Award winning hip hop documentary hits the streets
By Mike Ashworth | May 3, 2009
‘SOUTH COAST‘ is a character driven documentary about how a culture as intrinsically American as hip hop has taken root and mutated in a quintessentially British way in the least likely of places…. its seaside towns.
The film is packed full of utterly engaging characters (as well as bigger names such as Norman Cook, Plan B, Killa Kela, JFB, Beardyman and Dr Syntax) who subvert preconceptions of hip hop just being about bling, gangstas and sexism in every frame.
It’s a portrait of an underground scene who’s members are smart enough to realise that it’s patently ridiculous to rap about drive-bys when you live in Hove and have taken hip hop in some weird, wonderful and quintessentially British directions…
The film was selected for screening at the prestigious Barbican who described it as “brilliant” and the Daily Telegraph called it “joyful and laid back”. The film won ‘Best Documentary’ in The International Film Makers Festival, and was officially selected for screening at Raindance, Bermuda, Israel, Helsinki, H20 (New York), Black Soil (Rotterdam), De Reel (Australia) and over a dozen others.
This aint East coast…. This aint West Coast…. This is South Coast….The Movie
The 1 minute trailer
The 4 minute trailer
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