This screening includes This is the Life
- Date and time:
- Sun, Sept 15, 2013, From 6:30–8:07 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 37 min
- Cost:
- Free, but ticketed
Series: Ava DuVernay and AFFRM
About This is the Life
- Year Released:
- 2008
- Genres:
- Documentary
- Metadata:
A Call to Action - Ava DuVernay and AFFRM Championed as one of the “must-see hip-hop documentaries” by the LA Weekly, Ava DuVernay’s award-winning directorial debut, This is the Life, documents the progressive hip-hop scene that coalesced in 1990s Los Angeles around The Good Life Café’s weekly open-mic nights. DuVernay (also seen here as MC Eve of Figures of Speech) traces the origins and legacy of The Good Life scene as an alternative musical and lifestyle movement asserting itself against the city’s dominant gangster rap culture. DuVernay’s first experiences with self-distribution for This is the Life informed the strategy behind her creation of AFFRM. (2K DCP presentation)