Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony - This 90 minute documentary film celebrates the role of music and song in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. An eight year labour of love, the HBO/SABC backed documentary AMANDLA!, was co-produced with New York based Kwela Productions.

AMANDLA! won two awards at the Sundance Festival - the Freedom of Expression Award and the Audience Award.

"Song is what keeps us alive." - Lindiwe Zulu (Freedom Fighter)

" … with every song there is a story: of pain, of joy, of heartbreak … AMANDLA! is a triumph." - Justice Malala, The Sunday Times

"one of the best films so far this year at Sundance …" - The New York Times

" … from despair to victory, the South African Documentary has the widest range of emotion of any film at this year's Sundance …" - Roger Ebert

Winner of the Audience Award and Freedom of Expression Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, AMANDLA! tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid.

The power of song to communicate, motivate, console, unite and, ultimately, beget change: that ideal, gloriously realised, lies at the heart of director Lee Hirsch's inspiring feature film documentary AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR-PART HARMONY. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanised black South Africans for more than 40 years, AMANDLA!'s focus is on the struggle's spiritual dimension, as articulated and embodied in song. It is unlike any other film yet made on the subject of apartheid, and an electrically expressive portrait of South African life then and now.

In form as well as content, AMANDLA! breaks new ground. Beginning with its dynamic opening title sequence, AMANDLA! harnesses the visual and sonic power of cinema to create a powerfully emotional viewing experience. Vivid, colour-drenched cinematography flows like song, complementing an innovative narrative that combines original footage, breathtaking musical numbers, archive and haunting re-enactments to celebrate the resilience of the human spirit throughout the decades-long struggle for freedom in South Africa. Nine years in the making, the HBO/SABC backed AMANDLA! was shot in South Africa, co-produced by Bomb and the New York-based Kwela Productions. It features interviews with a diverse range of individuals, who candidly share their experiences of struggle and song. The film brings dozens of freedom songs to the screen, drawing upon original recordings and thrilling, sometimes impromptu live performances by celebrated South African musicians and non-professionals alike. Threaded throughout the film, these rich and beautiful anthems take viewers on an extraordinary journey through the spiritual and physical reality of life under apartheid.
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Amandla is available on DVD and Cassette. The soundtrack is available on CD.