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Hip Hop Ciné back on the screen, May 18th to 23nd, 2006.
The rookie in the Film Fest block is back for a second edition next May 18th-21st.

This year’s International du Cinéma Hip Hop de Montréal will hold its projections at Cinéma du Parc.

With works from all over the globe, the Festival’s mission is to showcase various social views and cultural takes through elements of Hip Hop.

Movies go from shining light on life in Brazilian favelas to the lucrative business behind sneaker making, a Palestinian view of the Middle East crisis to the struggle of being an MC in Montreal.
In all, three days of freshness on Film.



That’s all, you ask? Think again. This year, the Festival will also host FUSE:Ahearn & HVW8 ,an Art exhibit showcasing works by local Masters of the brush, Heavyweight side-by-side with exclusive pictures from legendary filmmaker Charlie Ahearn.

For the movie buffs who will get the "Wild Style" all-access pass, the Festival will have a Hospitality lounge (at The Nest) to sprawl in between
screenings and to exchange with other Festival attendants. It’s a good opportunity to bump into Festival guru & friend, Charlie Ahearn who for the second year, will attend the event. Also confirmed to be present are Freestyle director Kevin Fitzgerald, Montrealer Pablo Aravena, director of the documentary “NEXT: an Urban Primer”, as well as Marielle Quesney & Jean Labourette who will Premiere their documentary “Dead Space”.

“Charlie and Kevin represent the beginning, the present and the future of Hip Hop Cinema, says Karl-André St-Victor, Director of all three franchises of the Internationaux du Cinéma Hip Hop du Canada (Montreal, Vancouver and for the first year, Toronto).

They’ve supported us since our first edition in Vancouver back in 2004. It is still surreal to have them with us in this journey but we rely on their guidance. This Festival is possible because of a collective of Montreal entrepreneurs and Artisans in the Urban field”, for which we are grateful, he adds, “but we all know that Charlie Ahearn is the monarch of the Hip Hop Cinema genre and Kevin Fitzgerald is its boy-prince”.

Amongst this year’s sponsors, we note Burger King, Belle Gueule beer, CH Television, Montreal Mirror, 24 Heures, ICI Montreal and Influence magazine.