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18 DAYS OF THE WORLD’S BEST MUSIC DOCS Doc’n Roll, the UK’s Music Documentary Festival, returns for its fifth London edition with a dazzlingly diverse lineup of films running from 1 to 18 November across 12 unique venues. Doc’n Roll London 2018 will screen 28 music documentaries that spotlight the icons and rebels of Afghanistan, Wales, Ethiopia and Ukraine; tell the stories of the groundbreaking record labels Blue Note and Trojan; map the worlds of grindcore, blues, Detroit techno, DIY and punk and Kirtan mantras; and go behind the scenes with artists including Silvana, Sepultura, the Wedding Present, Kojey Radical, Chilly Gonzales, Badly Drawn Boy and Blondie’s Clem Burke.
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U25
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WORLD PREMIERE + Q&A
SLOW CLUB – OUR MOST BRILLIANT FRIENDS Dir. Piers Dennis, UK, 2018, 70 mins Thursday 1 November · 6:30 pm · Barbican Cinema 1
Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor are Sheffield band Slow Club. After 10 years of touring, conflicting perspectives on success have pushed them apart. Could this be the end? A bittersweet portrait of a musical partnership.
WORLD PREMIERE + Q&A
KOJEY RADICAL SHORT FILM Dir. Dean Chalkley, UK, 2018, 7:15 mins Friday 2 November · 6:30 pm and 8:00 pm · The Photographers’ Gallery
Renowned photographer Dean Chalkley takes us on a journey into the mind, art and socio-political outlook of rising star Kojey Radical, via the East London housing estate where the poet-turned-rapper grew up.
WORLD PREMIERE + Q&A
WE ARE THE LEAGUE (HOW DEEP DO YOU WANT IT?) ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE Dir. George Hencken, UK, 2018, 90 mins Friday 2 November · 9:00 pm · Genesis Cinema
The tale of four leather-trousered blokes from Tunbridge Wells who were determined to shove a carrot up the arse of the post-punk scene, this is a portrait of – officially – one of the most offensive bands in the world.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
SOME OTHER GUYS – THE STORY OF THE BIG THREE Dir. Todd Kipp, 2017, Canada, 100 mins Saturday 3 November · 3:00 pm · Curzon Soho
How did The Beatles rocket to stardom while The Big Three, their raucous, hard-drinking, headstrong Liverpudlian rivals, vanished from the scene? A compelling look at a band, an era and the vicissitudes of musical fortune.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A U25
THE WEDDING PRESENT: SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND Dir. Andrew Jezard, 2018, UK, 87 mins Saturday 3 November · 4:00 pm · Rio Dalston
Seen through the eyes of fans who grew up with it and the musicians who made it, this is the story of The Wedding Present’s 1987 debut George Best: arguably the greatest break-up album of all time.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
MY VIEW: CLEM BURKE Dir. Philip Sansom, UK 2018, 50 mins Saturday 3 November · 6:30 pm · Picturehouse Central
In this access-all-areas film, we follow the drummer known to peers as the Doctor of Rock as he takes the stage with Blondie in Hyde Park, and then plays five gigs in 24 hours at Liverpool’s Cavern Club.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
ROCKABUL Dir. Travis Beard, 2018, Afghanistan, 77 mins Sunday 4 November · 2:30 pm · Genesis Cinema
An unforgettable portrait of today’s Afghanistan, through the lens of the local musicians who formed its first ever heavy metal band and an adventurous Australian determined to build a Western-style music scene in Kabul.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
MANTRA: SOUNDS INTO SILENCE Dir. Georgia Wyss, Spain, 2017, 85 mins Sunday 4 November · 4:00 pm · Barbican Cinema 3
Harmony, healing and shared humanity: an exploration of the practice of Kirtan and the people who seek inner peace by singing mantras together, from acclaimed Kirtan performers and Tibetan monks to prison inmates and hip-hop MCs.
Q&A + AFTERPARTY U25
RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS Dir. Nicolas Jack Davies, 2018, UK, 85 mins Sunday 4 November · 5:30 pm · Rio Dalston
The love affair between Jamaican and British youth culture, told through the prism of one of black music’s most iconic labels, Trojan Records, with insights from artists including Lee “Scratch” Perry, Neville Staple and Pauline Black.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A Co-Presented by DJ MAG
NEVER STOP – A MUSIC THAT RESISTS Dir. Jacqueline Caux, 2017, France, 80 mins Wednesday 7 November · 8:00 pm · Everyman King’s Cross
A striking portrait of Detroit techno and the labels that brought the post-industrial Motor City’s independent underground culture to the world. With Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Carl Craig and Jeff Mills.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
I CAN ONLY BE MARY LANE Dir. Jesseca Ynez, 2018, USA, 60 mins Thursday 8 November · 6:30 pm · Picturehouse Central
At 82, dulcet-voiced Mary Lane is one of the last of Chicago’s great blues musicians, but she has never had the wider recognition she deserves. We follow her as she records her first album in over 20 years.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
ANORAC Dir Gruffydd Davies, 2018, UK, 2018, 99 mins Thursday 8 November · 8:45 pm · Barbican Cinema 1
Pop music in Welsh: a fringe interest? Or proof, as Huw Stephens muses during this road trip through his homeland, that “culture and music has the power to change things”? Featuring Gruff Rhys, Gwenno and the Joy Formidable.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
MUSIC SHORTS DOC NIGHT Various directors. Total duration: 103 minutes Thursday 8 November · 7:30 pm · House of Vans
WE ARE ALL HERE
CALM BEFORE... THE RISING STORM
Dir. Hannah Currie, UK, 2018, 23 mins
Dirs. Andrew Brier, Max J. Brier and Amy Lee Solomon, USA, 2018, 29 min 30 sec
When Glasgow rapper Lumo takes his own life aged 21, family and friends struggle to make sense of his death. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAYED AT MY HIGH SCHOOL Co-directors Anthony Jannelli and Robert Pietri, USA, 2017, 8 mins
An animated account of the Velvet Underground’s short, disastrous first public performance.
In 1967, six Massachusetts highschool students recorded an album that collectors would hail as one of the great cult records of rock’n’roll. BIRTH OF AFROBEAT Dir. Opiyo Okeyo, USA, 2017, 7 mins
Fela Kuti said that without Nigerian drum legend Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat: this is Allen’s story. CARAVAN
YOU ARE HERE Dir. Nicholas Jones, UK, 2018, 16 mins
Dirs. Zharko Ivanov and Viktor Sokolovski, Macedonia, 2017, 21 mins 10 sec
A portrait of The Charlatans’ keyboard player Tony Rogers, who left England behind for rural Ireland.
Romani musicians from the brass band Uskakan “meet” with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
IS IT PUNK MUSIC? Dir. Rodrigue Huart, 2017, France, 50 mins Friday 9 November · 6:30 pm · Picturehouse Central
Brothers Jim and Loz Beck have played music together since they were 8. Leaving the countryside for London at 18, they formed Cassels; this documentary foregrounds the band’s politicised ethos and DIY resistance to music industry norms.
U25
RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS Dir. Nicolas Jack Davies, 2018, UK, 85 mins Saturday 10 November · 3:00 pm · The Castle Cinema
The love affair between Jamaican and British youth culture, told through the prism of one of black music’s most iconic labels, Trojan Records, with insights from artists including Lee “Scratch” Perry, Neville Staple and Pauline Black.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
ANNE CLARK: I’LL WALK OUT INTO TOMORROW Dir. Claus Withopf, 2018, Germany, 81 mins Saturday 10 November · 3:30 pm · Barbican Cinema 3
In a compelling act of musical alchemy, poet Anne Clark turned punk’s creative heat into coolly eloquent analogue-synth soundscapes whose influence, three decades on, remains. A revealing look at a famously reticent electro icon.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
SILVANA Dir. Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, Christina Tsiobanelis, 2017, UK, 95 mins Saturday 10 November · 6:00 pm · Curzon Soho
Swedish hip-hop artist Silvana Imam’s raw, autobiographical raps about sexual identity, feminism, politics and her Syrian/Lithuanian background have made her a star. A revealing portrait of a young artist: arrogant, insecure and charismatic.
WORLD PREMIERE + Q&A
STORIES FROM THE SHE-PUNKS +LIVE PERFORMANCE
+ Short film: To The Front: Scenes From a Women’s Rock Camp
Dirs. Gina Birch and Helen Reddington, 2018, UK, 45 mins Saturday 10 November · 7:00 pm · Genesis Cinema
(Un)typical girls: musicians-turned-directors Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and Helen Reddington (The Chefs) interview the women who played instruments in punk bands in the 1970s.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
BLUE NOTE RECORDS – BEYOND THE NOTES Dir. Sophie Huber, 2018, Switzerland/USA, 85 mins Sunday 11 November · 3:00 pm · Picturehouse Central
An insightful homage to the iconic American jazz label, combining rare archive footage and insights from artists including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire.
THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 6:30 pm
OUR MOST BRILLIANT FRIENDS SLOW CLUB
Barbican Cinema 1 |
world premiere
+ q&a
FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 6:30 pm KOJEY RADICAL SHORT FILM 8:00 pm Photographers’ Gallery | world premiere + q&a 9:00 pm
WE ARE THE LEAGUE (HOW DEEP DO YOU WANT IT?)
Genesis Cinema | world premiere + q&a
SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER 3:00 pm
SOME OTHER GUYS THE STORY OF THE BIG THREE
Curzon Soho | london premiere + q&a 4:00 pm
SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND THE WEDDING PRESENT
Rio Dalston | london premiere + q&a 6:30 pm
U25
MY VIEW: CLEM BURKE
Picturehouse Central | uk premiere + q&a
SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2:30 pm
ROCKABUL
Genesis Cinema | uk premiere + q&a 4:00 pm
MANTRA: SOUNDS INTO SILENCE
Barbican Cinema 3 | uk premiere + q&a
5:30 pm
RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS
Rio Dalston| q&a + afterparty at ridley market bar
U25
WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 8:00 pm
NEVER STOP - A MUSIC THAT RESISTS
Everyman Cinema King’s Cross | uk premiere + q&a
THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 6:30pm
I CAN ONLY BE MARY LANE
Picturehouse Central | uk premiere + q&a 7:30 pm
MUSIC SHORTS DOC NIGHT
House of Vans | premiereS + q&a 8:45 pm
ANORAC
Barbican Cinema 1 | london premiere + q&a
FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 6:00
IS IT PUNK MUSIC?
Picturehouse Central | uk premiere + q&a
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER 3:30 pm
ANNE CLARK: I’LL WALK OUT INTO TOMORROW
Barbican Cinema 3 | uk premiere + q&a 6:30 pm
SILVANA
Curzon Soho | london premiere + q&a 7:00 pm
STORIES FROM THE SHE-PUNKS
Genesis Cinema | world premiere + q&a + SHort film: TO THE FRONT: SCENES FROM A WOMEN’S ROCK CAMP
SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 3:00 pm
BLUE NOTE RECORDS - BEYOND THE NOTES Picturehouse Central | london premiere + q&a
4:00 pm
SEPULTURA ENDURANCE
Rio Dalston | uk premiere + q&a
5:00 pm
THE LIBRARY MUSIC FILM
Curzon Soho | uk premiere + q&a
MONDAY 12 NOVEMBER 8:45 pm
CHILLY GONZALES: SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO
Barbican Cinema 1 | eXCluSiVe q&a
TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 8:30 pm
MY DARLING SON: MORSKI & THE TURBANS Rich Mix | uk premiere + q&a
WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 6:30 pm
MYTH
Picturehouse Central | uk premiere + q&a 8:30 pm
SLAVE TO THE GRIND
Rich Mix | london premiere + q&a
U25
THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 8:45 pm
RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS
Ritzy 9:10 pm
ABOUT A BADLY DRAWN BOY
Picturehouse Central | london premiere + q&a
SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 1:00 pm
BLUE NOTE RECORDS - BEYOND THE NOTES Ronnie Scott’s| SCreeninG + q&a
4:00 pm
HOW THEY GOT OVER: GOSPEL QUARTETS AND THE ROAD TO ROCK’N ROLL Picturehouse Central | uk premiere + q&a
6:30 pm
SO, WHICH BAND IS YOUR BOYFRIEND IN...?
Genesis Cinema | london premiere + q&a
SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER 4:00 pm
PURE LOVE: THE VOICE OF ELLA FITZGERALD
Bertha DocHouse | SHort film: CLAUDIO FASOLI’S INNERSOUNDS 5:30 pm
ETHIOPIQUES: REVOLT OF THE SOUL
Curzon Soho | uk premiere + q&a 6:00 pm
LISTEN TO MY SONG
Picturehouse Central | world premiere + q&a
UK PREMIERE
SEPULTURA ENDURANCE
U25
Dir. Otavio Juliano, 2017, Brazil, 100 mins Sunday 11 November · 4:00 pm · Rio Dalston
Part concert film, part testimonial to the power of music, part intimate insider view, Sepultura Endurance is a close-focus portrait of Brazil’s rock legends, featuring previously unseen archival footage.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
THE LIBRARY MUSIC FILM Dirs. Paul Elliott & Sean Lamberth, 2018, UK, 99 mins Sunday 11 November · 5:00 pm · Curzon Soho
Some of the best music ever written… but never commercially released. Created for film, TV and advertising, these rare recordings have a following among crate-digging cognoscenti. Shawn Lee goes in search of its pioneers.
EXCLUSIVE Q&A
CHILLY GONZALES – SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO Dir. Philipp Jedicke, 2018, Germany, 82 mins Monday 12 November · 8:45 pm · Barbican Cinema 1
Truth, fiction and mischief collide in a look at the Grammy winner and genre-juggling provocateur of Berlin’s underground electronic scene as he infiltrates classical music’s concert halls.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
MY DARLING SON: MORSKI & THE TURBANS Dir. Pavlina Ivanova, 2018, Bulgaria, 61 mins Tuesday 13 November · 8:30 pm · Rich Mix
At 43, Miroslav Morski finally gets his chance to make it as a musician in Hackney-based band the Turbans, whose “music from manywhere” reflects its members’ roots in Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel, Iran, Greece, Spain and England.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
MYTH Dirs. Leonid Kanter and Ivan Yasniy, 2017, Ukraine, 62 mins Wednesday 14 November · 6:30 pm · Picturehouse Central
The remarkable and tragic story of “the voice from the Don”, Vasyl Slipak, a world-class opera singer who abandoned fame and family in France to join the volunteers fighting Russian-backed separatists on Ukraine’s eastern front.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
SLAVE TO THE GRIND Dir. Doug Brown, 2018, Canada, 100 mins Wednesday 14 November · 8:30 pm · Rich Mix
In the factory towns of Flint, Michigan and Birmingham, England in the 1980s, punk rockers and metalheads forged a new genre that was too punk for metalheads and too heavy for punks. This is the story of grindcore.
RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS Dir. Nicolas Jack Davies, 2018, UK, 85 mins Thursday 15 November · 8:45 pm · Ritzy
The love affair between Jamaican and British youth culture, told through the prism of one of black music’s most iconic labels, Trojan Records, with insights from artists including Lee “Scratch” Perry, Neville Staple and Pauline Black.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
ABOUT A BADLY DRAWN BOY: THE STORY OF THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST Dir. The Mitcham Submarine, 2018, UK, 95 mins Thursday 15 November · 9:10 pm · Picturehouse Central
An in-depth feature film all about the boy himself, Damon Gough, and the legacy of his Mercury Prize-winning album The Hour of Bewilderbeast, 18 years after its 2000 release.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
BLUE NOTE RECORDS – BEYOND THE NOTES Dir. Sophie Huber, 2018, Switzerland/USA, 85 mins Saturday 17 November · 1:00 pm · Ronnie Scott’s
An insightful homage to the iconic American jazz label, combining rare archive footage and insights from artists including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
HOW THEY GOT OVER: GOSPEL QUARTETS AND THE ROAD TO ROCK’N’ROLL Dir. Robert Clem, 2017, USA, 87 mins Saturday 17 November · 4:00pm · Picturehouse Central
Archival clips and interviews tell the story of America’s black gospel quartets in the racially segregated postwar era, and how they paved the way to rock’n’roll from doo-wop and from R&B to hip-hop.
LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A
SO, WHICH BAND IS YOUR BOYFRIEND IN….? Dir. Suzy Harrison, 2018, UK 2018, 97 min Saturday 17 November · 6:30 pm · Genesis Cinema
Involved in music since childhood, director Suzy Harrison was struck by the seeming invisibility of women in the UK’s underground music scenes. She went in search of them and their stories.
PURE LOVE: THE VOICE OF ELLA FITZGERALD
+ Short film: Claudio Fasoli’s Innersounds
Dir. Katja Duregger, 2017, Germany, 52 mins Sunday 18 November · 4:00 pm · Bertha DocHouse
A tribute to The First Lady of Song, a century after her birth. Katia Duregger explores the secret of her peerless voice. With Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Regina Carter and more.
UK PREMIERE + Q&A
ETHIOPIQUES: REVOLT OF THE SOUL Dir. Maciek Bochniak, 2017, Poland/Germany, 70 mins Sunday 18 November · 5:30pm · Curzon Soho
The fascinating story of the birth of recorded Ethiopian music, imbued with the flavours of funk, soul and jazz, and a French journalist’s 20-year journey to share it with the world.
WORLD PREMIERE + Q&A
LISTEN TO MY SONG Dir. Danny Mitchell, 2018, UK, 49 mins Sunday 18 November · 6:00 pm · Picturehouse Central
Esteban joined Colombia’s FARC guerrillas at 13. After the conflict ends, he performs at a peace concert and is spotted by a producer. A musical career beckons – but first the rapper must come to terms with his past.
VENUES BARBICAN
Cinema 1 Barbican Centre, Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS PICTUREHOUSE CENTRAL
Corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue Piccadilly W1D 7DH RONNIE SCOTT’S
47 Frith Street, Soho London W1D 4HT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY
16-18 Ramillies Street, Soho London W1F 7LW GENESIS CINEMA THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY
93-95 Mile End Road London E1 4UJ HOUSE OF VANS
Arches 228-232, Station Approach Road Lambeth SE1 8SW
CURZON SOHO
99 Shaftesbury Avenue Soho W1D 5DY
BERTHA DOCHOUSE
Curzon Bloomsbury The Brunswick Centre Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW RITZY PICTUREHOUSE
Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane Brixton SW2 1JG RICH MIX
35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA THE CASTLE CINEMA GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHERS
First Floor, 64 - 66 Brooksby’s Walk London E9 6DA EVERYMAN CINEMA
14-18 Handyside St, Kings Cross London N1C 4DN
JURY MEMBERS Oli Harbottle Head of distribution and acquisitions at film distributors Dogwoof, and part of the team that made the decision to specialise in feature-length documentaries. Jess Partridge Project manager of Keychange at the PRS Foundation, a talent development programme for women across Europe, and editor of London’s best gig guide, London in Stereo. Geoff Travis Joint MD of legendary label Rough Trade Records, now in its 38th year of championing imaginative, diverse and innovative independent music.
Estella Adeyeri Sound engineer, multi-instrumentalist, music coach at Girls Rock London, and member of the bands Big Joanie, Witching Waves and Charmpit.
Kirsty Allison Writer/poet, artist, publisher and editor of COLD LIPS, frontwoman of the Children of the Burning Sun and author of the forthcoming novel Vagrant Lovers.
TEAM Vanessa Lobon Co-director and programmer
Sara Martin In-house designer
Colm Forde Co-director and programmer
Morven Masterton Event organiser
Bruna Amaral Head of photography
Karen Shook Communications
Aida Bañeres Shorts programmer
Münster Studio Cover design
Francesco Ferrari Audio-visual team
Anne Marie McGregor Event organiser
Amelia Gardiner Festival coordinator
Laurence Dorrington Brand designer
THANKS TO: Sara-Jane Meredith and John McKinght from BFI, Editpool for editing this year´s festival trailer. Thanks to our hosts, filmakers and artists, partners and volunteers.
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