WAVE TWISTERS THE MOVIE:

Featured in the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and Won the Audience Award at the 2001 SXSW Film Festival.  This film is the world’s first hip-hop animated concept-album. Wave Twisters is an eye-popping, hip-hop meets Hanna-Barbera, animated adventure synched skratch for skratch with DJ Qbert’s turntable masterpiece of the same name. Each Track of Q-Bert’s original album was designed to provide the audio framework for another chapter in this sci-fi/kung-fu epic. Every aspect of the story – music, sound effects – even dialogue – has been seamlessly integrated into Q-Bert’s original musical compositions. Wave Twisters gives visual expression to Q-Bert’s narrative while pioneering the concept of visual skratching. 

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Scratch the Movie is a documentary film, directed and edited by Doug Pray.  The film explores the world of the hip-hop DJ. From the birth of hip-hop, when pioneering DJ's began extending breaks on their party records (which helped inspire break dancing and rap), to the invention of scratching and beat-juggling vinyl, to its more recent explosion as a musical movement called turntablism, it's a story of unknown underdogs and serious virtuosos who have radically changed the way we hear, play and create music.

                                 

Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.??This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.” The film showcases many of hip-hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground—while also featuring emerging hip-hop artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more.?It also provides an in-depth look at artists who have been sampled, such as Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown’s drummer and the world’s most sampled musician), as well as commentary by another highly sampled musician, funk legend George Clinton.As artists find ever more inventive ways to insert old influences into new material, this documentary asks a critical question, on behalf of an entire creative community: Can you own a sound??Support for Copyright Criminals provided in part by the Independent Television Service, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the University of Iowa.
  
    

HANG THE DJ:

Hang the DJ  - Premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in 1998.  It is simply about  One Planet, Two Turntables, 33 1/3 Revolutions per minute .  A vivid documentary  that showcased the 3 biggest DJs in their genre , Junior Vasquez, Roger Sanchez, and DJ QBert.   Hang the DJ was nominated for Grand Prix Asturias the coveted award of the Gijon International Film Festival in Spain.