The documentary 'Southside' directed by Joven Roy will be released on the official YouTube channel of Kappa today at 5 pm. This is the first documentary produced by Kappa Studio.
'Southside' talks about Kerala's rising hip hop culture also features upcoming hip hop artistes from the God’s own country. It also discusses the impact of hip hop on people and the potential of this art.
Southside features the popular hip-hop artistes including DJ Sekhar, MC Couper, Street Academics, Dabzee, Rap Kid, Parimal Shais, Pakarcha Vyadhi, Hanumankind, Marthyan and Fejo.
Director Joven Roy hails from Kochi. Joven has been working as a visual designer on the payment app ‘Cred’ and has made several documentaries and short films.
'Hip hop has become very popular in Kerala recently. A lot of artistes are coming into this field and many good tracks are coming up. When I learned more about this field, I came up with the idea of documenting the same. It has to be reached out to more people,' Joven said.
The crew of this documentary:
- Director - Joven Roy
- Producer - Kappa Studios
- DOP - Jacob Reji
- Editor - Riaz Hassan
- Music - Parimal Shais
- Research - Devika AK
- Associate Director - Alka Saj Susan
- 2nd DOP - Abhinav Pradip
- DI - Riaz Hassan
- Associate Camera - Kishan Anil Kumar, Anandhu Vinod, Nandesh Nalin
- Assistant Director - Adwaith K
- Designs - Indran
- Subtitles - Shiyona
- Audio Editor - Vishnu KV