Panorama: Jamming to the Top
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2018
United States
74 mins
Documentary Film Competition
| Christine Shaw | |
| Artie Shaw Jr, Christine Shaw | |
This documentary follows a vibrant community of people in Brooklyn NY who love steel pan and are fighting to keep it alive. Through their preparation for an annual steel band competition, known as Panorama, we see how their love and passion helps them to overcome several challenges and obstacles facing the pan community. Through the lens of Steel Xplosion’s journey to Panorama, viewers get a raw look into what life is like in the pan yard and why pan players are willing to sacrifice so much for the opportunity to play pan in Brooklyn and to compete on a national stage. As a newly formed band in 2013, we see how the players in Steel Xplosion persevered through a challenging summer to come out on top.
About the Director
Christine Shaw is a Brooklyn-born Documentary Filmmaker and Producer. She’s passionate about creating socially relevant documentaries that shine a positive light on the issues facing the African-American and Caribbean community. Panorama: Jamming to the Top is her first feature-length documentary.
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