Director/ Producer
Production: LA STEREO, KIDAM, ARTE FR
IT'S YOURS: HIP-HOP & THE INTERNET (2021) is a feature-length documentary that explores how Hip-Hop's innovative use of the Internet transformed the music industry.
Filmed over a decade, the film's premiered in Los Angeles as part of The Annenberg Space for Photography Contact High Film series in July 2019 under the title "IT'S YOURS (A Story of Hip-Hop & the Internet)". It made its world premiere at the London at the Doc N Roll Film Festival in 2019, its Paris debut at The Silencio in Paris, followed by its U.S. festival debut at the Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles in February 2020, and it has since been featured at In Edit, See the Sound, House of Vans, Bordeaux Music Ecran, Mayles Documentary Centre and festivals in Germany, Spain, the UK, France, Brazil, the Netherlands, Denmark, the U.S., and Italy.
In 2021, ARTE acquired and the film was adapted for broadcast in France , Germany, Italy, and Poland, in co-production with Kidam Films.
In 2024, it was picked up for global distribution by Under The Milky Way. Since 2025, it is available to watch on TUBI & Prime Video in addition to VOD platforms like APPLE TV and CANAL VOD.
WHERE TO WATCH: https://itsyourz.com
Narrator: Jack Davey from J* Davey for the International version (2023)
HIP-HOP & THE INTERNET Co-produced by Arte France & Kidam Films in 2021 for ARTE TV
It's Yours: A Story of Hip-Hop & the internet (2019) 76'
PAST SCREENINGS:
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION, ENDURANCE, MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTRE, HIP HOP CINEFEST, THE GATHERING SPOT, USC THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC , NEUEHOUSE, BARCELONA DISTRICT CULTURAL, SEE THE SOUND, DELICIOUS PIZZA, MUSIKFILM FESTIVALEN DFI, IN-EDIT BRAZIL, THE 14TH ANNUAL DAY OF BLACK DOCS, FESTIVAL IN EDIT, FESTIVAL ALTAVEU SANT BOI, NEDERLANDS, MONOPOL MUSIC FESTIVAL, FESTIVAL IN-EDIT 2020 - MUSICAL ECRAN, PIOCHE PROJECTS, BORDEAUX ROCK FESTIVAL MUSIC ECRAN, GREATER CLEVELAND URBAN FILM FESTIVAL , HOUSE OF VANS, PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL, DOC'N ROLL FILM FESTIVAL ,LE SILENCIO .THE MINT, THE ANNENBERG SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
2020: Official Selection PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL (PAFF), Los Angeles