production blue moon film
director: Alexa Oona Schulz
creative documentary/ human interest
60'/90'
"Tropical Amsterdam" is a story about a community left behind by colonialism in Sri Lanka.
It's a community stuck between staying or leaving, illusion and reality, dancing tango under slow-circling fans, dining on Dutch china with blue windmills next to coconut palms, crazy for spices and tea. A world populated by abandoned brides, patriarchal fathers, angry sons, and deadly female spirits.
Selected for the 2007 Discovery Campus Masterschool an EU MEDIA-supported initiative that develops international coproductions.
production Urban Nomad Pictures in association with blue moon film
director: Boris Castro
documentary - music/human interest/social issues
52'/90'
The life story of five Samoan brothers from Los Angeles who are trying to survive between gang life and a musical career. Their band THE BOOYAA TRIBE is considered as the pioneer of gangster rap. They are gifted musicians but achieve little success because they are "too real" for the rap industry. As unique as they are, as much this is their handicap. Well known artists like Everlast or Dj Muggs, as well as industry tycoons like Russell Simmons or John Rosenberg will be in the film and acknowledge their talent and significance in the game.
A unique story about the birth and battle of rap music, the film questions the record industry, and reviews modern colonial politics in the land of the free, where minorities do not get a
second chance. The story of THE BOOYAA TRIBE brothers is filled with sadness, pain, and pride. They never give up, and pass their knowledge and experience on to the next generation.
director: Thea Boyanowsky
documentary - music/human interest, 52', HD
How has one song come to move so many people across the globe? "Cancion Mixteca" is an anthem for Spanish-speaking immigrants and ex-patriats everywhere living far from home. They sing it when they're lonely, they sing it at parties; many don't even know the title but once the melody begins, their eyes light up and their mouths start forming the words. A Oaxacan tree-trimmer, actor Gael Garcia Bernal, a kitchen full of Salvadoreans, artist Gabriel Orozco - to all it's a favorite. Through hearing a range of personalities sing the song and tell their stories, the film explores how the beautiful melody and spare poetry has become embedded profoundly in the hearts of a diaspora. And it reveals a deeper issue about sense of place as we discover why this song, written by a homesick student over 80 years ago, captures the imaginations of people with such varied backgrounds, from every walk of life who all love the song that starts with "how far" ("que lejos").
