JESUS CAMP, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (The Boys of Baraka), follows Levi, Rachael, Tory and a number of other young children to Pastor Becky Fischer's Kids on Fire summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years-old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army. The film follows these children at camp as they hone their prophetic gifts and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.
Force Theory created an original score and a complete sound design for the film. The film was released Sept 15, 2006 by Magnolia Pictures.
FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.
At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson’s Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
Force theory created a full soundscape for Favela Rising including an original score and Sound Design.
Favela Rising was shortlisted for the 2005 Academy Awards in the Best Documentary category.
FORCE THEORY’S LIVE PERFORMANCE RUN was an experiment into making a theatrical, experimental performance set to electronic soul beats. Using motown inspired choreography, costume changes, invented instruments, experimental monologue interludes, assumed identities, slow motion sports, political tai-chi and homemade space suits, Force Theory pushed band performance to version 2.0.
After playing many shows in NYC (knitting Factory, Club Marquee, Pianos...) from 2003-2005, the band took a break to work on solo projects
BAR TALK asks, What are women REALLY saying when they lock eyes across a crowded bar? Find out why some women are too cool for words.
Director Cheryl Furjanic’s innovative pop-up subtitle film, which contains no dialogue, tries to read between the lines of attraction, dating and humor.
Bar Talk features a complete original score by Force theory posing as two British supergroups:
Dirty Thursday & Cold Hot Chocolate.
Planet B-Boy, directed by Benson Lee, depicts the global resurgence of breakdancing through the life of a dancer in Las Vegas looking for his big break, a Korean son who seeks his father’s approval and a twelve-year-old boy in France confronting his family’s racism. From the outskirts of Paris to the suburbs of Seoul, the film serves as a reminder of hip-hop's influence on different and diverse cultures.
Planet B-boy the documentary is scheduled to be completed late 07’. A feature film script based on the documentary is a work in progress.
Force Theory created the full Sound Design for the film.
From its unlikely opening on a money-laundering frog farm, Manda Bala displays a strikingly distinctive tone. Featuring a stylish score and articulate interviews with kidnappers, kidnap victims, and the people who profit off them, as well as the paranoid people whose lives they impact, it looks and sounds more like a stylized fiction film than a heavy political doc. However, it is never glib or trivial, and always inventive and haunting. It documents Brazilian reality without falling into patronizing clichés and reveals that corruption and kidnapping represent two sides of the same violent crime: the rich steal from the poor people of Brazil, while the poor steal back some of the rich people.
Director Jason Kohn shows the influence of his mentor Errol Morris but bravely carves out his own unique style. Manda Bala is an ingenious documentary in the vanguard of what will hopefully be a new wave of documentary filmmaking.
Force Theory collaborated with Embassy Productions and Guitarist Mike Gamble to create 4 covers and 3 original pieces for the film. Manda Bala will be released August 17th, 2007.
