An engrossing documentary portrait of an an often overlooked figure of immense cultural influence, Leonard Percival ‘Gong’ Howell, a Jamaican man born at the turn of the Twentieth Century who formed Pinnacle, the first Rastafarian community in 1939. After travelling the world as a sailor and encountering radical ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism to Gandhi, Marcus Garvey and psychoanalysis, he created his own dynamic philosophy, which came to define his country’s independent spirit. Featuring testimony from his followers across Jamaica and some of the amazing devotional Rastafarian music that gave rise to reggae and ska.
- Countries
- France
- Director:
- Hélène Lee
- Running Time:
- 86 mins
- Subtitles:
- Yes
- Year:
- 2010
- Showing:
- This is a past event.
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