CMC Young Musicians Program: Mission District youth find focus, follow dreams

The mission of Community Music Center is to make high quality music accessible to all people, regardless of financial status.

Gipsy life: Sinti and Roma 3 - Musicians for Life

A Roma without music is not really a Roma. In this personal quest to find the last Sinti and Roma, filmmaker Bob Entrop follows three gypsy bands. He travels with the Basily's to Prague, where they receive a warm welcome

Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists

Evidence supports that the CIA manipulated musicians and activists to promote drugs for social control, particularly regarding the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. Some musicians that resisted these manipulations wer

What is Indie? A look into the World of Independent Musicians

At a time when independent artists in the music industry have more power and control over their careers than ever before, "What is INDIE?" tries to determine just what it really means to be "indie". The film features int

These Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams

Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the music

Chalice of Repose: A Contemplative Musician's Approach to Death and Dying

Chalice of Repose focuses on the work of harpist and singer Therese Schroeder-Sheker at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana. Following in the spirit of the monks of St. Cluny in the Middle Ages who used music and b

Chopi musicians and dancers in the Banguza tribal kingdom, Zavala district

Ethnographic film

Voices from Gaza: Episode 2: Ahmad the Musician’s Message

Ahmad Abu-Amsha is a musician and father of five living through the upheaval of war in Gaza. After repeated displacement, he returned to find his home and music studio reduced to rubble. Seeking a way to help children co

Reminiscences of 15 musicians in Beirut attempting a re-imagination of the Egyptian classic Ya Garat Al Wadi

“Ya Garat Al Wadi” is a popular piece of Egyptian music composed by the legendary Mohammad Abdel Wahab and written by the poet Ahmad Shawqi in 1928. More than 90 years later, this film documents an orchestra of 15 musici

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

Rooster, cat, dog and donkey become homeless in old age for various reasons, wander and sing together. This gruesomely funny singing may not be enough to become Bremen's town musicians, but it is enough to drive away evi

Musician-Sorcerer

The film is based on a Belarusian folk tale. The boy's mother found him under a bush with a whistle in his hands and brought him home. He was so loud that only the whistle in his mouth calmed him down. The boy grew up to