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Your all-access pass provides you free admission to all 4 days of events for this year's festival. For the very generous price of $40.00 you can experience thought-provoking panel discussions, informative workshops/seminars and world premier movie screenings from some of today's most talented young directors and producers. Below you will find a synopsis of what's available to you over the four days of our second annual bootleg festival...

DAY 1 - Wednesday, September 16, 2009

PANELS & WORKSHOPS
Location: True Reformer Building

4-4:45 p.m.
From Mixtapes to Myspace: Building an Independent Hustle
Speakers: Tyrone Norris (One vs. Many), Seez Mics (Educated Consumers), Buddah Bless (Across the Fader), Ron Brown a.k.a. DJ RBI (WPFW)
Moderator: Ashton Wingate, Asst. Creative Director/Features Editor (Mandom Magazine)
Event description: From the Soulja Boy phenomenon to the Obama campaign, we have seen hits and misses with regards to efforts in using the Web to build viral “movements” for artists and entertainers of many kinds. This panel will cover the “dos and don’ts” of developing web and new media campaigns for independent artists. Panelists will outline the tools that should be part of every independent hustle.

5:15-6 p.m.
Radio Retaliation: Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion
Panelists: Dr. Jared A. Ball (professor/founder of Freemix Radio), Nick Schonberger (scholar/curator), Michelle Smith a.k.a. Noodles (On-air host, WPFW/Cookiewear) and Naji Mujahid (emcee), Kenzo Hakuta (Dir., City of God's Son)
Moderator: Bomani “D’Mite” Armah, “Poet with a hip-hop style”
Event description: This panel will address both the artistic history of hip-hop and who “owns” its future. Panelists will answer the questions: What happens when this sample-driven culture called hip-hop defies the laws of our society to create something either beautiful or ugly, but true to the stories of its creators? What’s hip-hop without the sample? How has bootlegging hurt and/or advanced hip-hop as a culture? 

FILMS

6:30-7:30 p.m.
BLOCK 1 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: True Reformer Building

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions

From Black Broadway in the 1920's, through the ‘68 riots, to 21st century gentrification, these emcees and storytellers have rocked coffee shops and concert halls, street corners and speakeasies, and most recently the White House. These video shorts highlight some of today's prominent performers on U Street and pay homage to the prolific poets that came before.
United States | 2 min. | 2009

From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale
Henry Chalfant

This film chronicles two generations who grew up literally on the same streets, and both used rhythm as their form of rebellion – for the older generation it was the pulsating rhythms of Cuba; for their children it was the rhythms of Hip-Hop.
United States | 55 min. | 2009

7:45-9 p.m.
BLOCK 2 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: True Reformer Building

ThruYou (Just a Lady)
Kutiman

ThruYou was created by Israeli DJ Kutiman, comprised of unrelated YouTube videos mixed to create an edited sonic collage. Says Kutiman, “what you see is what you hear.”
Israel | 3 min. | 2009

City of God’s Son
Kenzo Digital

Created by artist Kenzo Digital, the project consists of a 60-minute audio adventure created entirely out of samples. In the City Of God’s Son’s coming of age story, we follow three friends as they navigate through an alternate reality version of New York.
United States | 60 min. | 2009

9-11 p.m.
BLOCK 3 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: Busboys & Poets

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions

The District Rhyme explores the intersection between hip-hop, education and social change. This groundbreaking film tells the stories of hip-hop artists, educators and students as they struggle to transform their lives and communities.
United States | 3 min. | 2009

BORF!
Paris Bustillos

In 2004 a wave of stenciled graffiti swept the country, sparking frustration and curiosity nation wide. For John Tsombikos (the artist behind the Borf Graffiti), his regret over the loss of a friend had turned into a street fight, which he defended with a can of spray paint and a cardboard cutout of his best friend, Borf.
United States | 28 min. | 2005

Chocolate City Burning
Apoxy One

A documentary chronicling one of the most prominent crews to emerge from DC’s graffiti-boom of the 1990’s, the film follows an oddly mixed group of three friends, Sime, Demon and Mega, as they gained notoriety throughout the city in the late 90’s for doing enormous, elaborate, three dimensional murals.Now all in their 30’s, their interviews and reflections on their youth make very clear that, when all was said and done, graffiti was about more than painting, it was a coming of age and a crossing of worlds.
United States | 54 minutes | 2009

DAY 2 - Thursday, September 17, 2009

PANEL
Location: True Reformer Building

4-5 p.m.
The Art of Storytelling for Aspiring Artists and Media Makers
Speakers: Jati Lindsay (photographer), Gabriel “Asheru” Benn (emcee/educator) and Jason Reynolds (writer/performer), Tewodross Melchishua (animator/filmmaker/artist/educator)
Event description: Aspiring authors, filmmakers, media makers and performers, come learn how these storytellers found their own artistic voices and what motivates them to create art that moves people. In each case, these artists have nurtured both cult and mainstream followings.
FILMS

5:20-6:45 p.m.
BLOCK 1 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: True Reformer Building

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Graffitti Research Lab: The Complete First Season
Roth & Powderly

From their origins in trash to their emergence as instigators, Graffitti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their jobs to mock the Dept of Homeland Security. Narrated by GRL co-founders Roth and Powderly, this film was screened at the 2008 Sundance film festival and we are pleased to include it here at bootleg.
United States | 13 minutes | 2008

Who is Bozo Texino?
Bill Daniel

Who is Bozo Texino? chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti– a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, “Bozo Texino”– a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel’s gritty black and white film uncovers a secret society and it’s underground universe of hobo and railworker graffiti.
United States | 56 min. | 2005

7-9 p.m.
BLOCK 2 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: True Reformer Building

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Youth Movement Records

This video, produced in 2009, gives a quick video snapshot of Youth Movement Records, a non-profit, youth-run recording and media company based in Oakland, California.
United States | 4 min. | 2009

Number One with a Bullet
QD3 Entertainment

From the ghettos of Philadelphia to the boardrooms of Los Angeles, Number One With A Bullet pulls back the curtain on gun violence in Hip Hop. This documentary follows five rappers with experience on both ends of the barrel as they take viewers back to the scenes of the crimes and into their darkest hours. QD3 Entertainment brings you Number One With A Bullet, a groundbreaking look into the epidemiology of gun violence within Urban America.
United States | 1 hr. 45 min. | 2009

PERFORMANCE & OPEN MIC

Location: Expo Lounge
9 p.m.-2 a.m.
Cake & Kisses*
Featured Artists: Jason Reynolds, Lauren Schreiber and Cool Cee Brown
House Artists: The Five One & DJ Earth 1ne
*This event is 21+

DAY 3 - Friday, September 18, 2009

WORKSHOP

Location: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
Cost: $75 with advance tickets | $100 at the door
Friday, September 18, 2009
12-3 p.m.
Metro: Dupont Circle (Red Line)

Rule 4081
Facilitator: Hanifah Walidah
Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.rule4081.eventbrite.com
Event description: Rule 4081 is a three-hour intensive straight-no-chaser workshop designed to strengthen the Internet marketing skills of independent artists. This workshop not just addresses the multitude of online tools, but the attitude, creation and facilitation of a plan that will put them to work. Artists learn to better define and understand their audience in order to engage, grow and distribute their work to their fan base while also recognizing when to get out of their own way to success.
*Please register early! Space is limited for this workshop. Maximum capacity 50.

FILMS
Location: True Reformer Building

4-5:30 p.m.
BLOCK 1 FILM SCREENINGS

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Where You From
Sabrina Lee

Where You From enters the lives of three extraordinary individuals as it chronicles their pursuit of acceptance, fame, and even salvation. The feature length documentary is a visually stunning, provocative portrait of young men confronting small town life, broken families, and drug addiction– ultimately seeking triumph in their music.
United States | 1 hr. 16 min. | 2009

5:45-7 p.m.
BLOCK 2 FILM SCREENINGS

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

HomeGrown: HipLife in Ghana
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi’s new film, HomeGrown: HipLife in Ghana, is a feature-length documentary about V.I.P. (Vision In Progress). The film documents ten years of their journey from the ghetto in Accra to their first international tour. They grow from being teenagers with a shared dream to musicians with fans around the world.
Ghana | 61 min. | 2007

7-9 p.m.
BLOCK 3 FILM SCREENINGS

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Sling Shot Hip-Hop
Jackie Reem Salloum

Slingshot Hip-Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. Palestine| 83 minutes | 2008

PERFORMANCE

Doors open @ 9 p.m.
Location: Almaz Restaurant
Versus Series: Soundtracks vs. Mixtapes*
Featuring: DJ 2 TONE JONES and DJ RODDYROD
*This event is 21+

DAY 4 - Saturday, September 19, 2009

PANEL
Cost: FREE

Festival pass holders will be given priority seating/entry to this event.
1:30-2:15 p.m.
Location: The Lincoln Theatre

Women in Hip-Hop Beyond Misogyny
Speakers: Hanifah Walidah (scholar/artist), Toni Blackman (scholar/artist), Iona Rozeal Brown (scholar/artist), Aysha Upchurch (hip-hop dancer) and Roxanne Shanté (pioneer emcee)
Moderator: Goldie Deane, DC Urban Arts Academy Director/Playwright

FILMS
Cost: FREE

12-2 p.m.
BLOCK 1 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: True Reformer Building

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Embed
Mark Jenkins

In this series, Jenkins dresses his life size tape casts in clothing to create realistic sculptures, which he installs in various positions in urban environments–stuck into traffic cones, trash bags, cans, etc.
United States | 4 min. | 2006

Quality of Life
Benjamin Morgan

Quality of Life is a narrative feature film that tells the gripping and authentic story of Michael “Heir” Rosario and Curtis “Vain” Smith, the most prolific and talented graffiti writers in the Mission District in San Francisco. One unlucky evening, the boys are busted for painting and everything changes. Faced with restitution and the prospect of serving hard time, Heir and Vain struggle to maintain.
United States | 84 min. | 2004

12-1:30 p.m.
BLOCK 2 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: The Lincoln Theatre

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Say My Name
Nirit Peled

Set in the multicultural inner-city communities of London, New York, Chicago, Philly, Detroit, Los Angeles and Atlanta, Say My Name tells the stories of female MCs and R&B singers,  and the women they inspire. The story is built around narratives from these entrepreneurs, mothers and artists, who are fighting to be themselves in a society that creates few chances for women.
United States| 75 min. | 2009

2:45-4 p.m.

BLOCK 3 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: The Lincoln Theatre

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

Democracy in Dakar*
Magee McIlvaine, Chris Moore, & Ben Herson

Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar Senegal. Originally shot as a seven part documentary mini-series released via the Internet – the documentary bridges the gap between hip-hop activism, video journalism and documentary film and explores the role of youth and musical activism on the political process.
Senegal | 1 hr. 9 min. | 2008
*Featuring artists from Nomadic Wax

4:15-5:30 p.m.
BLOCK 4 FILM SCREENINGS
Location: The Lincoln Theatre

Poets on U Featuring…
Charneice Fox & Nigel D. Greaves, Straight No Chaser Productions
United States | 2 min. | 2009

The District Rhyme (trailer, working title)
Dave Adams & Emre Izat, Wake Up the Giant Productions
United States | 3 min. | 2009

AlterEgo
Daniel Thouw

Graffiti is part of almost every major cityscape around the world and is, more or less, part of our everyday lives. AlterEgo takes you to seven major cities around the world and into the lives of some very passionate individuals standing behind those written identities, walking the borderline between creation and destruction, art and vandalism. This worldwide documentary film gives us a close inside look into the biggest art movement the world has seen so far.
Worldwide | 62 min. | 2008

PERFORMANCES

The Circus Concert - FREE - DJ Jav spinning all day long!

Doors open @ 6 p.m., Show will run from 7-9 p.m.
Location: The Lincoln Theatre
Performing Artists: Bomani “D’Mite” Armah, Educated Consumers, Lyriciss, J.Ferb, M1 Platoon, Rosetta Stoned and The Five One

The Circus Concert - $10
Doors open @ 9 p.m., Show will run until 3 a.m.
Location: Expo Lounge
Performing Artists: Educated Consumers, Cubbiebear, Prolyphic, Dezmatic
*This event is 21+

The Circus Concert - $5
Doors open @ 9 p.m., Show will run until 3 a.m.
Location: Axum
Performing Artists: Black Diamond, The Love Peace Project, Mzery Loves Company, Night Train and Enoch 7th Prophet
*This event is 21+

The Circus Concert - $10
Doors open @ 12 a.m., Show will run until 3 a.m.
Location: Bohemian Caverns
Performing Artists: The Five One, Baad Ingrish, M1 Platoon, Lyriciss and J.Ferb
*This event is 18+

The Circus Concert - $5

DJs spinning all night!
Doors open @ 9 p.m., Show will run until 3 a.m.
Location: Lounge of Three
Metro: U St/African-Amer. Civil War Memorial/Cardozo (Green Line)
*This event is 21+