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Director:
James Spooner
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Release Date:
4 August 2007 (Japan) more
Genre:
Documentary
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Honest Documentary about Being Minority Inside Minority Community more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Matt Davis ... Himself
Mariko Jones ... Herself
Moe Mitchell ... Himself
Tamar-Kali ... Herself
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Afro-Punk (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:
Canada:66 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Netherlands:75 min (Africa in the Picture Film Festival)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
Afro-Punk more

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
Honest Documentary about Being Minority Inside Minority Community, 5 March 2004
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Author: jazzest (jazzest_jazzest@hotmail.com) from Chiba City, Japan

Afropunk, a documentary about black kids in the US punk rock scene, represents an honest voice of director James Spooner, whose experience as a minority inside a minority community (a black in a punk community or a punk in a black community) parallels the film's four main characters' stories. The documentary comprises interviews, the interviewees' lives, and their live performances. While the interviewees do not know each other, their experiences are similar: born and raised in a predominantly white neighborhood, being only one black person in a local punk scene, dating almost exclusively white boys/girls due to the interest proximity, admiring legendary black punk band Bad Brains, and trying to establish and maintain their ties to the black community.

According to the director, the film has been appreciated by both the mainstream black audience and the mainstream (mostly white) punk audience, as well as by comparatively small black groups in the alternative art scene. But you have to be neither punk nor black to appreciate the film; it has universal appeal to anyone who feels that they are different from what they are supposed to be.

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