Sing Your Song
It is not just live action feature films that are on show at the BFI London Film Festival next week as documentary movies are also going to be on show.
And Susanne Rostock is one of the directors that we will be seeing for the very first time as Sing Your Song is her directorial debut.
Rostock has had a long and very distinguished career as an editor working on documentary movies such The Long Way Home, Inspirations, The Sweatbox and Paternal Instinct.
But Sing Your Song is a biographical documentary that surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte.
From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements.
Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist, who worked intimately with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth.
Sing Your Song is an intimate and personal story of one of a much loved musician who has thrilled fans for many years.
The BFI London Film Festival runs 12 - 27 October.
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