LATEST NEWS: SOULUCET FILMS LAUNCHES FUNDING CAMPAIGN ON INDIEGOGO
Now you can visit the Indie-GoGo website and see the trailer made exclusively to raise funds for the completion of this film www.indiegogo.com/The-Eternal-Rhythm...
The funds will allow SouLucet Films to travel and film important groups dedicated to reaching out to humanity with the joy of dancing and singing accompanied by special drumming that moves our whole being. This is a very important project, for it gives us hope when we connect with others. We will see and feel how much alike we all are within our hearts and souls.
I intend to film MARAFANYI, with a strong bond to Guinea, West Africa, it is a pioneering group, founded by international musicians and teaching artists, Lara Gonzalez & Yael Shacham with Lisa Gonzalez-Howell, presenting an artistic expression that fuses original songs and spoken word with traditional West African rhythm and dance Рshowcasing indigenous instruments. Their infectious energy, genuine warmth, and rocksolid musical talent place them in high demand for group shows of every genre including World (Ang̩lique Kidjo), Folk (Odetta), Rock (Hamell on Trial), Jazz (Perry Robinson) and Spoken Word (Carl Hancock Rux). Marafanyi is known for diverse creativity -"Percussion is just the beginning!"
Also the SENEGAL-AMERICAN PROJECT consisting of an extremely exciting group of drummers, teachers, and is an expandable, up-close-and-personal model for practicing the most essential and obvious principal of human interactions, which is that we are all connected. The primary goal of the Project is to bring people together in meaningful collaborations that create transformational responses to what we share of common issues and common ground. This extraordinary Project has grown from the initial collaboration between Tony Vacca and Massamba Diop, into a network of musicians, teachers, social activists, schools, film makers and health care professionals. With the help of friends, investors, and partnerships, we've gone far beyond our modest original vision.
The amazing talent that has already been filmed/interviewed are drummer extraordinaire and teacher KiroKiro from Burundi, Africa, Pamela Frankel, a pilgrim to Cuba three times to study the culture of Afro-Cuban drum, dance and song along with Kati Hernandez, a native of Cuba, who teaches and performs all the glorious dances and songs from that country. There is Tiana Liufau, a celebrated choreographer and performer of the Polynesian dances and her family. Ogalala-Lakota Indians Larry Gonzalez and his wife and daughter, Cynthia and Stephany, from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota along with Saginaw Grant, a Sac-Fox Indian, and a legend among the American Indian community. Bineta Diop, the daughter of Massamba Diopand her husband Jason Buchea share a taste of the Senegalese music and dance with us and we have filmed a dance troupe which includes interviews with Jose Rodriguez and Andrea Rodriguez(no relation) who perform the very unique Bomba style of dance, drum and song from Puerto Rico. Then we have the most generous soul of Flavio Pimenta from Meninos de Morumbi in Sao Paulo, Brazil who almost single-handedly created an impressive school to lift the children of the favelas out of poverty and give them something to live for and feel good about in their lives with drum, dance and song.
I have recruited voice talent and actor a’ALI deSOUSA to be the narrator and I have an amazing editor and director of photography, JEREMY SCRIPTER, who currently juggles this project, a full time job with mOcean, a creative movie trailer agency, and his own film projects. I am extremely fortunate to have this roster of talent to help me bring this film to life. I hope to have the documentary completed by the end of this year 2011. With God’s blessings and the help of everyone who supports this project, I’m sure this film will be a winner!! Thank you everyone.
PILAR WALSH/Producer/Writer/Director
SOULUCET FILMS/Los Angeles.
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