H2ONewsreel: The Best in Hip-Hop Media, Education, and Culture
H2ONEWSREEL is a multi-media independent distribution outlet providing the Best in Hip-Hop Media, Education and Culture.
It acquires media projects and facilitates the creation of study guides for the education and urban entertainment markets. H2ONEWSREEL offers among the most competitive percentage agreement to independent filmmakers and split profits on a non-exclusive agreement. Formed in September 2008, H2ONEWSREEL is now releasing its titles to the international educational sector. H2ONEWSREEL is featuring documentaries including: MASIZAKHE, FREKUENSIA KOLOMBIANA, and an award-winning short series collection. Filmmakers whose projects are aligned with the H2ONEWSREEL mission will be selected to work closely with staff members on their marketing campaigns, programming and distribution goals to offer more cultivation and resources.
H2ONewsreel is a project of The Hip-Hop Education Center, previously Hip-Hop Association (H2A) and Third World Newsreel (TWN) to provide the Best in Hip-Hop Media, Education, and Culture.
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She Rhymes Like a Girl
Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.More Information -
Scene Not Heard
Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.More Information -
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.More Information -
Mr. Devious
This documentary on South African Hip-Hop artist Mr. Devious presents his hardcore style of rapping about ghetto life in Cape Flats, and his untimely murder.More Information -
Masizakhe: Building Each Other
This documentary explores the role of art, social activism and Hip-Hop in South Africa’s education system after the end of Apartheid.More Information -
Living the Hiplife
Shot in Accra, Ghana, this documentary follows the birth of Hiplife music, a mix of various African musical forms and American Hip-Hop.More Information -
La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx
Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.More Information -
Sold outKnowledge Reigns Supreme
Using the words and music of rapper KRS-1, this video short questions the current wave of multiculturalism in the educational system.More InformationSold out -
Sold outKnow Your Enemy
KNOW YOUR ENEMY critiques the mass media's bias against rap music and culture.More InformationSold out -
Is It Sweet? Tales of an African Superstar in New York
Ghana’s Hip-Hop superstar Reggie Rockstone travels to New York, where he experiences the unexpected struggles and pleasures of life as an anonymous African on the fringes of an American city.More Information -
Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano
A look at the work of Cuban Hip-Hop artists, this documentary includes footage of their daily lives, perfomances at the Cuban Hip-Hop festival, and recording sessions in New York City.More Information -
I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
This film documents the creation of Morocco’s first-ever Hip-Hop festival and the work of DJ Key, female rapper Fati, and rap group H-Kayne.More Information -
Hiphopistan: Representing Locality in a Global City
Young Turkish rappers, DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists creatively blend foreign cultural influences with their local cultural values and traditions.More Information -
Frekuensia Kolombiana
Grassroots Colombian Hip-Hop is shaped by Colombian folk music as well as the suppressed voices of the Colombian masses.More Information -
Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement
Independent Hip-Hop artists from large and small cities talk about their creative work and their increasingly widening influence in Chinese society.More Information -
Favela Rising
Through Hip-Hop music and Afro-Brazilian dance, musician Anderson Sá rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.More Information -
Diamonds in the Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution
From the ashes of four decades of war, AIDS and corruption in Uganda, The Bataka Squad artists, Babaluku and Saba Saba, rise to forge a revolutionary path using music.More Information -
Democracy in Dakar
This film explores the transformative role of Hip-Hop in politics in Senegal during the 2007 presidential election campaign.More Information -
Sold outColor Schemes
COLOR SCHEMES uses the cycles of a generic laundromat washing machine as a metaphor to tackle misconceptions about racial assimilation.More InformationSold out -
Blaze: The Truth Through Hip Hop
The Hip-Hop Christian movement has been uplifting youth by delivering positive religious messages that are not about drugs, sex, or hate but of hope and peace.More Information -
Arctic Hip Hop
Capitalizing on the popularity of Hip-Hop, social worker and longtime B-boy Stephen Leafloor has been bringing positive Hip-Hop workshops to Northern Canada. 5 days, 2 cultures, 1 beatMore Information -
All the Ladies Say
Documentary on Female BreakdancersMore Information -
#Bars4Justice a.k.a. Bars4Justice
Hip-Hop activists give more than their talent when they come face to face with the justice system in Ferguson, Missouri.More Information
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