OFFICIAL SELECTION AT 2004 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

The rapumentary Ngatahi: Know The Links by Aotearoa hip-hop artist and filmmaker Dean Hapeta, aka Te Kupu (The Word) is an Official Selection at the prestigious 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

Dean Hapeta has been producing sociopolitically charged rap, poetry, music and film/video with Upper Hutt Posse, and as a solo recording artist, for fifteen years. In Ngatahi (meaning together) hip-hop, poetry, activism and music exists as one. Featuring footage and music from Cuba, Colombia, Hawaii, USA, France, Canada, Australia, Jamaica, England and Aotearoa Ngatahi is a medley of interconnected stories that tell of the history and actuality of survival and struggle in the face of colonisation, corruption and injustice. From Brixton to Harlem, Trenchtown to Waitangi, Ngatahi is full of uplifting voices and stirring outpourings of many of the indigenous and marginalised people of the world.

Music from Reachout 2002 (Jamaica), Ernie Kruz (Hawaii), La Heroi-k (Colombia), Wire MC and Milkybar (Australia), Dall?as Cartel (France), Havana locals (Cuba), Upper Hutt Posse (Aotearoa) and many, many more musicians compliment the free flow of words and beats. This double disc DVD RAP-UMENTARY is a stimulating street-wise orchestration of philosophical thought from indigenous and marginalised people in Canada, England, France, Colombia, Hawaii, USA, Jamaica, Cuba, Australia and Aotearoa.

Step into a zone where HIP HOP, POETRY AND ACTIVISM exist as one. Combining music and images with thoughts and comprehensions, rappers, poets and thinkers share their views alongside free mumia rallies, the million family march the X1 intermnational poetry festival in Medellin, rastafarian nyahbingi, aboriginal reality, hawaiian self-determination, maori activism, french rap, cuban street music, brixton reasoning, first nation resolution and more...