| SCARED OF REVOLUTION

| Documentary

| 72 mins 

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| Umar Bin Hassan hasn’t even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there’s sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times starting in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan’s personal life, in which he still fights his demons. He grew up poor with a violent, unpredictable father, which in turn left him with an inferiority complex. In the course of his adult life, he has had a string of bad relationships and left children without a father figure. In his darkest hour, he also battled a crack addiction.

 

| Director: Daniel Krikke

| DP: Thomas Fibbe

| Production: Ideefix Film & Media

| Edit: Tim Schijf

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| SCREENINGS

| Nederlands Film Festival

| IDFA [nominated for Best Dutch Documentary]

| Full Frame Festival [nominated for Emerging Artist Award]

| Against Gravity Film Festival

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