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Sophiatown

2003 NR 1h 22m 8.2

Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation ...

Info about Sophiatown

Studio(s): Little Bird

Originally Released: Aug 16, 2003

Production Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Genres:Documentary, Music