Thu Dec 21 '23 Announcement
4 months ago
– Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:51:58 AM
Hey, folks!
We have some very exciting news: after over 4.5 years of hard work, our character animation sequences are finally completed!!
Check out a sample of one of these sequences here. This portion of the documentary was storyboarded, designed, and animated by the incredibly talented Leah Coleman, and featuring a brilliant musical score by EmmoLei Sankofa:
https://vimeo.com/896905109
Password: backersonly
Thank you to character animators Christa Carr, Leah Coleman, Jessica Honore, Brooklyn Lee, Shammah McVay, Ruby Myles, Ariel Paxton, and Anaiyah Tatiana, and our mentor, Dan Haskett, for their incredible work and creativity.
Learn more about our team here:
https://www.enongomovie.com/team
With this milestone achieved, we just have a few more steps to completing this documentary:
• End credits animation – January 2024
• Film & edit last live-action sequences of documentary – TBD
• Post-production (final music, sound mix, color grade) – TBD
Once we have the last live-action portions of Enongo's journey filmed and edited, and we will have a good idea of when final post-production steps can be made -- bringing us even closer to finally sharing this film with you all!
Thank you for your amazing continued support, everyone! More exciting news to come...!
Sun Jun 25 '23 Announcement
10 months ago
– Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 10:04:04 AM
Hello, everyone!
First off: for those of you in New York, Sammus has a show coming up in August!:
? We’re excited to announce that there will be a musical performance by the amazing @sammusmusic at our #BlackFeminismLivesSummit, a 2-Day Summit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Black Feminist Organization!
? Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (SAMMUS) @sammusmusic (she/her) is a Black feminist rapper, beatmaker, and scholar from Ithaca, NY, which is located on the traditional lands of the Cayuga Nation. Her family roots lie in Côte D'Ivoire and the Congo. She received her PhD in science and technology studies (STS) from Cornell University and is currently the David S. Josephson assistant professor in music at Brown University, located within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe.
She is also affiliate faculty at the Brown Arts Institute, a member of Brown’s STS steering committee, the Director of Audio at Glow Up Games, and an active member of The Keepers Hip Hop Collective (@followthekeepers).
Her current research explorations include projects about the evolution of her revision praxis as a songwriter, the discourse surrounding rap performance and AI, and the emergence of hip hop artists who draw heavily on video game aesthetics to shape their work.
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Sammus performs on Sunday, August 13th, 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM, at the People's Forum.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-feminism-lives-summit-tickets-648464012317
Masks are required for everyone's safety!
We also have new members of the Enongo team to help make this film into a reality. Introducing our newest executive producer, Sarah Timberlake Taylor! Sarah has worked with director Kevin Schreck since 2010, serving as line producer and sound recordist on the UK shoots for their first feature-length documentary, Persistence of Vision (2012). She subsequently worked on the editorial team for Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen (2018).
We are also honored to announce our newest (and tenth) animator joining the Enongo crew, Lindsay Campbell!
Lindsay Campbell is an Australia-based animation student. She’s working on the credits of Enongo, and this is her first time animating for film.
"I was honoured to be asked to contribute to this project. I was excited to be working alongside a number of Black artists, both on the screen and behind the scenes."
– Lindsay Campbell
Principal character animation sequences for Enongo have finished! While we wait to complete filming the documentary's final live-action sequences with our protagonist, the animation team have pivoted to working on the movie's end credits. Lindsay has brought an especially beautiful visual sensibility to the project, carefully researching traditional art motifs from Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, the Congo, and other parts of West Africa, embracing the story of the diaspora and the cultural heritages of the documentary's subjects. See a few samples of her dazzling concept art down below!
Our crowdfunding campaign is officially closed, but we will continue to give you production and post-production updates from Indiegogo. Follow us at these links, too, so you don't miss a thing!:
Official Website: www.EnongoMovie.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/EnongoMovie
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/EnongoMovie
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/EnongoMovie
#EnongoMovie
@EnongoMovie
Thank you for your amazing continued support, everyone! More exciting news to come...!
Sun Mar 20 '22 Announcement
about 2 years ago
– Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 08:28:34 AM
Hello, everyone!
March 20th is a special day: It's both the Boreal Spring Equinox, AND the birthday of our legendary Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo!!
Show her some love by showing up to her first shows in two years! Sammus is returning to Winooski, Vermont, and then touring with the great Mega Ran in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and San Diego, then wrapping up with a set in Keene, New Hampshire, all this May! Get your tickets here: https://sammusmusic.com/shows-tour-dates/
Can't make it to the shows or just want more of Sammus even sooner? She will be in discussion with Virtual—Collectors, Selectors, KEEPERS, and MCs: Black Feminist Sonic World-Making on April 24th. Register for the event here: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csus/event/31457/
Enongo animation art by Ruby Myles.
Additionally, animation is 95% completed!! Furthermore, with the world opening up, we're hoping to resume live-action documentary filming very soon. More on that in due time...!
More updates soon, but in the meantime, help keep this project alive by telling your friends and support us online!:
Official Website: www.EnongoMovie.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/EnongoMovie
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/EnongoMovie
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/EnongoMovie
#EnongoMovie
@EnongoMovie
Thank you for your amazing continued support, everyone! Let's make a movie...!
Sun Apr 18 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 02:35:31 PM
Still from unreleased footage from Enongo
Hey, everyone!
Happy Spring (to those of you in the Northern Hemisphere)! And it's definitely feeling like a happy one, because...
Animation art by Ariel Paxton
HALF OF ALL ANIMATION SEQUENCES FOR ENONGO ARE NOW 100% COMPLETED!! Additionally, the remaining sequences are all at least 75% finished! This means that if we can keep the funds coming in and work going smoothly, ALL animation will be completed in just a few months, giving us plenty of time to finish filming in the near future!
Animation art by Anaiyah Tatiana
This has only been possible because of your outstanding support, everyone. Thank you for your amazing support, everyone! More updates soon, but in the meantime, help keep this project alive by telling your friends and support us online!:
Official Website: www.EnongoMovie.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/EnongoMovie
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/EnongoMovie
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/EnongoMovie
#EnongoMovie
@EnongoMovie
Keep up the amazing work, everyone! Let's make a movie...!
P.S. Remember to keep staying safe (get vaccinated, wash your hands, wear your mask, etc.). We're almost out of this if we all do our part!
Tue Sep 29 '20 Announcement
over 3 years ago
– Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:04:33 PM
Hey, everyone!
Very exciting news: acclaimed and talented animator, illustrator, and motion graphics artist Patricia Battles has joined the Enongo team! She will be contributing her skills and artistry to a dynamic and beautiful end credits sequence for our documentary.
Inspired by a myriad of art styles from the Disney animation renaissance of the 1990s and retro video games including Tomb Raider and Sonic the Hedgehog to graffiti art and Lisa Frank aesthetics, Patricia has a phenomenal sense of color, design, and motion permeating all of her art. She studied at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York CIty and later transferred to The University of the Arts in Philadelphia on a Presidential Scholarship majoring in animation, and has since become a verified artist on Giphy.
"Being a part of the Enongo team feels too surreal: like being drafted into the NBA All Star League guided by 2 of the most amazing coaches on the planet (Dan Haskett & Kevin Schreck) with the MVP being Sammus! Being able to collaborate with a super talented crew of black women animators that I've gotten to know and admire feels very comforting; a sisterhood I never thought I would experience during my lifetime. With the current political climate, the BLM movement making a huge resurgence & the global pandemic affecting everyone's life in 2020, I'm extremely thankful and grateful to share with the crew and the world the very thing that has motivated me at a tender age and has been a constant source of therapy to get through hard times: creating art from the soul <3"
– Patricia Battles
Welcome aboard, Patricia! We're honored to have you on the team.
More of Patricia's outstanding portfolio at the following links:
Official website: https://www.patriciabattles.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patriciabattles/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/patriciabattles
Speaking of the MPV Enongo/Sammus, you can see her chat live with Indiegogo to learn more about TheKeepers project, which she has co-founded with fellow MC, Akua Naru –– this Friday, October 2nd, 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET on Instagram! More info on TheKeepers Project below:
"Support @FollowTheKeepers TODAY as we raise the first $50k of a $100k+ goal on @indiegogo to build the FIRST digital archive that visually-maps and documents five decades of womxn and girls in hip hop. Through a custom-designed geospatial map, transcribed interviews with womxn artists and innovators, and an extensive database of record and chart-data on womxn’s recorded works, theKEEPER Digital Archive will excavate a vast world of unearthed hip hop artistry through the eyes and ears of the womxn and girls who BUILT THE CULTURE. Period.
Will you show up for womxn and girls in Hip Hop? Start by getting them to their first milestone of $50k and pick up some perks in the process!”
Links:
https://igg.me/at/thekeeperarchive
followthekeepers.com
Our crowdsourcing campaign is still up and running! Thank you for your amazing support, everyone! More updates soon, but in the meantime, help keep this project alive by telling your friends and support us online!:
Official Website: www.EnongoMovie.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/EnongoMovie
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/EnongoMovie
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/EnongoMovie
#EnongoMovie
@EnongoMovie
Until next update, let's make a movie...!
