The second instalment of South Africa’s first dedicated music-themed film festival, Sound on Screen, will take place between 2 and 10 December at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town.
This year’s festival will include international and South African documentaries, biopics and concert films covering a wide range of artists and genres. Most movies will make their South African theatrical debut.
Among the South African films showing will be The Creators, described as a “very moving look at different struggling musicians in the Cape Town area from an aspiring opera singer and hip-hop stalwart to a busker and poet. The Creators explores the chaotic reality of modern day South Africa by peering through the eyes of its artists. Born into separate areas of the formerly-segregated country, the subjects re-craft history in their own artistic languages.’
Some of the movie-makers and musicians will be present at the screening on Friday 9 December at 6:15pm.
Another South African film, Mama Goema, is a journey to the heart of the Mother City and a beat called Goema. With indigenous roots, colonial influence and shaped by Cape Town’s slave history, Goema’s blueprint lies in the City’s carnival culture. The documentary charts the evolution of this musical genre.
The producers and some of the subjects of the movie will also be present at the screening on Sunday 4 December at 4pm for an audience Q&A.
Some of the other films showing include Black Metal – A Documentary, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Real Punks Get Checked and The Heart is a Drum Machine.
The festival will end on Saturday 10 December at 7pm with a live performance by Cape Town female-fronted industrial-metal band TERMINATRYX for their Remyx v1.0 album launch, as a global on-line video stream link from the White Room at Sound & Motion Studios.
For the full line-up and screening times, visit www.flamedrop.com/sos, or www.facebook.com/events/271474276232859
