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This Is the Life

Original title: This Is the Life
Year: 2008
Running time: 97 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ava DuVernay
Screenwriter: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Documentary
Music: Omid Walizadeh
Cinematography: Isaac Klotz
Producer: The DuVernay Agency
Genre: Documentary | Hip Hop. Music Documentary
Synopsis: In 1989, a collective of young artists gathered at a non-descript health food store in gang-infested South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To explore the musical boundaries of hip hop and reject gangster rap. THIS IS THE LIFE chronicles the rise and fall of this "family" of African-American street poets, while examining their obstacles to commercial success. They all took different paths but remain connected by the music they made, the alternative hip hop movement they developed, and their worldwide influence on the art form.

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This Is the Life

2008

Ava DuVernay