"Soul Power"
Presented in conjunction with the “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, Zaire ‘74 was a three-day music fest in Kinshasa that was organized by South African musician Hugh Masekela and American record producer Stewart Levine. It featured performances by James Brown, B.B. King and Bill Withers, among others. While the progressive promoters of Zaire ‘74 hired a talented team of documentary filmmakers to capture everything, the project ran into trouble when the Liberian investment group that financed the festival ran into some serious legal challenges.
This remarkable footage would sit untouched and unedited until 1996 when the rights were settled in order to help facilitate the completion of “When We Were Kings”, an Academy Award-winning documentary centering on that very same Ali/Foreman match that took place beside the Zaire ‘74 music festival. “When We Were Kings” editor Jeffrey Levy-Hinte made it his personal mission to see the long awaited Zaire ‘74 project through to the end. The result is the amazing documentary called “Soul Power”. Rated PG-13. French.
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