2008 Maui Film Festival Archive

American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck journeys to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali on a boundary-breaking musical adventure that simultaneously explores the little known African roots of the banjo and the beauty and complexity of both Africa and its musical talent.  More...

Could it be that street musicians are the best musicians in the world, precisely because they are motivated mainly by faith—the faith that music can change the world? So we discover in this globe-trotting doc, which carries a curb-side recording of Stand By Me to many lands, laying on audio-delicious overdubs. We meet a washboard-strummer in New Orleans (It'll take a bowl-doozer to drive me away from here), a saxophonist in dirt-shanty South Africa, Tibetans, Zuni, Manu Chao, Keb' Mo', all forming a grand choir that gets people dancing in their seats.  More...