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HIT ME WITH MUSIC

GOLPEAME CON MUSICA

By Miquel GALOFRÉ

CARIBBEANTALES WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2011

One good thing about music; when it hits you, you feel no pain.Hit me with music, hit me with music now.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, Other
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Miquel GALOFRÉ
- Writer(s)
- Laura CARULLA
- Cast
- Bogle , Chi Chi Chong , Elephant Man , King STITT, Mavado , Vybez KARTEL, Yellow Man
- Producer(s)
- Fernando GARCIA-GUERETA (Nice Time Productions ), Zenesha RILEY (Nice Time Productions)
- Synopsis
- 30 years after Bob Marley’s death Jamaica continues to be on top of the world-wide music scene. Reggae has evolved to produce a new genre, Dancehall. Anywhere, at any time, tunes created by artistes from the ghetto fill the island’s soundscape. They tell the story of a society whose reality is marked by violence and poverty.
  Through the protagonists of this documentary we’ll get to know Dancehall and what it is about. A diverse group of individuals, including Yellowman, the original King of Dancehall, talk of the context in which these songs are born and what the phenomena represents in their life and the lives of many supporters.
  The film presents and represents the urban street culture and lifestyle that fuels and is born out of the new music of young Jamaicans, and captures the elements of dance which form an integral part of nightlife in Kingston.
  The Dancehall phenomena is unstoppable in Jamaica and the rest of the world, and continues to highlight the realities of life for poor Jamaicans, in spite of the efforts of the Jamaican government to attract tourists by hiding this reality behind its “Jamaica No Problem” image.
  Artistes, dancers, music producers, schoolchildren and the youths on the street explain the content of the polemic Dancehall lyrics and the lifestyle created by the music. The Gully – Gaza clash between supporters of Vybz Kartel and Mavado, the controversial subject of “Daggering” and the reasons why people bleach their skin, are all explored in this documentary.
  We’ll also get to know about the dreams and hopes of the majority of the poor and underprivileged in Jamaica.