The film has been invited to be officially unveiled at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on 29 to 31 January, following local and international premieres at the Durban International Film Festival in July, 2011, and the Festival Do Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in October, 2011. The film has also been selected as an official entry at the One World Film Festival in March, 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic, a European festival of human rights and political documentaries.
In this context the punk subculture represented a genuinely radical impulse, set against political struggle, economic hardship and even civil war. The story unfolds from the Johannesburg underground rock scene of the 1970s, the multiracial punk bands formed in the wake of the Soweto Uprising and the anti-apartheid sounds of the 1980s to the rise of African-inspired ska-punk from Cape Town to Maputo in the democratic 1990s. Today, an emerging generation of new music confronts contemporary political challenges in Zimbabwe and Afrikaans-identity politics in South Africa, as the scene also begins to spread across the African continent.
The film is a co-production between SAFTA-awarded Johannesburg production company Meerkat Media and Prague-based independent producers Peligroso Productions and Bohemian Lion, and is represented for international sales and festivals by Rise and Shine Films in Berlin, Germany. Production was sponsored in part by the National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, Red Bull Media Group (Austria) and the post-production studio UPP (Czech Republic).
For more information contact Deon Maas on +27 (0)83 231 8910 or az.oc.aidemtakreem@noed
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