Screening and conversation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the hip-hop movement
Director Michael Rapaport and executive producer Niraj Bhatia will be the featured guests at a DIFF screening of the film, BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, and in-person conversation about the powerful impact of hip-hop for the past 50 years.
The event will be at Angelika Film Center Dallas at 7 PM on Thursday, November 16, 2023. Angelika Film Center Dallas is located at 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane #230, Dallas 75204.
“We are excited for Dallas to have the chance to hear Michael Rapaport and Niraj Bhatia talk about their 2011 film during the year that marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop,” said James Faust, DIFF Artistic Director, who will moderate the panel discussion.
Faust explained that the panel will revolve around the emergence and evolution of the hip-hop movement. With BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST serving as a catalyst, Rapaport and Bhatia will examine ATCQ and hip-hop’s impact as a whole and how it can continue to shape the present generation.
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST was winner of the 2011 Los
Angeles Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, the 2011 São Paulo International
Film Festival Audience Award for Best Foreign Documentary, the 2012 PGA Awards for Outstanding
Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures, the 2012 Black Reel Awards for Best Documentary, and was a nominee in the 2012 Grammy Awards for Best Long Form Music Video and the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.
Rapaport, who directed the film, is also known as a comedian and actor with more than 100 appearances in film and television, including recent roles in “Only Murders in the Building”, “Life and Beth” and “Atypical”.
Bhatia, who was executive producer, is president of Om Films. He recently joined Dev Patel and Mindy Kaling as an executive producer of the documentary, “To Kill A Tiger”. He also executive produced the THE STRANGER (2022), WILD INDIAN (2021), SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) and THE BALLAD OF
LEFTY BROWN (2017), among other films.
The event is presented by The Niraj Bhatia Foundation and Om Films, with special thanks to Virgin
Hotels Dallas and Angelika Film Center Dallas.
Tickets are $20 and on sale at https://diffpresents.eventive.org/schedule/64faca99a24f30009dcfcdcb.
Proceeds will benefit DIFF | Dallas Film Society, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
