SCRATCH

By Sébastien GODRON

FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, CANADA

Musical - Completed 2015

A young hip hop singer at the verge of fame, and releasing his first record as a group, loses everything when the singer from the rival group attacks him on a crucial night.

Festivals
& Awards

Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
San Diego Black Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois 2016
Official Selection
Festival du film Québécois en Haiti 2016
Official Selection
New York City Independent Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
Chicago International Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
San Francisco Black Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
Festival du film québécois de Saint-Séverin 2016
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Musical, Drama
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, CREOLE
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sébastien GODRON
    • Writer(s)
    • Sébastien GODRON
    • Producer(s)
    • Christine FALCO (Films Camera Oscura Inc.)
    • Synopsis
    • Angelot is a young Haitian man who arrived in Quebec in the nineties at the age of ten. Twenty years later, Angelot, who now calls himself Leslie, has become the leader of a hip-hop group. Leslie falls into a life of petty crime by taking over his brother’s business after his incarceration. The money it brings helps bankroll the production of his first album, which he hopes will be his ticket out of the ghetto. One night after a concert, he gets shot in the head by a rival gang member. Slipping into a long coma, we get to glimpse into his past to better understand what let him to take the wrong road in life. When he awakes from his coma, Leslie realises that the world he lives in is not authentic and based on instant and ephemeral success. Leslie had to die for Angelot to be reborn through love.