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This is National Wake

United States, 2022, 66 minutes, Color, English; Turkish captioned


Director:  Mirissa Neff

Cinematography:  Philip Bell

Editing: Doug Lenox, Mirissa Neff

Production: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

This is National Wake traces the wild rise and tragic fall of a multiracial South African punk band, dubbed “the band that defied apartheid,” whose members risked everything to taste freedom. This debut feature, steeped in previously unseen footage of a 1970s anti-racist counterculture that few know existed, reveals a band whose music and memories comprise a profound meditation on how history is lived through art and in our minds.