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Music by Prudence is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Roger Ross Williams released in USA on 1 april 2010

Music by Prudence (2010)

Music by Prudence
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Released in USA 1 april 2010
Length 33minutes
OriginUSA
Rating70% 3.5480353.5480353.5480353.5480353.548035

Music by Prudence is a 2010 short documentary film directed by Roger Ross Williams. It tells the uplifting story of the now 24-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, and follows her remarkable transcendence from a world of hatred and superstition into one of music, love, and possibilities.

Music by Prudence won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 82nd Academy Awards. The film premiered on HBO on May 12, 2010.

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Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman's struggle who, together with her band, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds and, in her own voice, conveys to the world that "disability does not mean inability."

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