WHO IS HIGHLIFE?
musicdocu by Wilma Kiener - Dieter Matzka – Yahaya Alpha Suberu
Highlife Music is the Rock'n'Roll Africas, and all started in the westafrican Ghana.
Ghana swings from morning until well after midnight to the tunes of Highlife Music. Ever since the heydays of colonialism, West African musicians have created a combination of typical Ghanaian beats with constantly changing Western influence - from the rhythmical palm wine music, Kwame Nkrumah's national confession for dance band Highlife, the exiled Ghanians musicians in Germany in the 80s, to HipLife now.
The musicians are competing for the true and best highlife song with such as Ghana - Land of Freedom, Come to Africa, Akwankwa, Highlife in the Air, Money is Blood, Odo Beba, Ocean Wind, Tonight, Highlife Agogo, No Beer in Heaven, Wo Fa Ta Me and others, thereby setting in motion feelings of homesickness and cosmopolitanism, moment and utopia, vitality and sense of reality.
What is the secret of Highlife?
If it is true that there are only three things that can alter a man's sense of himself - Religion, Sex and Drugs - what then is Highlife? According to the famous Highlife expert Professor John Collins there can be little doubt: Music is the carrier in the human brain which manipulates the soul and spirit.
The film „Who is Highlife?“ was produced in the years 2007 and 2008 when the big concerts of the Goethe-Institut in Accra „Made in Germany - Burger Highlife“ took place. With Nana Asamoah, John Collins, Nana Aboagye Da-Costa, George Darko, Lee Dodou, McGod, Bob Fiscian, Albert Jones, Daddy Lumba and Nana Acheampong (Lumba Brothers), E.T. Mensah, Pat Thomas, Atongo Zimba ...
Credits: Germany/Austria/Ghana – 2009
Support: Bavarian Film Fonds, Goethe Institut, Government Upper Austria, Ghana Tourist Board
Production: Matzka-Kiener-Filmproduktion (D), Lampion Film (A) and Cinecon Africa (GH) limited
Format: DVCam / Digi Beta 106 minutes
FESTIVALS:
27th International Filmfest Munich 2009, 9th Tage des Ethnologischen Films 2009, 2nd Unerhoert! International Music Filmfestival Hamburg 2009, 8. KaraFilm Festival Karachi Pakistan
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
NYU Singapure, Goethe Institut Burkina Faso, Goethe Institut Accra Ghana,
Wants
World sales of WHO IS HIGHLIFE? has ** SHK Distribution** , 105, rue de l'Abbé Groult, 75015 Paris Phone : 33 1 45 54 79 79, Fax : 33 1 45 54 79 80. Contact: Christine Klaver.
We invite all international broadcasters to get informed about the music documentary. Special we invite such broadcaster and other companies which are dealing with programs for the black communities like in US, UK, Canada, France, Caribbean and South America. Highlife music is a well known music for Africans and they love it.
