Abdullah Ibrahim: How Improvisation Saved My Life

The potent directing team of Melbourne’s Tessa Chong and London’s Lee Arkapaw animate a fantastic story by acclaimed South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim about surviving apartheid and the power of improvisation.

Commissioned by NPR’s ‘Jazz Night in America.’
 

Client: NPR – Jazz Night in America
Director/animators: Tessa Chong, Lee Arkapaw
Narrator: Abdullah Ibrahim
Producer: Colin Marshall
 

Stephen Price

Stephen is the editor and CD of Stash Media Inc. He lives in the Hudson Valley but still feels very Canadian.
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