The Hip-Hop Film Festival would like to invite you and a guest to a special advanced press screening of the award winning and critically acclaimed film....
"FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme"
Thursday, August 26th. - 7 pm
Red Vic Movie House
1727 Haight St., San Francisco
www.redvicmoviehouse.com
The Hip-Hop Film Festival screenings FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme in San Fransico at The Red Vic. Press, Media, and Joulanlists invited to attend.
(PRWEB) August 22, 2004 -- "FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme"
Opens Thursday, August 26th. - 7 pm
Red Vic Movie House
1727 Haight St., San Francisco
www.redvicmoviehouse.com
WWW.ORGANICFILMS.COM
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FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme (aprox: 74 min, US, Super 16mm, 2004)
Explosively documenting the world of improvisational Hip-Hop, Freestyle provides an authentic look into the life, music and history of this underground culture. Packed with rare and archival footage of some of the most amazing hip-hop MC's ever to bless the mic! No showing of this non-profit documentary is ever the same; new edits being performed live on the fly by DJ Organic on DVD VJ turntables. This work in progress, is 1/2 art house cinema 1/2 underground mix-tape! A DJ plays for the audience before and after every screening; the filmmakers usually introduce the film and answer questions from the audience and there's an Open Mic and/or Cipher after every screening.
WINNER HBO Best Documentary Award, Urban World Film Festival
WINNER Special Jury Prize, Documentary Filmmaking, Florida Film Festival
WINNER Best of The Fest., Adelaide, International Film Festival
WINNER Best Documentary Award & Maverick Award, Woodstock Film Festival
WINNER Best Documentary & Audience Award, Pan African Film Festival
WINNER Best Sound Track Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
Official Selection:
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
Slamdance Film Festival
Mostra de Valencia Film Festival
Vancouver Documentary Film Festival
Cambridge Film Festival
Maryland Film Festival
Brisbane International Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival
Quotes:
"Joyful, Ferocious, a Celebration of the Verbal Artistry of hip-hop.
A Rousing Education in an Art form that is too often misunderstood" -A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Intriguing, Innovative and Well Structured, Harnesses the Energy of this Creative Culture by Drawing you in. Accomplishing the rare feat of making the Creative process Interesting while Telling a Story" -Kevin Crust, The Los Angeles Times
"Outstrips all previous films on hip-hop" - Josh Rothkoph, Time Out
"The Hollywood version is "8 Mile," But the real thing, is this Admiring documentary that explores the Phenomenon with Spirit. It contains footage that, is as Exciting as an Ali Foreman fight" - Jami Bernard, NY Daily News
"This Electrifying, Unscripted Solid documentary offers a Generous helping of Performances from the Masters" -Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"The Energy is Contagious, the Poetry Inspired, The Most Lively and Informative movie, About hip-hop since WILDSTYLE" -Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
"Takes on the Culture and History of hip-hop, an Awesome High-Octane Art form to behold, Will literally Leave you Speechless." -Indiewire
"Not since the groundbreaking Wild Style has there been a hip-hop film this exciting to watch." -E-Online
"100% FRESH" -rottentomatoes.com
"This Wholehearted Celebration distills Wisdom from sagacious elders" - Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, LA Weekly
"Inspiring Mesmerizing, and creative, Revolutionary street poetry, Eloquent Social Knowledge, The best of rap! " - Variety
PRESS reviews:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0428/hsu.php
http://www.tamark.ca/wpj/andrea/freestyl.html
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/events/future/documents/03023736.asp
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/students/beat/oct2002/fsrwe.jhtml
http://www.citypaper.com/2002-04-24/frenzy_feature3.html
http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=6043
Upcoming screenings:
Sept 1st-5th Vancouver International Hip-Hop Film Festival
WWW.HIPHOPFILMFESTIVAL.COM for updates our films and screening times.
The Center for Hip-Hop Education is a project of Hip-Hop Congress, a non-profit organization.
http://www.centerforhiphop.com/home.html
The Center for Hip-Hop Education presents Festival Outreach Screenings and develops Teachers Guides and bibliographies for teachers to facilitate discussions with their students and experts following screenings. Teachers are encouraged to continue the discussion started at these screenings back in the classroom to maximize the learning experience.
Outreach Screenings are FREE to schools with a reservation. If you would like your students to attend, please contact Kevin at kevin@hiphopfilmfestival.com
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