Summary
Perhaps you saw the film when it played last month-with the filmmakers present for the showing-at the Rafael Film Center. If not, you can see it next month (and I think you're going to want to) when it arrives on DVD. Living Like a Refugee and the film, titled Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, were made at the same time. The buzz from the musical release seemed to fade at the beginning of this year, but has been catching on again with film showings (including on PBS) and concerts, and seems bound to get a further lift from the upcoming (mid-August) DVD release.
How does subsisting on starvation rations in a refugee camp become a skiffle tune ("Bull to the Weak") that would have left Bob Marley envious? In the same manner that people who have suffered amputation at the hands of their oppressors lift themselves above that horror with songs of hope and justice. I'd like to figure out a way to slip "Compliments for the Peace" and "Weapon Conflict" onto every world leader's iPod, and be able to watch their reactions to lyrics such as: "A weapons conflict for the sake of power/See the full content of this document
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Healing Leone's Wounds
Because this band will be performing in Sonoma County and not in Marin, and the word's out in Petaluma where I toil for my non-musical peanuts, I want to give mo...
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