finding Fela / Jigsaw Productions presents in association with Knitting Factory Entertainment, Okayplayer and Okayafrica presents ; produced by Jack Gulick, Alex Gibney ; directed by Alex Gibney.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Fela Films, [2015]

New York, N.Y. : Kino Lorber, Inc.

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, a combination of jazz, funk, and Nigerian percussion styles. It was also a political force, a propulsive delivery system of Fela's revolutionary ideas, pitched against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence helped bring a tilt towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan-Africanist politics to the world. The power and potency of Fela's music and message endure today.

Subjects:

Fela, 1938-1997.

Fela, 1938-1997 -- Influence.

Fela, 1938-1997 -- Political activity.

Musicians -- Nigeria -- Biography.

Protest songs -- Nigeria.

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Filmed performances.

Other Author:

Gibney, Alex, film director, film producer.

Gulick, Jack, film producer.

Fela, 1938-1997, singer, composer.

Kuti, Femi, performer.

McCartney, Paul.

Container of (expression): Fela, 1938-1997. Songs. Selections.

Jigsaw Productions, presenter.

Knitting Factory Entertainment (Firm), production company.

Kino Lorber, Inc.

Fela Films (Firm)

Notes:

Special features: Eight extended interviews; Femi Kuti sax solo at the new Africa shrine; Podcast interview with director Alex Gibney; Stills gallery; Trailer.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014.

Director of photography, Maryse Alberti ; co-producer, Alison Ellwood ; editor, Lindy Jankura ; executive producers, Ruth & Stephen Hendel ; music composed by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Paul McCartney, Questlove, Yeni Kuti, .

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1, 16x9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Title from container.

ISBN:

9786315788994

Publisher Number:

K1560

Other Number:

898303925

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

497766

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 780.92 Fela