{"id":9852,"date":"2008-03-29T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2021-01-31T04:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:50:32","slug":"gods-own-country-the-movie-the-mixtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/29\/gods-own-country-the-movie-the-mixtape\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#039;s Own Country (Nigeria) &#8211; Movie Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve read many comments on both Radiohead and Trent Reznor&#8217;s attempts to subvert the music industry distribution paradigm , and there&#8217;s no doubt that their actions (and those of countless others) have got the major labels scratching their heads in bewilderment. And it&#8217;s not just the music industry that&#8217;s dancing around a bevvy of possible futures &#8211; all media is in a profound state of change.<br \/>\nAnd if that all seems very grand, check <strong>God&#8217;s Own Country<\/strong> &#8211; a project that rewrites the movie distribution rules with a &#8216;pay what you can&#8217; download model, attached with a free audio mixtape featuring a genuinely African American playlist: L<strong>il Wayne, Dead Prez, Green Lantern, Akon <\/strong>and <strong>Dipset<\/strong> mix it with <strong>X-Plastaz <\/strong>(Tanzania), <strong>Lopango Ya Banka <\/strong>(Congo), <strong>Krukid<\/strong> (Uganda), <strong>Amkoullel<\/strong> (Mali), <strong>Eldee The Don<\/strong> (Nigeria) and more.<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s Own Country is the movie debut of Nigerian director Femi Agbayewa and tells the tale of a Nigerian immigrant finding that the bright lights of the U.S. of A. are not what they were cracked up to be. It&#8217;s been described as a slice of &#8220;Nollywood&#8221; film-making &#8211; a reference to a Nigerian film industry that&#8217;s been pushing out movies for around 40 years. God&#8217;s Own Country stands as a somewhat leftfield arrival from a fledgling player &#8211; a move that signals a bright and diverse future for the international film industry.<br \/>\nYou can find both the movie and mixtape download at <a title=\"gods own country\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gocmovie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gocmovie.com<\/a>, alongside a nascent community forum that hopes to encourage the dissemination of acapellas and beats for collaboration. Register to download both, or stream the mixtape direct from the home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve read many comments on both Radiohead and Trent Reznor&#8217;s attempts to subvert the music industry distribution paradigm , and there&#8217;s no doubt that their actions (and those of countless others) have got the major labels scratching their heads in bewilderment. And it&#8217;s not just the music industry that&#8217;s dancing around a bevvy of possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[483,661,795,445,813,829,896,1126,1163,1364,412],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-africa","tag-comores","tag-europe","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-film","tag-france","tag-hiphop","tag-moubaraka","tag-nigeria","tag-soprano","tag-video","post_format-video","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15812,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/15812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}