blues, film, blues, 2015, canadian, documentary, film, directed, daniel, cross, film, explores, culture, blues, music, beginning, blue, front, cafe, bentonia, mississippi, expanding, outward, profile, many, oldest, blues, musicians, still, performing, traditio. I Am the Blues is a 2015 Canadian documentary film directed by Daniel Cross 1 The film explores the culture of blues music beginning at the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia Mississippi and expanding outward to profile many of the oldest blues musicians who are still performing on the traditional African American Chitlin Circuit 2 I Am the BluesFilm posterDirected byDaniel CrossWritten byDaniel CrossProduced byDaniel Cross Bob Moore Mila Aung Thwin Bruce CowleyCinematographyJohn PriceEdited byRyan MullinsMusic byKim HoProductioncompanyEyeSteelFilmRelease dateOctober 2015 2015 10 IDFA Running time106 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish Musicians appearing in the film include Bobby Rush Barbara Lynn Henry Gray Carol Fran Little Freddie King Lazy Lester Robert Bilbo Walker Jimmy Duck Holmes R L Boyce L C Ulmer and Paul Lil Buck Sinegal 3 The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in October 2015 4 and had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in May 2016 5 The film won two Canadian Screen Awards at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017 for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Documentary 6 References edit Movie review I Am the Blues gives genre s ambassadors a voice Montreal Gazette June 10 2016 I Am the Blues Directed by Daniel Cross Exclaim May 4 2016 Here Are 6 Must See Music Films at Hot Docs Exclaim April 19 2016 Documentairefestival IDFA maakt muziekprogramma bekend 3VOOR12 October 9 2015 Review I am the Blues POV April 28 2016 Orphan Black wins big at Canadian Screen Awards Hamilton Spectator March 13 2017 External links editOfficial website I Am the Blues at IMDb nbsp nbsp This article related to a Canadian documentary film of the 2010s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a music related documentary film is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title I Am the Blues film amp oldid 1168415781, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
