Bad Like Brooklyn Dancehall
Bad Like Brooklyn Dancehall
dir. Ben DiGiacomo, Dutty Vannier
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USA, Jamaica
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2024
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93min.
venue
date
time
available
Atlantic, B
2024-05-11
18:00
Luna, B
2024-05-13
18:30
Kinoteka, 1
2024-05-18
21:00
As young Jamaican immigrants across Brooklyn were coming of age during the 80s and 90s they were drawn to dancehall music to keep connected to life back home.
As young Jamaican immigrants across Brooklyn were coming of age during the 80s and 90s they were drawn to dancehall music to keep connected to life back home. Their preservation of key elements of culture through deejays, sound systems, and energetic dancing in New York’s seedy underground provides the unique atmosphere for an influential movement that was bubbling up in the shadow of hip-hop.
- duration:
- 93 min
- country / year of production:
- USA, Jamaica / 2024
- director:
- Ben DiGiacomo, Dutty Vannier
- cinematography:
- Ben DiGiacomo
- producer:
- Amy DiGiacomo, Jay Will, Ben DiGiacomo, Ramfis Myrthil, AJ Leon / A9NY Studio, Decentralized Pictures
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2023 – Tribeca IFF, 2023 – Doc Point Helsinki
