Culture
A denunciation and a call to hope.
The documentary confronts the damage being done to music and other artistic activity while defending the idea that culture cannot be taken away from the people who create and share it.
A film by Alex Fisherman
Kids Used to Sing
Our music was murdered. Is yours safe?
Documentary · 2016
A warning from both sides of the Atlantic.
Time spent working in a Chicago music venue, followed by a journey through several American cities, exposed the contrast between their live scenes and the deteriorating situation in Spain.
The film grew from the need to understand the scale of that decline and to warn other communities before the same loss became irreversible.
Testimony
Voices that live through music.
Musicians and professionals from different communities discuss respect for artists, education, opportunities and the pressure placed on creative freedom.
The diagnosis
Spain faces the most critical landscape.
Other countries are not free from problems, but the film finds a particularly dark outlook in Spain and asks what can still be protected or rebuilt.
Trailer
Kids Used to Sing
Festival journey
Selections and recognition
The recovered server contains several versions of the film poster, showing how festival selections and awards were added between 2016 and 2017.
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