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  • For My Sisters (2014)
  • 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
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For My Sisters (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In his film FOR MY SISTERS, Stephanus Domanig accompanies Carole Alston on an emotional musical search for places, venues and people that are inextricably linked with the life story of the three jazz singers: Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan ...See moreIn his film FOR MY SISTERS, Stephanus Domanig accompanies Carole Alston on an emotional musical search for places, venues and people that are inextricably linked with the life story of the three jazz singers: Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone. These voices of jazz, marked by the resistance against racism and suppression, were brilliant at exposing injustices without actually stating them. The film opens a door into a forgotten world of inequality, the repercussions of which can be felt to this very day. Carole meets old jazz legends and new Sisters, thus drawing a link to the present and finding herself and the music in her life: jazz needs to be lived to be played. See less
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Composer
Carole Alston
Cinematographer
Birgit Gudjonsdottir
Editor
Julia Drack
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Updated Dec 9, 2015
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Dec 13, 2014 (Germany)

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