MIXED TAPE TRILOGY Director Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

Mixtape Trilogy: Stories of the Power of Music explores one of the most intense and unique relationships between people who rarely meet: music artists and their fans. Folk-rock icons The Indigo Girls openly share their journey, which has powerfully influenced the life of their biggest fan. Composer and pianist Vijay Iyer examines issues of immigration and race through his music; his work touches the heart of Garnette, a “man of the streets” from Kingston, Jamaica. Rapper and activist Talib Kweli inspires and transforms the life of Mike, a “Hip Hop” architect from Detroit. The director unpacks the music, inviting the audience to fall into it. The art of listening unfolds and inspires us to listen to music and, perhaps, each other in new ways.

The film premiered at the 2022 Sonoma International Film Festival. It was an official selection at the 2022 Cleveland International Film Festival, 2022 Sarasota Film Festival, 2022 Bentonville Film Festival, 2022 Cinequest Film & VR Festival, 2022 Sound Unseen Film Festival, and 2022 Richmond International Film Festival, where it won the Artistic Vision Award.

The Sounds of Film is the nation's longest-running film and music themed radio show. For the past 30 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island, parts of Connecticut and streaming worldwide live on the internet. Previous interviewees include Laurie Anderson, Dionne Warwick, the Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, director Susan Lacy, William H. Macy, Connie Stevens, Eric B., Julie Andrews and Billy Joel.

Worldwide listeners of the SOUNDS OF FILM can tune into the internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.