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2014 CMW Film Fest Winners Announced

2014 CMW Film Fest Winners Announced

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The CMW Film Fest, presented by Tribute Entertainment Media Group, has increasingly garnered attention from the media and public since it was first introduced, premiering some of music’s most illuminating films and documentaries while calling attention to the directors, composers and music that bring these stories to life on the big screen. As our programming team begins their search for 2015, here’s a recap of some of the films which emerged as winners at this year’s festival…

  
FINDING FELA!

(Director: Alex Gibney) 
Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, using that forum to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the1970s and 1980s. His influence helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan Africanist politics to the world. The power and potency of Fela’s message is completely current today and is expressed in the political movements of oppressed people, embracing Fela’s music and message in their struggle for freedom.

 

  
#POSTMODEM

(Directors: Julia Mayer & Lucas Levya)
A comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It’s the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets.

 

  
SWIM LITTLE FISH SWIM

(Directors: Lola Bessis & Ruben Amar)
Set in New York, Swim Little Fish Swim focuses on the domestic life of Leeward (Dustin Guy Defa) and Mary (Brooke Bloom), a young married couple at a crossroads. Mary is a hardworking nurse determined to turn the couple’s lives around while Leeward is a struggling marginal musician who fancies himself a misunderstood artist and New Age visionary. The two can’t even agree on what to name their three-year old daughter. Enter Lilas (Lola Bessis), a 19 year-old French artist trying to make it in New York and escape the shadow of her famous painter mother. When the bubbly young woman moves into the couple’s tiny Chinatown apartment, their already fragile balance is upset even further.
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