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IThemba
iThemba is a feature-length documentary film shot in Zimbabwe, directed and produced by Elinor Burkett and produced by Errol Webber, who also shot and edited the film. It premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2010. The film follows the members of the Zimbabwean band Liyana, a group of eight physically disabled musicians who navigate a country where several superstitious citizens believe them to be cursed. The film explores the band's performances and dynamics as they travel to vastly difference environments, such as across Bulawayo city, remote villages, rural bottle shops, urban marketplaces, traditional healers' huts and the neighborhoods of the urban poor. The music band features Prudence Mabhena and Marvelous Mbulo as the lead singers, a palsied legless woman and a charismatic philanderer born with Muscular Dystrophy respectively. Energy Maburutse is the band's marimba player who uses humor to cope with the constant pain he is under from brittle bone disease. The film includes the band's satirical jokes and performances of Afro-fusion melodies, most composed by members of Liyana.…
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iThemba is a feature-length documentary film shot in Zimbabwe, directed and produced by Elinor Burkett and produced by Errol Webber, who also shot and edited the film. It premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2010. The film follows the members of the Zimbabwean band Liyana, a group of eight physically disabled musicians who navigate a country where several superstitious citizens believe them to be cursed. The film explores the band's performances and dynamics as they travel to vastly difference environments, such as across Bulawayo city, remote villages, rural bottle shops, urban marketplaces, traditional healers' huts and the neighborhoods of the urban poor. The music band features Prudence Mabhena and Marvelous Mbulo as the lead singers, a palsied legless woman and a charismatic philanderer born with Muscular Dystrophy respectively. Energy Maburutse is the band's marimba player who uses humor to cope with the constant pain he is under from brittle bone disease. The film includes the band's satirical jokes and performances of Afro-fusion melodies, most composed by members of Liyana.…
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