SummaryFollowing nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror – peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of these children ... Read More
Directed By:Jeremy Xido
Written By:Jeremy Xido
Death Metal Angola
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Nov 25, 2014
91
Death Metal Angola is deeply involving and, in its own way, completely and refreshingly unusual.
Nov 4, 2014
70
While hardly the first or most accomplished film of its kind, Death Metal Angola's focus on the ability of abrasive music to act as a healing agent builds toward genuine moments of renewal and serenity.
Nov 4, 2014
70
An upbeat chronicle of very hard rock in a very hard place, Death Metal Angola is one of the livelier and more enticingly exotic additions to the ever-burgeoning music-documentary sub-genre.
Nov 20, 2014
60
The concert itself was a bold, life-affirming project, but with a couple of additional extended music sequences, Mr. Xido’s film might have been more powerful and way more hardcore.
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Production Company:
- Cabula6
- Coalition Films
Release Date:Nov 7, 2014
Duration:1 h 30 m
Rating:R
Tagline:The hardest hardcore is Angolan hardcore.
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Awards
Rhode Island International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
