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Diverse and Edgy Musicians Perform, Dance and Reveal on the ‘Indie Rooftop’ (TV Series Review)
Indie Rooftop
Rating: 7/10
Director: Jasmine Allen Tillman
Writer: Jasmine Allen Tillman
Style: Music Documentary
Time: About 20 minutes, 7 episodes
Review by Mike Szymanski
From Baltimore to Nigeria, Manhattan to Virginia, documentary filmmaker Jasmine Allen Tillman found the most diverse and colorful critically-acclaimed indie musicians who were filmed in Chicago.
She had them come up to a rooftop studio and play their music and talk about themselves.
There couldn’t be a more eclectic crowd among the musicians she picked: from a flamenco pop singer to a hip hop artist, to a Grammy-nominated songwriter and a Native American sings folk music in his native tongue.
Director Jasmine is a new parent who was in her third trimester with her second child while filming this documentary.
She says, “I witnessed the power music had to comfort my son and bring him joy and that’s what I wanted to share.”
Inspired by documentaries such as “Hype” and “Gimme Shelter” and most notably the Beatles rooftop performance, Jasmine…