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Documentaries - A Selection of our Highlighted Films

This is the Life
Conversation to follow with Essence editor Cynthia Gordy &
filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

97 min                        Documentary
                                  Screening 

In 1989, a collective of young artists gathered weekly at a small health food store in South Central LA called "The Good Life." Their mandate? To explore and expand the musical boundaries of hip hop.

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Traveling across four continents over three years with cameras and a mobile recording studio, Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls embarked on a search for musical inspiration. What they discovered on their journey was the power music has to connect the world together.