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Release Date:
May 11, 2012
Summary:
Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning album Graceland – an irresistible and groundbreaking fusion of American and South African pop music — was an immediate hit when it was released in 1986. It also proved to be a lightning rod for controversy, after South African leaders protested that Simon had broken the cultural boycott of the nation’s oppressively racist apartheid regime. In the documentary Under African Skies, premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Simon returns to South Africa, which formally ended apartheid in 1994 — 25 years after Graceland‘s release. Director Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory) follows Simon as he reunites with his South African collaborators, and revisits the controversy the album caused, while luminaries like Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Lorne Michaels, David Bryne and Sir Paul McCartney share their thoughts on what the album meant to them. (Radical Media)
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| Runtime: | 108 min |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
| Official Site: | http://www.radicalmedia.com/Entertainment/Under-African-Skies |
| Production: | Radical Media |
| Genres: | Biography, History, Music, Documentary |
| Countries: | USA, South Africa |
| Language: | English |
| Home Release Date: | Jun 5, 2012 |
| Director | Credit |
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| Joe Berlinger | Director |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Bakithi Kumalo | Himself |
| David Byrne | Himself |
| Harry Belafonte | Himself |
| Hugh Masekela | Himself |
| Koloi Lebona | Himself |
| Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Himself |
| Maya Angelou | Herself |
| Okeyerama Asante | Himself |
| Paul McCartney | Himself |
| Paul Simon | Himself |
| Peter Gabriel | Himself |
| Philip Glass | Himself |
| Quincy Jones | Himself |
| Roy Halee | Himself |
| Tony Cedras | Himself |
| Vusi Khumalo | Himself |
| Whoopi Goldberg | Herself |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Adam Block | Executive Producer |
| Amy Goldberg | Senior Story Producer |
| David McKillop | Executive Producer |
| Eddie Simon | Executive Producer |
| Frank Scherma | Executive Producer |
| Gil Aronow | Executive Producer |
| Hugh Masekela | Consulting Producer |
| Jennifer Helm | Post-Supervisor |
| Joe Berlinger | Producer |
| Jon Kamen | Producer |
| Justin Wilkes | Producer |
| Lindsay Nowak | Line Producer |
| Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Richard Story | Executive Producer |
| Robert DeBitetto | Executive Producer |
| Robert Friedman | Executive Producer |
| Sara Enright | Co-Producer |
| Tim Mack | Supervising Producer |
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