When gifted singer-songwriter Charlotte Banks asks new kid in town Will Burton to manage her fledgling rock band, she appears to have just one goal in mind: go head-to-head against her egotistical musician ex-boyfriend, Ben, at the biggest event of the year, a battle of the bands. Against all odds, their band develops a sound all its own with a real shot at success in the contest
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Bandslam
In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda. The filmmakers have collected glimpses into the struggles of Acrassicauda as they try to stay together and stay alive.
As youth music programs in the United States continue to decline in both quality and quantity, filmmaker Alberto Arvelo offers a fascinating look at how the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System, among other music programs across the South American country, are having an incredibly positive impact on the very fabric of Venezuelan society. Though once a simple, modest program designed to teach youngsters about classical music and provide them with the skills needed to become a professional orchestral performer, the unprecedented success Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System has inspired numerous other South American countries to implement similar programs. In addition to offering impoverished children a means of transcending their hardships, TO PLAY AND TO FIGHT also encourages to allow the viewer to notice the power of music as an effective tool in promoting social growth.
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To Play and To Fight
The making of the film WC from Irish director Liam O Mochain. WC is set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve. cineticfilmbuff.com
Forget Joe the Plumber, it’s time for Joe Barbershoppers. These are rank-and-file members of the international Barbershop Harmony Society and subjects of the music documentary “American Harmony . ’’ If you’re picturing a quartet of older men wearing striped vests singing “Sweet Adeline,’’ picture again.
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Sweet ‘Harmony’