Miss Wit Designs presents a special screening of: SOUL POWER. December 4, 2010

1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Muhammad Ali is waiting for his rumble in the jungle with George Foreman, Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine organized a three day music festival featuring an unbelievable lineup of the best R&B, African and salsa musicians of the time. James Brown, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, Yomo Toro, Franco, Rochereau, The Spinners, Miriam Makeba - the list goes on. The plane ride from New York to Zaire, with most of Fania's roster jamming for hours would alone be worth the price of admission but the highlights are plentiful: James Brown and Muhammad Ali talking about black power, Ray Baretto on the street of Kinshasa - and of course, unbelievable performances.

Edited from the same 125 hours of footage that Leon Gast used to make When We Were Kings (which Jeffrey Levy Hinte also edited), Soul Power was shot by a stellar crew made up, among others, of Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), Paul Goldsmith (Rust Never Sleeps), Kevin Keating (Harlan County USA), and Roderick Young (Wattstax). The film is structured in such a way that the narrative unfolds naturally without the aid of a voiceover or talking heads. One of the best music film you'll ever get to see! Directed by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte.

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