Melvyn is an African Don Quixote from the mixed-race community in South Africa. He has one passion: to make the Cape Carnival bigger than Rio. His mother, who taught him all the music, dies days before the parade. Some of his children who have escaped the ghetto hate Carnival and oppose Melvyn; others who are still gangsters love it.

Festivals and Awards

The Human Rights Award | Cape Town World Cinema Festival

Reviews

“Raeburn's film is a rollicking run-in with the Cape Minstrel Carnival in all its glorious complications" - Sunday Times (South Africa)

Credits

Production - Scorpion/FMC/RFO (France); SABC (South Africa)
Writer/Director: Michael Raeburn
Producer: Anne-Marie La Toison & Michael Raeburn
Camera: Michael Raeburn
Editor: Kako Kelber
Sound: Christine Ferrer

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