Dancing towards a better world
This vivid and inspiring portrait of DJ and community radio organiser Malika Mahmoud is the first in a series profiling “change makers” in Copenhagen commissioned by Danish newspaper Politiken.
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Credits
View on- Agency Butter Agency/Copenhagen
- Production Company New Land
- Director Amara Abbas
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Credits
View on- Agency Butter Agency/Copenhagen
- Production Company New Land
- Director Amara Abbas
- Sound Supersonic/Copenhagen
- Executive Producer Sara Samsoe
- DP Joao de Botelho
- Production Designer Veronika Maria Bach
- Production Designer Thilde Emilie Ammitzboll Bogh
- Editor Nikolaus Kohler
- Colorist Joseph Bicknell
- Composer/Sound Design Raphael Ajuelos
- Online Adam Benjamin
- Creative Mark Allan Terkelsbol
- Producer Stefanie Munck
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Credits
powered by- Agency Butter Agency/Copenhagen
- Production Company New Land
- Director Amara Abbas
- Sound Supersonic/Copenhagen
- Executive Producer Sara Samsoe
- DP Joao de Botelho
- Production Designer Veronika Maria Bach
- Production Designer Thilde Emilie Ammitzboll Bogh
- Editor Nikolaus Kohler
- Colorist Joseph Bicknell
- Composer/Sound Design Raphael Ajuelos
- Online Adam Benjamin
- Creative Mark Allan Terkelsbol
- Producer Stefanie Munck
“Everything about me is mixed: my sound, my DNA…” In this superbly cool short film created by Butter Agency and directed by Amara Abbas through New Land, DJ Malika Mahmoud talks about how her ethnic heritage has been the driving force behind the sounds she creates.
Change Makers features tantalisingly brief samples of Malika's banging dance beats between much quieter passages. Footage of Malika and her fellow DJs joyfully dancing, overlaid by a classical soundtrack, is interspersed with domestic scenes lovingly recalled from the DJ’s childhood.
Throughout, Malika shares her thoughts on her experiences as a person of colour in a predominantly white culture and her hopes that through her music she might help to “change the world for the better.”
