Featuring the locally made short film Zahir by David Alfonso Guerrero
Meet Zahir, a dynamic 24-year-old artist on a mission to create and inspire. With a passion for music, storytelling, and photography, he embodies the essence of creativity. Join Zahir as he leads us on a captivating exploration of life, art and the pursuit of dreams.
Followed by the feature film Searching For Sugarman by Malik Bendjelloul
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero’s fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.
