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Series/Themes: Featured, Music on Film, Spotlight Screenings

Genre: Documentaries

Film Year: 2018

Locations: USA

Film Length: 95 min.

Languages: English, Tamil

Subtitles: Partially Subtitled

Director: Steve Loveridge

Featuring: M.I.A.

Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge’s MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka’s armed Tamil resistance, she hid from  the government in the face of a vicious and bloody civil war. When her family fled to the UK, she became Maya, a precocious and creative immigrant teenager in London. Finally, the world  met her as M.I.A. when she emerged on the global stage, having created a mashup, cut and paste  identity that pulled from every corner of her journey along the way; a sonic sketchbook that blended Tamil politics, art school punk, hip hop beats and the unwavering, ultra confident voice of a burgeoning multicultural youth.