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Benda Bilili!

National Geographic Cinema Ventures | Release Date: September 30, 2011

Summary: Benda Bilili! follows an unlikely group of musicians in Kinshasa, capital of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. The band, Staff Benda Bilili—in English, “look beyond”—is a group of street musicians composed of four paraplegics and three able-bodied men. The core of the group is four singer/guitarists polio, who use customized tricycles to get around: Ricky, the eldest and a co-founding member of the band; Coco, the band’s composer and co-founding member with Ricky; Junana, the member most disabled by polio, yet the official choreographer; and Coude, a bass player and soprano singer. Joining them is a young and entirely acoustic rhythm section, led by Roger, a teenage prodigy on the satongé, a one-string guitar he designed and built himself out of a tin can. (National Geographic Cinema Ventures)

Details

Runtime:	85 min
Rating:	Rated PG-13 for some drug material
Official Site:	http://movies.nationalgeographic.com/movies/benda-bilili/
Production:	Canal+
Genres:	Music, Documentary
Countries:	France, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Languages:	French, Lingala
Home Release Date:	Apr 3, 2012

Director	Credit
Florent de La Tullaye	Director
Renaud Barret	Director

Writer	Credit
Florent de La Tullaye	Script
Renaud Barret	Script

Cast	Credit
Coco Ngambali	Himself
Cubain Kabeya	Himself
Djunana Tanga-Suele	Himself
Leon Likabu	Himself
Maria Barli Djongo	Herself
Montana	Himself
Paulin Kiara-Maigi	Himself
Renaud Barret	Cast
Roger Landu	Himself
Theo Nsituvuidi	Himself
Vincent Kenis	Himself

Producer	Credit
Florent de La Tullaye	Producer
Nadim Cheikhrouha	Producer
Natacha Delmon Casanova	Assistant Producer
Olivier Laffon	Associate Producer
Renaud Barret	Producer
Yves Chanvillard	Producer