If you are a fan of documentary film then Damani Baker’s name should be immediately familiar to you as one-half of the directing team on “Still Bill,” the 2009 feature length doc on legendary soul music singer Bill Withers and easily one of the best music-based documentaries of the last decade. On a whole his career spans documentaries, music videos, museum installations and advertisements and he is also an alum of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces in Independent Film”
But despite his focus on the work of others, as often occurs, it’s the most personal projects that take on the greatest significance. Reflecting and retracing his family’s exploits in early 1980’s revolutionary…
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