Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war, peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 children in the Okutiuka orphanage under the care of Sonia Ferreira. Her boyfriend, Wilker Flores, is a death metal guitarist who uses sounds and rhythms of this hardcore music as a path to healing. Or, as Sonia says, “to clear out the debris from all these years of war.” The feature documentary follows Wilker and Sonia’s attempts to stage Angola’s first-ever national rock concert, bringing together members from different strands of the Angolan hardcore scene from different provinces, as it all unfolds in fits and starts, against the bombed out and mined backdrop of the formerly stately Huambo.
Death Metal Angola
November 7, 2014
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Sonia Ferreira
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Wilker Flores
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Jeremy Xido
Director
Jeremy Xido
Producer
Vlad Yudin
Executive Producer
Amanda Burr
Co-Producer
Travis Burgess
Associate Producer
David Gallagher
Executive Producer
Joseph Castelo
Producer
Edwin Mejia Jr.
Executive Producer
Christian Frederickson
Music
Johan Legraie
Director of Photography
Todd Holmes
Editor