Toronto Urban Music Festival 2009


URBAN MUSIC WEEK Urban Film Series sponsored by Fusicology Friday, February 25, 2011 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

All screenings will take place at: National Film Board Cinema, 150 John St. @ Richmond St. W. The screenings for Urban Music Week 2011 include:

Saturday, February 26 - 1:30p.m.
Afro Punk
(Dir. James Spooner, USA, 66 min.)

Afro-Punk, a 66-minute documentary, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday "Behind the Music"; or typical black history month documentary, this film tackles the hard questions such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating, and black power. We follow the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community.

The style of the documentary inter-cuts interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the nation with scenes from our four protagonists' lives, who come from different regions, generations, genders, and sexual preferences, but their stories are amazingly similar.

Afro-Punk features performances by Bad Brains, Tamar Kali, Cipher, and Ten Grand. It also contains exclusive interviews by members of Fishbone, 247- spyz, Dead Kennedys, Candiria, Orange 9mm and TV on the Radio to name a few.

Saturday, February 26 - 3:30p.m.
Make Some Noise
(Dir. Andrew Munger, Canada)

Winner of Best Canadian Short at 1994 Toronto International Film Festival. Make Some Noise is a snapshot of hip hop music and culture in Toronto, circa 1994. The documentary reveals a creative and powerful underground movement bubbling in beneath the surface in Canada's largest cities.
The filmmakers give voice to some of the movement's most outspoken and opinionated characters, including Farley Flex, Johnbronski, Thrust, Motion and Kwajo of Ghetto Concept. The film includes a rare freestyle by the then unknown Mos Def who kicks it in the basement studio of CKLN radio.

Admissions (all films): $8 per screening, $12 for a one-day pass. Tickets are available at the door.