On Wednesday 9 April, yours truly will be on YoTV-EXT 4 with MC Rashid Kay promoting FedeFokol: 25 Years of SA Hip Hop - a documentary we shot last year and just finished.
The project went down with NEMISA in conjunction with the Department of Communication through it’s NDR project.
Fedefokol: 25 Years of SA Hip Hop will be screened at the Back to the City Youth Festival Hip Hop Summit on April 27. The screening will be a 20-minute extract of the documentary, followed by a panel discussion.
The documentary chronicles the development of SA hip hop from 1985 to 2012. It features well known artists, record executives and media people such as Proverb, AKA, Ready D (Prophets of the City), DJ Lemonka, Lance Stehr, Hype magazine and Vusi Leeuw .
It also features artists who were part of the development of hip hop but are not widely recognised like Mfundisi Ntshebe, KARAMO, Bob Mabena and new unsigned talent.
The screening and panel discussion will take place on 27 April at 10 am - at Museum Africa. The documentary is part of a 13 x 48-minute television documentary series on SA heritage called SA Undocumented.
Extracts of the documentary are available on the NDR portal throughout the month of April as part of their celebration of South African hip hop.
The National Digital Repository (NDR) project is a youth project that seeks to digitize and preserve South African heritage. The project was started in 2009 by the Department of Communication and is run by the National Electronic Media Institute (NEMISA) - a section 21 company that specializes in training young people in Radio, Animation, Graphic Design and Television - based in Parktown.
The project started with collecting audio-visual recordings of South African heritage as seen from the perspective of young unemployed people from around the country. The stories were then cut into videos, photographs and write ups, which were posted on the NDR website for public consumption.
In 2012 the project set out to film 13 x 48-minute documentaries for television and later re-cut for the web. The stories were shot in High Definition, covered all 9 provinces, in 14 different languages, empowered young start up companies and first time film makers. Together the documentaries cover unsung heroes, historical figures, the anti-apartheid struggle, cultural issues and the arts.
Back to the City is the biggest hip hop festival on the continent. It takes place annually on 27 April and features a hip hop summit whereby industry gurus talk about issues facing the industry, live stage performances, B-boy battles and live graffiti painting. The festival started in 2007 and has grown over the years, from 3 500 people at the first festival to 15 000 people last year.
Check out the trailer here :
http://youtu.be/1NYDs8FGtA8