- Produced by BFI Southbank
- Price 2 films £16, concs £12; 3 films 26.40, concs £18; 4 films £30, concs £24 (Members pay £1.70 less)
- Get ready for the lesser known story of Punk.
- Bring along attitude, and plenty of it.
- See you at BFI Southbank
With a fantastic soundtrack and remarkable archive footage, this doc explores the rise of punk in South Africa.
Multi-racial punk bands were formed in South Africa in the wake of the Soweto Uprising of 1976. They were inspired by political anger, a shared African identity and bootleg tapes of bands like The Sex Pistols and the Ramones. The Apartheid regime considered their very existence undesirable. Jones and Maas present the previously untold story of how punk spread through Southern Africa, to Mozambique and Zimbabwe, celebrating it with a fantastic soundtrack and remarkable archive footage.
South Africa-Czech Republic-Zimbabwe-Mozambique 2012
Dirs Keith Jones, Deon Maas
82min
