Enongo 08/26 Blu-ray (Rental)

Enongo (aka Sammus) navigates music, academia and identity in this documentary that examines her life as a rapper, scholar, teacher and nerd. What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell PhD candidate, and a proud nerd all at once? Director Kevin Schreck follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time career alongside academic life. Through her unique afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo/Sammus tackles mental health, identity, race and feminism while cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike. The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team - the first in the history of feature filmmaking - bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: her Ithaca upbringing, years teaching in Houston, return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together. Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, Enongo is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who artist who consistently thinks outside boxes and dances across lines. Bonus Materials Full-length audio commentary track by director Kevin Schreck, composer EmmoLei Sankofa, and animators Q&A at the Hip Hop Film Festival with subject Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, director Kevin Schreck, and animators Shammah McVay & Anaiyah Tatiana Animation-themed Q&A at the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and animator Anaiyah Tatiana Music-themed Q&A at the Denton Black Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and composer EmmoLei Sankofa Storyboard to Final Animation comparisons Cast & Crew Actors: Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo as self Lanre Akinsiku as self Zöe Brecher as self Adrienne Hailey as self N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba as self Alejandro Tello as self Director: Kevin Schreck Producer: Kevin Schreck