Having its UK premiere on 28th October at this year’s Raindance Film Festival where it’s been officially nominated for the Best Music Documentary, Topowa is an uplifting story following the Brass For African band from the slum villages of Katwe in Uganda as they embark on a journey to fulfil their unimaginable dreams of travelling abroad to the UK and playing music at London’s prestigious Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival along with New Orleans’ Grammy Award winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
Film: Topwowa! Never Give Up
Run time: 1hr 23min
Director: Philip Sansom, Inigo GIlmore
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 4/5
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