Sounds Like a Revolution is pro-active and an energizing documentary about a new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is an important and powerful tool in the ongoing struggle for social change. From the Dixie Chicks to Paris, Michael Franti and Anti-Flag, artists across the musical spectrum discuss their motivations and struggles in a post-9/11 environment when dissent was silenced and media outlets either ignored them or forced them into self-censorship before their material was released. Now with the decade gone, the Internet and Obama bring new hope.....

With themes that explore the role of artists in society, freedom of expression and democratic participation, Sounds Like a Revolution tells a universal story of how we are all politicized by the increasingly dangerous world in which we live, and begs the question: Will you stand up for truth or turn and walk away?

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

“I first began thinking about this project in March 2003 before the invasion of Iraq as millions marched in streets around the world, the largest pre-war demonstrations ever recorded. My mother and I were talking about the protest movements of the 1960’s and the songs that inspired her generation. She boldly stated that there was no protest music anymore despite the growing need today.

I couldn’t accept this statement. To surrender like that would be to accept that generations since the counter-culture had grown apathetic and unconcerned with the state of the world. The demonstrations of millions in villages, towns, and cities around the world at that very moment meant this simply was not true.

And so I set out on a very personal quest to not only find the Dylans, the Lennons and Woody Guthries of my generation but to find out why their voices did not sing loud enough for people like my mother to hear.”

- Summer Love

2010 Los Angeles Movie Awards, USA
Won Honourable Mention for Feature Documentary

2010 Woodstock Film Festival, USA

2010 Raindance Film Festival, UK

2010 Festival of Liberties, Belgium

2010 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan

2010 NXNE Film Festival, Canada

2010 Film North - Huntsville International Film Festival, USA

2010 Brantford Film Festival, USA

2010 Tucson Film and Music Festival, USA

2010 Duke City DocFest, USA

"...The film is educational, entertaining, and full of moments that will leave music fans in awe (hearing Crosby talk about sitting beside Neil Young as he wrote "Ohio", his song about the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, is so powerful that it gave me goosebumps)."

Brian McKechnie, CITYNEWS.CA

"...The film is at its best when it delineates how the noose gradually tightened on politically charged music at major labels. The doc takes the viewer on a tour of relevant events, from Ice-T’s Cop Killer controversy at Warner Music in 1992 to the Dixie Chicks’ backlash during the lead-up to the Iraq War."
Greig Dymond, CBC.CA

"Full of concert and political action footage, the doc has terrific energy. But it’s the interviews with the articulate musicians that are most inspiring."
Susan G. Cole, NOW MAGAZINE

"...A documentary that both salutes the new age of protest music and investigates why it isn’t better known. Love and co-director Jane Michener spent five years talking to artists from Pete Seeger to Michael Franti, and they found a new world where protest is in the air, but not on the airwaves."
Jay Stone, CANADA.COM

"If a lot of people see this, it could end up an important film. There’s no doubt it’ll be an underground hit — like the music it covers — but if this can reach a major doc’s audience, a lot more artists will end up making a lot more music that a lot more people will hear."
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