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Genre: Documentary
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Starring: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Celia Cruz, B.b. King, Don King
Director: Jeffrey Levy-hinte
Producer: Jeffrey Levy-hinte, David Sonenberg, Leon Gast

Review
This verité documentary about the legendary music festival “Zaire ‘74,” depicts the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, and Celia Cruz. The film is crafted from the extensive “outtakes” that remained after making WHEN WE WERE KINGS, which chronicled the epic title fight between Mohammad Ali and George Foreman, but relegated the music festival to a small, supporting role. “Soul Power” finally provides today’s audience the opportunity to experience this historic musical event in all of its magnificent, filmed glory.
Several reliable sources are reporting that MJ bequeathed a massive music catalog to his three children Michael Joseph Jr., Paris Michael Katherine, and Prince Michael II, just weeks prior to his death.

The secret song catalogue could be worth at least $100 million to Jackson’s children.
A blockbuster formula: match Muhammad Ali vs. George Forman, then connect the boxers with the star power of James Brown, the Spinners, B.B. King, Bill Withers, the Crusaders, Bill Black, Miriam Makeba, and Celia Cruz.
What do you have? A classic soul knock-out punch of epic concert proportions.
Our performers provide the key ingredients for a spectacular 1974 promotion created to dazzle the African continent.

Partly inspired by South Africa’s music legend Hugh Masekela, a 3-night, 12-hour concert served as a backdrop for the Ali – Forman boxing match hyped as “The Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasa, Zaire.
The 1997 movie When We Were Kings documents the fight, with secondary emphasis on the music festival, known as “Zaire ‘74”.
Now comes Soul Power, a 2008/2009 production emphasizing the music using huge portions of the original concert footage not included in When We Were Kings.

In the days preceding the “Rumble in the Jungle”—the famed 1974 boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire—America’s biggest names in R&B assembled for a three-day music festival. The brainchild of South African musician Hugh Masekela and American record producer Stewart Levine, the concert featured beloved performers: James Brown and the Mighty JBs headlined, while Bill Withers, B.B. King, the Spinners and top African acts such as Miriam Makeba and Afrisa filled out the electrifying slate. Though most of the black American performers were visiting Africa for the first time, many felt they had returned home. After years spent rooted in the civil rights movement, the journey prompted them to explore roots of another sort, and their days leading up to the festival were spent as if in an alternative universe, where Black Power took on an entirely new reality and meaning. The festival and film were financed by a Liberian investment group that became hindered by legal disputes, and consequently the film footage remained in the can for more than two decades. Eventually, the disputes were settled and the footage was transformed into the 1996 Academy Award-winning film WHEN WE WERE KINGS. Unfortunately, the historical concert didn’t make the cut. The editor of KINGS, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, understood that the concert footage was worthy of a film unto itself and resurrected it from the editing-room floor. SOUL POWER is the dazzling result. With never-seen footage of the performances and new sections with Ali, the film plays like a glorious time capsule. SOUL POWER is a beautifully constructed lost object that creates more than mere nostalgia: It allows one to fully enter into the world of 1974 and captures an event so extraordinary that we dare not forget it.

Post screening discussion and performance featuring filmmaker Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and legendary funk / jazz trombonist Fred Wesley. Wesley will also perform in the Silver Plaza on 6/19 at 7:00 p.m. Be sure to catch the ‘Master Class: Dialogue on Directing’ with filmmaker Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Leon Gast

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