SYNOPSIS: Jesse, a young man, spreads the words ‘You Are Beautiful’ through the streets of his home city. When he and his friend Kia encounter the troubled and homeless Many-Colored Man, the value of Jesse’s message is challenged. Can ‘You Are Beautiful’ reach someone who has never heard those words, or more importantly, doesn’t believe them about himself?
PERPOMBELLAR PRODUCTIONS, an independent film studio located in Savannah, Georgia, is known for its award-winning film THE STREET CLEANER, which has been featured in The South Magazine, Savannah Morning News, and Connect Savannah, and has shown at over 20 film festivals across the country, including Cindigenous-Savannah. Perpombellar has recently completed production on its first feature-length drama, TRUMPET MY RETURN, which has a planned release for Spring 2010. For more information visit: www.perpombellar.com or www.thestreetcleanermovie.com orwww.trumpetmyreturn.com
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This film was made with the help of a dedicated and talented cast and a competent crewthat feels like family. I was able to trust everyone with my vision. For me, it’s exhilarating to collaborate creatively this way.
Who knows what it’s like to be in a daze? I think we all have experienced it from time to time. Stunned and bemused at the sight or sound of whatever you behold. theDOLLDAZE has this effect on her audiences each time she takes the stage. DoLL has never been one to follow the trends. It has always been about just “being”. She says candidly “Who has a choice in the way God creates you”. Some people do music because it is something that they love but they have no passion behind it. DoLL clearly has the passion of her ancestors and even more an outer-world like spirit behind what she conveys musically. Her shows have been known to create a church like environment. With some of the audience in awe and the others in uproar because of the sheer intensity. The style of music she’s crafted has many elements and even she admits she doesn’t know what others make of it but she calls it Indie/Rock/Soul. “I would rather not put a name tag on it but people like a point of reference” she says. Her music exemplifies the blurred genres that the emerging Indie scene in Atlanta brings to the music industry. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA she has a natural southern charm and the accent to match. She has a genuine sweetness that hasn’t been tainted by the rah- rah of the superficial “Black Hollywood” some have come to know Atlanta for. She has a down to earth perspective on life and how to treat people. She has the true spirit of the GA red clay that exudes whenever you see her. For this reason some say her music takes on a personality of it’s own because it’s seemingly polar opposite of her everyday Atlien way. This is a part of the DAZE element. ATL has a gem and she is surely becoming a favorite for the bubbling scenes around town. Her latest release a EP entitled “Acid Report: the missing peace” has slowly made its way to the ears of audiences in Atl and beyond. One of the fan favorites “Let it Blow” has a tinge of Latin influence and the tempo changes throw you into a place that catches you off guard at first but then makes you smile after you follow it. The six songs on her EP channel subjects that make you wanna get up and go for your dreams like in “2040″ or even scream and thrust your head back and forth like in “the Hard Way”. Her goal was to introduce a portion of her sound to audiences so they get a small taste of what lies ahead for the dazed
one. theDOLLDAZE’s newest musical endeavor is a romantic tale entitled “Mystic Novel” a short film/novel concept album. She can’t say to much about it besides it’s a sort of period based semi-psychotic love story. The artwork and song snippets for the first passage will be released in late winter or early spring of 2010. She assures you will not be disappointed.
“I was born Daniel Coleman, I’m Daniel Coleman now, and I’m gonna die Daniel Coleman…so why not be that as an artist?” says the 24-year-old MC/singer/songwriter/producer about his eventual change of stage name to his birth name.“For years, I changed names to what I thought would be cool or marketable, but now I just wanna do ME.”
Coming from the Bloomfield neighborhood of Macon, Georgia, Daniel Coleman proudly composes the music that his counterparts often frown on: heartfelt, vulnerable, and pouring with individuality.He has been performing, writing, rapping and singing since he was 13.He would produce songs for a local group of his peers to hone his production craft and would do so until he graduated high school in 2003.After graduation, he attended Savannah State University with a hunger for more book smarts AND more hip-hop.His production became sharper, his lyrics more poignant, and his promotion-savvy heightened.He landed his songs anywhere they could go; among those places, a campus homecoming mixtape and 94.1 the Beat’s Seaport Local Music Show.
Now, with a solid team behind him, he brings what he calls “the best collection of songs I’ve ever made” to the public with The Backpack Music LP, a 12-track manifesto of introspection, self-assurance, and individuality.Alongside it, he has a video to push the album for the song, “Undergraduate”, and a website for his production group, The Musick People Recording Group, which will soon have music from fellow artists Suave Colione, D. Ciano, and Eazy.
“It only takes a second to see the vision…watch the video, listen to the songs, feel the magic…”
Brandywine is the OFFICIAL HOUSE BAND for the SUAF Launch Party!
beats, turntables, and a live band= living hip-hop. we’re a home studio music machine looking for talented and conscious MC’s and musicians that want to work with a collective of talented people in an effort to create as many dope tracks as possible and get those tracks out. if you want to get involved, and you do, get at us. brandywinelivinghiphop@ yahoo.com
City Council is an Indie Hip-Rock Duo supported by a live band (Guitar, Bass, Drums) that puts on a high energy show that peaks ears and draws in any listener with at least a minimal appreciation for artistic ability and creative showmanship. City Council’s sound is in it’s own category: most often being defined as a melding of Hip-Hop, Rock, Funk and Jazz. The City Council sound utilizes a distinct cross-over concept from creation to performance that is unique to City Council and City Council alone. Their music has gained popular notoriety across Middle-Georgia.
Their originality has set them apart from the rest of the Hip-Hop Genre and allowed them to team up with bands from every Genre, such as Nomenclature, T-Bird & The Breaks, Oh Dorian, Fish Hawk and Gym Glass Heroes. City Council has likewise received praise, in-depth positive treatment and honorable mention in publications of all types, including Food and Culture Magazine, the 11th Hour, The Macon Telegraph, Auburn Plainsman and Creative Loafing. With Jubee providing deep, emotion-filled lyrical creations and Perry Valentyne singing Melodic Choruses and rhyming multi-leveled flows, City Council is on the rise to the top of their own Genre.
Film Synopsis-Endeleza is a Kiswahili word that means progress, prosper, and flourish. The film is a rare opportunity for viewers around the globe to experience the miracles that the Sarakasi Trust bestows upon its participants first hand. The Sarakasi Trust is an organization established in Nairobi, Kenya, to enhance and advance the lives of the less fortunate through the performing arts. Their energy, excitement, creativity, and encouragement give the participants the tools to transform their lives and positively influence the lives of others. By providing intimate vignettes into the lives of four amazing individuals that are part of the Sarakasi Trust, we will watch as they encounter the forces of opposition that hinder their daily life. Through interaction with their families, friends, and by participating in their day-to-day activities, we will experience the amazing talent and vigor of these struggling artistes as they learn life-changing lessons of performance and perseverance. Endeleza will take us on this incredible journey with them.
Ana Cetina, Director, Producer & Sound Designer
Ana Cetina
Ana Cetina is originally of Mexican and Colombian decent. She was born in Mexico and moved to Colombia when she three years old. As a child and teenager, she spent six years in Nairobi, Kenya before moving to the United States to complete her undergraduate degree in Audio Technology and Applied Physics from the American University in Washington, DC. She later moved to Savannah, GA to work on her M.F.A. in Sound Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design where she discovered a passion for Documentary Film. Ana has many films, commercials, animations, and industrial videos under her belt. She has worked professionally doing field sound and in-studio audio engineering to help put herself through her Master’s Degree program at SCAD. She enjoys every aspect of production and looks forward to giving back to a community that is close to her heart by providing her exceptional skills to this project.
Emily Ullrich, Co-Director and Co-Writer
Emily Ullrich
Emily Ullrich is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has shown in the Cannes Film Festival, The Savannah Film Festival, Chicago’s Hit Eight, and others. She currently teaches Documentary Film, Media and Society, History of Film, and Journalism at Georgia Southern University.
She recently co-directed, co-wrote, and co-produced a documentary feature film in Nairobi, Kenya, called Endeleza.
She has over twelve years of television and film experience, and is also currently teaching digital fillmaking at AWOL, working with students on a series of community-based documentary shorts. Emily graduated with her B.F.A. in Film and Television from Savannah College of Art and Design, and later went on to get her Master’s Degree from Antioch University in Writing Acting and Directing for Stage and Screen.
Art and music were once the voice of the people. It was an underground movement driven by the need for expression. Somewhere along the way, art became available only to the elite and music profited only the few. At that point the artist lost control of their creation.
Art, Beats + Lyrics is taking it back.
HISTORY OF THE TOUR:
Art, Beats + Lyrics was established in 2004 when founder Jabari Graham faced being laid off from his job. Jabari figured he could look for new employment or create it himself. He had long toyed with the idea of creating a showcase for unrecognized urban artists. Jabari decided to follow his dream, investing his savings and severance package to fund an urban art showcase in Atlanta’s eclectic Little Five Points District. The exhibition was well received. The venue held 250 people, but over 400 attended. With that initial success, Jabari teamed with Dwayne “Dubelyoo” Wright. Dubelyoo had been creating his own art shows and brought experience, connections with artists and the inside perspective, being an artist himself, to the showcase. Together they repackaged the event and “Art, Beats + Lyrics” was born. Positive reviews from their first show made their second show at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art an unparalleled success in both AB+L and High Museum history. The museum was filled to capacity within three hours of the show’s opening. With the success of that and several other shows the next step was to take the show on the road. The concept for the show was pitched to a corporate sponsor and the partnership to produce one of the largest traveling urban art exhibition was born.
Dezaray Dawn is an exciting new artist on the future soul scene, possessing a voice which resonates with the depth of both emotion and experience. This German-born, Southern-raised Army brat is a self-described gypsy, having lived in 2 countries, 4 states, and 6 US cities by the time she was 16. She attended 16 schools in 12 years, and Dezaray states: “When nothing else was solid in my life, there was always music. Whether listening to what my parent’s were playing or composing tunes in my head, music was my solace, my friend, my release, my comfort.” Born to two military parents, and raised in an environment where the only constant was change, the one firm foundation was music. Dezaray’s mother was a part-time nightclub singer, and her father’s family includes several highly successful recording artists (neo-soul artist Anthony David is a cousin, as are Sean Stockman of Boys II Men fame, and Tiny from Xscape), so it was only natural that their home was always filled with music. “Soul, pop, funk - you name it. Everything except rap and hip-hop. My mom wouldn’t allow it,” Dezaray says with a laugh. But even this genre came to influence her own musical choices later on, as she grew to appreciate the tribal beats and syncopation of what she was spinning during her time spent as a highly regarded DJ at a progressive club in Nashville.
In addition to the sounds of Chaka, Aretha and Natalie from her mother’s collection, Dezaray Dawn’s early life was spent emulating artists she came to know on MTV. She wanted to “sing like Prince, dance like Michael, and be a showman like Madonna.” As her life became more turbulent following her parents’ divorce and the moves became more frequent due to her mother’s alcoholism, music was her escape. And more than anything, Dezaray came to understand the universality of soul music. Whether on the streets, in a shelter, or in the relative comfort of a stable home, soul music encompassed all she was experiencing and the feelings which ensued from being the victim of circumstances. Immediately following graduation, Dezaray struck out on her own, and, after a lifetime spent on the move, decided to settle right where she was: Nashville, otherwise known as Music City. (more…)
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