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April 24: Bela Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart Opens at IFC Center

Throw Down Your Heart, featuring Bela Fleck and directed by Sascha Paladino opens this Friday, April 24 at the IFC Center in NYC. So often we see films about what is “wrong” in Africa. Throw Down Your Heart offers viewers a wonderfully positive experience, celebrating our common humanity through the universal language of music.

Check out the website here: http://www.throwdownyourheart.com
Check out the trailer here: http://www.argotpictures.com/throw-down-your-heart.html

“Not all stories coming from Africa have to tell of bloodshed and displacement, and Sascha Paladino’s Throw Down Your Heart shows how the power of music can unite disparate cultures.” —Tiny Mix Tapes By David Harris June, 2008

Throw Down Your Heart follows the multiple Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the early roots of the banjo. Bela’s boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali. Using his banjo, Bela transcends barriers of language and culture, finding common ground and forging connections with musicians from very different backgrounds.

Throw Down Your Heart
Starts Fri! 12:30, 2:40*, 4:50, 7:20*, 9:45pm*
*Béla Fleck & Sascha Paladino in person Fri-Sat at 7:20 & 9:45, Sun at 2:40!
Buy tickets here:
http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=9598&rdate=4%2F24%2F2009

Starts	April 24 2009
Ends / Deadline	April 30 2009
Homepage	http://www.argotpictures.com/throw-down-your-heart.html
Contact	lisa.smithline@gmail.com
Issues	Family & Society, International, Africa