"Afro-Punk"

Directed by: James Spooner
When: 7 pm Wednesday, March 17, 2004,
6 pm Saturday, March 20, 2004
Where: HCC Ybor Performing Arts Theater

Afro-Punk: the "rock n roll nigger" experience, a 66-minute documentary, explores race identity within the punk scene.

More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical "black history month" documentary, this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power through a close-up of the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in situations that could only happen to some one who had to experience the duality of a person of color in a mostly white community.

The style of the documentary inter-cuts interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the nation with scenes from our four protagonists' lives. They come from different regions, generations, genders, and sexual preferences but their stories are the same. The "rock n roll nigger" experience is the same.

Afro-Punk features performances by Bad Brains, Tamar Kali, Cipher, and Ten Grand. It also contains exclusive interviews by members of Fishbone, 247- spyz, D.H. Peligro of Dead Kennedys, Carley of Candiria, and Chaka Malik of Orange 9mm fame to name a few.