MUSIC PLAYS A BIG ROLE IN THE FILM. HOW DID IT COME TOGETHER?
We wanted to find a way of using music in Black Gold that could not only avoid African cliche soundtracks but also play on the juxtaposition between the two worlds that we see in Black Gold -the coffee drinkers/companies in the North versus the coffee farmers in the South. To achieve this, we involved a number of talented musicians over a long period of time, and working with them right from the beginning of the edit. We first started developing a series of tracks for the rough cut with Joe Henson and Kunja Chatterton where we searched for sounds and themes, and created a music style that avoided clich African music. After the rough cut, when the structure of the story and the scenes started to evolve, we were awarded a place on the Sundance Documentary Composers Lab. Set in the mountains of Utah, we took part in an intensive workshop to develop further musical ideas for Black Gold. It was here that we met Andreas Kapsalis (http://www.andreaskapsalis.com/) who subsequently went on to s
