‘South Coast’ is Fractured Films and Director Will Jewell’s debut feature. It all came about by accident, but that’s another story. Almost 5 years in the making, it recently won ‘Best Documentary’ in the International Film Makers’ Festival and has screened in film festivals from New York, Helsinki and Australia to Israel, Holland and, of course, the UK. The film is packed full of engaging characters and paints a quintessentially British, cheeky postcard take on hip hop a million miles from  the MTV images of ghetto superstars.

Bursting with banging tunes, illuminating and often hilarious interviews, stunning breaking, graffiti pieces and live performances, the film charts the arrival of hip hop in the UK in the 1980s, the formation of home-grown Britcore crews and their success in Europe but invisibility in the UK, the dark days of rave when UK hip hop was a pariah, up to recent years where it has found a distinct English accent and bounded out of the U.S. shadow. 

Featuring all 4 elements of hip hop, the film stars characters ranging from MCs Buzz, UK Beatbox champ Beardyman, Dr Syntax, Koaste, Stig of The Dump and old-skool heroes Deliverance, to DJs/producers ranging from pioneer Norman Cook, DMC champ JFB to Evil Ed, 184 and Blackgrass.  There’s amazing breaking action from Battlejam featuring JP, The Floor Crusaders and Dancing Bears amongst others, whilst graf masterpieces and bolt-cutter action is served up by a whole host of writers including the Rarekind Fam, Odisy, Req1 and Taco.

Loads of people helped get this film made. Way too many to thank them all here, but thanks to…

ALL THE ARTISTS. No artists, No film, as we’d have had nothing to point our cameras at and  wouldn’t have embarked on this long, strange journey. Big up to everyone featured and thanks for letting us use your tracks, footage and beats.

Special thanks to Kev, Dom, Cal, Kieron, Tim, Alice, Charlie, Michele, Sri, Josh, Indy, Ryan, Martyn, Lucy, Dave, 184, Kev Pick, Emily, Stevie, Carolyn, Lily, Big Logger T, Jack, Buzz, Paul, Tom Simpson, Rob Luis, Dan, Paul, Remark, Dee Jay, Chris, Norm, Skint, Rarekind, Brighton hip hop festival, Rising Styles, Graffotism, Slip Jam B, Hip Hop Connection, Battlejam, Battleground, Thug Mansions, Zebra Traffic, Puma Strutt, Knowledge of Self, Animal Monday.

Thanks to Big Dave for being the bigger man. Dedicated to Eddie Rayner