Thomas Pynchon A Journey into the Mind of ... @ NXNE (Toronto)

[Dave Monroe]

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
NXNE Film Spotlight: Don Letts
Press release unedited:

NXNE Film Spotlight: Don Letts
Acclaimed British Director Premieres Carnival! And Strummerville
Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread Tells The Letts Story Documentaries
Additional Films Announced: Circa 1977: The Diodes/ Music Makes A
City/ Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into The Mind Of...

TORONTO, March 29, 2010 - North by Northeast (NXNE) announces the
first round of film programming for 2010. NXNE Film brings the best in
music-centric films from documentary to drama, and screens 40 films
from June 16-20 during NXNE around the city of Toronto.

NXNE Film curates a program featuring the recent work of Don Letts,the
Grammy Award winning British director. Letts brings his latest film
Carnival! to NXNE for a North American premiere. The film tells the
story of the Notting Hill Carnival which takes over the notable west
London neighbourhood every August. Carnival! presents a visual mosaic
of colour and music of the largest street festival in the world
outside of Trinidad & Tobago.

Letts also screens his film Strummerville which recently played at
SXSW and has its Canadian premiere at NXNE. The film documents the
work of the Strummerville charity which was set up to enable young
musicians to get their art and music out to the world in the spirit
and attitude of The Clash's Joe Strummer.

Over his long film career Letts has told the story of countless lives,
and now it is time to hear his story in the North American premiere of
Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread. Director Raphael Erichsen
spotlights the Letts family legacy that mirrors the history of BASS in
the UK from Dub, Reggae and Punk to 80s pop, Hip Hop and Dubstep.

Additional Films confirmed to date include:

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Thomas Pynchon A Journey into the Mind of... - D: Fosco Dubini
[North American premiere] A film about the cult author Thomas Pynchon
(Gravity's Rainbow), who for 30 years has avoided public appearances,
giving no interviews, and not even allowing himself to be
photographed. Featuring the music of The Residents

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