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