HBO, in partnership with the Miami International Film Festival, produced and presented by Miami Dade College, will present a free, outdoor kick-off screening of the all-ages HBO Documentary Film The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical on the 7,000-square-foot projection wall within the New World Symphony’s newly built, Frank Gehry-designed campus in Miami Beach. The film will be projected three-stories-high onto the building’s façade from the City of Miami Beach’s Soundstage open park area, which can accommodate up to 1,000 guests seated in the grassy meadow in front of the building. Australian director Sarah McCarthy (Murderers on the Dance Floor for the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 and Black Widow Granny for the BBC) is scheduled to fly from London to attend the screening along with the film’s producer, Joe Walters.
The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical is a hopeful look at a band of tenacious and melodious India street children, recruited to perform a one-time-only concert with members of the city’s elite Bombay Chamber Orchestra. The youngsters rehearse the timeless classics from The Sound of Music (including Do, Re, Mi and My Favorite Things) and prepare to perform before a sold-out crowd of 1,000 at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, a place which is usually closed to the city’s lower classes. With so many hopes and dreams riding on this single performance, the stakes are high for all involved.
Who: Australian director Sarah McCarthy is scheduled to fly from London to attend the screening along with the film’s producer, Joe Walters, as well as Sara Bernstein, vice president of documentary programming for HBO.
When: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
7:00 p.m. Screening (there are various city parking garages close by)
Where: The screening will take place at:
New World Center, Exostage at Miami Beach SoundScape/Lincoln Park
Corner of Washington Avenue & 17th Street
Miami Beach, Florida