"Take Me Away Fast" Voodoo Funk Documentary Related
maru
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I've been waiting for this documentary for over a year now and apparently it is finally done. I backed it through kickstarted but never received my DVD copy. Was wondering if anyone's seen the film and what they thought. Here's the trailer:
Take Me Away Fast Documentary Trailer from Leigh Iacobucci on Vimeo.
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Dunno. I would imagine so. You should contact the director Leigh.
But he's coming now with Marijata, Freedom Family and Gyedu Blay Ambolley's Simigwa reissues.
I guess the other Film those interested in the genre (the one by Raymond Dumas) never made it....
I would love to see this as well
I just noticed that Frank and Raymond seem to have had a few conversations. See link below this you tube clip:
how long is it?
ABUSE OF
KICKSTARTER
COMES AS
NO SURPRISE
What is the track he is playing on Reel at 2:45? That shit is unreal. Is it available in any format?
The film was finished months ago and I was told that all backers received their DVDs. Maru, I sent you the contact for the producer/director, I'm sure that she will sort you out.
The film was shown at two festivals, the Maine African Film Fest in Portland and at the Full Frame festival in Durham. I don't think that any further screenings are scheduled at this point.
I'm not sure if and when there will be a commercial DVD release. I hope that the film will sooner or later be available for free download somewhere...
Regarding the R. Dumas film, a few years ago, the film maker put up a website to collect funding for his movie, the visual material consisted of several hundreds of record cover scans that were all pulled from my site. There was not a single scan from any other source and every single last record scan I had ever put up on my blog had been used. I sent R. Dumas an email asking what was up with that and never received an answer. Then I looked at the video trailers on the site (the same two that are still up on YouTube). There was an interview with Tony Allen in Paris and one with Duncan in London that had been filmed by R. Dumas and then there was a lot of footage that had been pulled from various unrelated DVD releases (R. Dumas has never done any filming in Africa). Most notably there was footage from Ginger Baker In Africa, Konkombe and from various Fela DVDs. I informed the publishers of these DVDs and a week later R. Dumas' website was taken down.
Hey Frank, good to see you around.