Country: US
Run Time: 51 minutes
2002

'Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia may be too gritty to ever make it to MTV, but it shows with jolting immediacy how hip-hop is as vital and relevant to Colombia's street culture as it was to urban African-Americans before it was co-opted by the mass media and mainstream artists'.

-Lael Loewenstein, Variety magazine

'If there's one film you see this week make it 'Resistencia: Hip Hop in Colombia'. -New Zealand Herald

'Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia' is an eye-opening experience. It portrays strong realities and powerful images of poverty and includes footage of children, teenagers, and adults faced with struggles that many people do not know exist.' - Mosaico.com

'Out of these oppressive slums a gritty untapped hip-hop culture is burgeoning, in a scene that makes America's prefabbed pussies look about as un-real as it gets.' -Montreal Mirror

Resistencia has screened at over 30 international film festivals:London Latin American, Portobello, Leeds, Cork, Exground, Nord-Sud Geneva, Visions du Reel Nyon, Gijon, Albacete, Lleida, Malaga, Sonar Barcelona, Docupolis Barcelona, Black Soil Rotterdam, New Zealand Human Rights; Amnesty International, World Social Forum, Bogota, Muestra de Documentales Colombia, Cinememoria Quito, Miami, Chicago Latino, Cine Las Americas, IFP Los Angeles, San Francisco Hip-Hop, Festivalissimo Montreal, Toronto Latino, Cambridge MA Latino, Dallas Vistas, African Diaspora NYC, Oakland, Brooklyn Underground, Hip-Hop Odyssey, and HBO Urban World.

Resistencia won Best Music Film at the Portobello Film Festival, Best Foreign Film at the HBO Urban World Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize at the Bogota International Film Festival, and received an Honorary Mention as Best Documentary at the Oakland Film Festival.Resistencia has been licensed for broadcast to SVT Sweden, SBS Australia, YLE Finland, and Maori TV New Zealand.
Plot In America, hip-hop music may trumpet the virtues of wealth, fame, and power, but in South America, it's the voice of the disenfranchised, a genre of music embraced by the underclass. Tom Feiling's documentary Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia profiles the rise of hip-hop in the slums of Colombia, where the music was first introduced to the culture in the 1980s by transients who would travel to the U.S. and return with bootleg cassettes. Now, it's a thriving subculture, featuring such outspoken artists as Poetas de la Oscuridad and Asilo 38. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Release Year: