Trailer:https://vimeo.com/129415245
DIRECTOR: Mike Todd
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA/UK 2015
RUNNING TIME: 92 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Hustlers Convention is a hip-hop history lesson that feels at times like a rap cousin of Searching for Sugar Man. As the filmmaker goes in search of the artist behind the influential 1973 album Hustlers Convention that changed the world, Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines a lost ancestral moment of black consciousness and black pop culture. Interviews include George Clinton, Fab 5 Freddy, Ice-T and Chuck D as the film builds to the album's first live performance by Jalal Nuriddin aka Lightnin' Rod.
*Filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
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DIRECTOR: Mike Todd
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA/UK 2015
RUNNING TIME: 92 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Hustlers Convention is a hip-hop history lesson that feels at times like a rap cousin of Searching for Sugar Man. As the filmmaker goes in search of the artist behind the influential 1973 album Hustlers Convention that changed the world, Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines a lost ancestral moment of black consciousness and black pop culture. Interviews include George Clinton, Fab 5 Freddy, Ice-T and Chuck D as the film builds to the album's first live performance by Jalal Nuriddin aka Lightnin' Rod.
*Filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
Trailer:https://vimeo.com/129415245
DIRECTOR: Mike Todd
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA/UK 2015
RUNNING TIME: 92 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Hustlers Convention is a hip-hop history lesson that feels at times like a rap cousin of Searching for Sugar Man. As the filmmaker goes in search of the artist behind the influential 1973 album Hustlers Convention that changed the world, Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines a lost ancestral moment of black consciousness and black pop culture. Interviews include George Clinton, Fab 5 Freddy, Ice-T and Chuck D as the film builds to the album's first live performance by Jalal Nuriddin aka Lightnin' Rod.
*Filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
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DIRECTOR: Mike Todd
COUNTRY/YEAR: USA/UK 2015
RUNNING TIME: 92 min
PREMIERE STATUS: West Coast Premiere
SYNOPSIS: Hustlers Convention is a hip-hop history lesson that feels at times like a rap cousin of Searching for Sugar Man. As the filmmaker goes in search of the artist behind the influential 1973 album Hustlers Convention that changed the world, Mike Todd’s documentary re-examines a lost ancestral moment of black consciousness and black pop culture. Interviews include George Clinton, Fab 5 Freddy, Ice-T and Chuck D as the film builds to the album's first live performance by Jalal Nuriddin aka Lightnin' Rod.
*Filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A
show less
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