Assembled from a
decade’s worth
of video
clips, this
documentary
follows street
kids in a
Conakry
alternative
music school
as they grow
into
full-fledged
artists.
In 2009,
two veteran
Guinean
theater
activists
founded the
Centre Tyabala
de Guinée and
began
recruiting
street kids
and provide
them with
training in
theater
arts—acting,
dancing,
drumming, and
singing—alongside an elementary education.
A few years
later,
Canadian
flutist
Sylvain Leroux
brought an
alternative
music literacy
pilot program
based on the
traditional
Guinean “Fula
flute.” The
merging of
these two
initiatives
propelled the
kids to
extraordinary
heights of
creativity and
self-realization. This film recounts their journey.
Audiences are engrossed and feel enriched to get so
close to these
young people,
to enter their
world, develop
affection and
root for them
in the pursuit
of their goals
while
experiencing
the rich
textures of
daily life in
the Guinean
capital.
