HASIZZLE

(Official Selection: SXSW 2014)

New American Noise. New Orleans. Bounce Music.

Director: Abteen Bagheri
Executive Producers: Tash Tan & Brooke DeVard Smith
Producer: Chris Black
Associate Producer: Lee Groombridge
Cinematographer: Isaac Bauman
Editor: Leila Sarraf @ Trim Editing
Sound Mix: Martin Leitner @ Wave Studios
Color Correction: Dave Ludlam @ Framestore
Music Licensing: Marcus Brooke-Smith & Dom Bastyra @ Platinum Rye

Music:
Nicky Da B - 'Express Yourself' / 'Just a lil Nasty' / 'Beating Down Yo Block'
Sissy Nobby - 'Freestyle'
Big Freedia - 'Booty Whop Marc Garvy'

Special Thanks:
Arthur Roger
Big Freedia
Ian Wood
Katey Red
Magnolia Rhome
Mannie Fresh
Nicole
Roosevelt Tyler
Rusty Lazer
Sissy Nobby
Tori Sims
Amber Clayton and Kayt Hall @ Wave Studios
Andy McLintock @ Framestore
Jemma Daniel @ Trim Editing

RIP Nicky Da B - Abteen Bagheri

Ha Sizzle regularly performs with Katey Red and Big Freedia in his native New Orleans, delivering the same sexual energy to the stage. He's also one of the few to leave his native town, bringing bounce to Houston, TX. Perhaps a subgenre will be born? - See more at: http://www.fuse.tv/2014/05/bounce-artists-you-need-to-know#5 - Maria Sherman (Fuse)

From the eponymous star of the most popular reality show in Fuse TV’s history, this no-holds-barred memoir tells the story of a gay, self-proclaimed mama’s boy who exploded onto the formerly underground Bounce music scene—a hip-hop subgenre—and found acceptance, healing, self-expression, and stardom!

As the “undisputed ambassador” of the energetic, New Orleans-based Bounce movement, Big Freedia isn’t afraid to twerk, wiggle, and shake her way to self-confidence, and is encouraging her fans to do the same. In her engrossing memoir, Big Freedia tells the inside story of her path to fame, the peaks and valleys of her personal life, and the liberation that Bounce music brings to herself and every one of her fans who is searching for freedom.

Big Freedia immediately pulls us into the relationship between her personal life and her career as an artist; being a “twerking sissy” is not just a job, she says, but a salvation. A place to find solace. To escape from the battles she faced growing up in the worst neighborhood in New Orleans. To deal with losing loved ones to the violence on the streets, drug overdoses, and jail. To survive hurricane Katrina by living on her roof for two days with three adults and a child. To grapple with the difficulties and celebrate the joys of living.

In this eye-opening memoir that bursts with energy, you’ll learn the history of the Bounce movement and meet all of the colorful characters that pepper its music scene. With her own unique voice and unabashed enthusiasm, Big Freedia tells how she arrived at this defining moment in music, and how Bounce ultimately has allowed her to become her own version of diva, one booty-pop at a time. - Big Freedia Nicole Balin