Hot Docs fave Thunder Soul gets major release

It took some time but Mark Landsman's brilliant Kashmere Stage Band documentary Thunder Soul is finally getting a major theatrical release on September 23, 2011. The genuinely heartwarming film about the one-off reunion of the formidable high school orchestra from Houston's Kashmere Gardens which won the coveted Audience Award at Hot Docs 2010 – despite negligible mainstream Toronto media coverage – appears to have greatly benefited from the support of co-producer Jamie Foxx who grew up in the Dallas suburb of Terrell, Texas. It's good news for film fans and Stones Throw Records who really got the whole ball rolling with the inclusion of a Kashmere Stage Band track on the Funky 16 Corners compilation and followed it up with the essential retrospective reissue Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974. Check out the trailer.


Thunder Soul trailer