wocomoHUMANITY | From unknown singer to YouTube star - The story of YouTube singing sensation Princess Shaw @wocomoHUMANITY | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
It is the age of New Media, and people of all ages and kinds, all around the world are posting an endless stream of video clips online at any given moment. Every day, tens of thousands of web surfers cram their video notes into virtual bottles, toss them into the boundless ocean that is the internet, and pray that they are found. All they want is for someone to pick up their bottle and find the treasure hidden inside it.
This documentary won multiple awards, including:
-Best Documentary - Awards of the Israeli Film Academy (2016)
-Life Tales Award - Biografilm Festival (2016)
-Cinema Eye Honors Award - Cinema Eye Honors Awards (2017)
-Best Documentary in Music and Dance - Master of Art Film Festival (2017)
-Chopin Nose Award - Special Mention - Millennium Docs Against Gravity (2016)
-Audience Award - Sheffield International Documentary Festival (2016)
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Through an immersive direction, the documentary tells us a Cinderella-like fairy tale by placing in parallel two destinies that will intersect and change their lives. We follow the story of Samantha Montgomery, 38, living alone in one of New Orleans' toughest neighborhoods. By day she works as a nurse at a retirement house, und at night she transforms into Princess Shaw, belting out soulful originals and posting homemade a cappella clips on YouTube, usually reaching just a handful of viewers.But this incredible voice will be revealed to the world thanks to the Israeli musician Kutiman. Kutiman spent the past few years creating audiovisual symphonies entirely out of musical clips that people posted online from all over the world. The first project was published in 2014. It immediately went viral and Time Magazine chose the project as one of the fifty top innovations of the year. Kutiman creates an elaborate musical production out of her songs, complementing an original piece with various other musical offerings posted by amateur musicians around the world.The camera follows her as she goes about her life, both before and after the release of the musical project. In order to maintain the element of surprise, the protagonists are filmed at the starting point, knowing only that they are participating in a documentary about songwriters online. During the shoot, both the project and the film’s objective will be revealed. Samantha - The Princess - got only one day after the release of the single online an offer from an Australian record company.
The documentary examines loneliness, anonymity and connectivity in the Internet age, where showbiz dreams remain but a mouse-click away for even the most hardscrabble striver. In this age of viral video, where a stranger's fate can change in a click for better or worse, Princess Shaw's story is heartwarming. A touching film that still encourages us to believe in miracles and tales.
Original title - Presenting Princess Shaw
A film by Ido Haar
Israel, 2016
© 2016, Licensed by First Hand Films
#documentary #princessshaw #kutiman #viral #music
It is the age of New Media, and people of all ages and kinds, all around the world are posting an endless stream of video clips online at any given moment. Every day, tens of thousands of web surfers cram their video notes into virtual bottles, toss them into the boundless ocean that is the internet, and pray that they are found. All they want is for someone to pick up their bottle and find the treasure hidden inside it.
This documentary won multiple awards, including:
-Best Documentary - Awards of the Israeli Film Academy (2016)
-Life Tales Award - Biografilm Festival (2016)
-Cinema Eye Honors Award - Cinema Eye Honors Awards (2017)
-Best Documentary in Music and Dance - Master of Art Film Festival (2017)
-Chopin Nose Award - Special Mention - Millennium Docs Against Gravity (2016)
-Audience Award - Sheffield International Documentary Festival (2016)
Subscribe to the channel: goo.gl/5Sp36B
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/wocomo
Through an immersive direction, the documentary tells us a Cinderella-like fairy tale by placing in parallel two destinies that will intersect and change their lives. We follow the story of Samantha Montgomery, 38, living alone in one of New Orleans' toughest neighborhoods. By day she works as a nurse at a retirement house, und at night she transforms into Princess Shaw, belting out soulful originals and posting homemade a cappella clips on YouTube, usually reaching just a handful of viewers.But this incredible voice will be revealed to the world thanks to the Israeli musician Kutiman. Kutiman spent the past few years creating audiovisual symphonies entirely out of musical clips that people posted online from all over the world. The first project was published in 2014. It immediately went viral and Time Magazine chose the project as one of the fifty top innovations of the year. Kutiman creates an elaborate musical production out of her songs, complementing an original piece with various other musical offerings posted by amateur musicians around the world.The camera follows her as she goes about her life, both before and after the release of the musical project. In order to maintain the element of surprise, the protagonists are filmed at the starting point, knowing only that they are participating in a documentary about songwriters online. During the shoot, both the project and the film’s objective will be revealed. Samantha - The Princess - got only one day after the release of the single online an offer from an Australian record company.
The documentary examines loneliness, anonymity and connectivity in the Internet age, where showbiz dreams remain but a mouse-click away for even the most hardscrabble striver. In this age of viral video, where a stranger's fate can change in a click for better or worse, Princess Shaw's story is heartwarming. A touching film that still encourages us to believe in miracles and tales.
Original title - Presenting Princess Shaw
A film by Ido Haar
Israel, 2016
© 2016, Licensed by First Hand Films
#documentary #princessshaw #kutiman #viral #music
