CNN World Beat: ISMAEL LO

Artist Profile

Globally Broadcast on CNN International • Nationally Broadcast on CNN

ROBBIE LEPPZER - Producer, Interviewer, Videographer, Sound Recordist
(Interview footage only); and Editor

Running Time: 5:22

        A portrait of Senegalese singer, Ismael Lo, known as the “Bob Dylan of Senegal.”  Produced for World Beat, a weekly half-hour newsmagazine program devoted to world music, which was globally broadcast on CNN International, and nationally broadcast on CNN from 1999 - 2001.

About The Filmmaker

        Robbie Leppzer is an award-winning independent documentary director, producer, videographer, editor, and sound recordist, with thirty years experience producing over thirty independent film, video, and public radio documentaries for national and international distribution. His critically acclaimed works about contemporary social issues and multicultural themes have been broadcast globally by CNN International and broadcast nationally in the United States and Canada by PBS, CNN, Cinemax, Sundance Channel, HDNet, Black Entertainment Television, The Learning Channel, Link TV, Free Speech TV, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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