IT'S YOURS: HIP-HOP & THE INTERNET is an indie feature-length documentary by Marguerite de Bourgoing that explores how Hip-Hop's innovative use of the Internet transformed the music industry in the U.S.
Filmed over a decade, the film made its world premiere in London at the Doc N Roll Film Festival in 2019 under the title "IT'S YOURS (A Story of Hip-Hop & the Internet)."
Its U.S. debut followed at the Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2020, and it has since been featured in international festivals, including In Edit and See the Sound in Denmark. Screenings have taken place in Germany, Spain, the UK, France, Brazil, the Netherlands, the U.S., and Italy.
In 2021, ARTE France acquired and updated the film in co-production with Kidam Films, for broadcast in France , Germany, Italy, and Poland. In 2024, it was picked up for global distribution by Under The Milky Way.
CREDITS
Director/Producer/ Writer: Marguerite de Bourgoing
USA Voice Over: Jack Davey French Voice Over: Aline Afanoukoé
Producers: Alexandre Perrier, Val the Vandle, Rebecca Haithcoat, Taj Frazier, Nicolas Manuel
Producers for ARTE TV: Marie-Hélène Girod, Julie Gainet
Associate Producers: Jasmin Ratansi, Patricia Patton, Moses Lujan, Philippe de Bourgoing
Photography: Kasey Stokes, Ayla "Brass" Montgomery, Laurent Lawson, Brick Stowell, Julian Berman
Consulting Producers: J. Kevin Swain, Anthony Maddox
Music supervisor: Jeff Gray
Director of Photography: Marguerite de Bourgoing, Bradden Duemler, Laurent Lawson
Editors: Eric Pritchard, Helene Pasquet, Emilie Orsini, Jim Kelly, Marguerite de Bourgoing
Post-production: Francois Nabos
Graphics: Cyril Durignon
Sound Mix: Clement Chauvelle, Fox Fagan
Color grading: Reda Bebar
The US version is narrated by Jack Davey from J* Davey
HIP-HOP & THE INTERNET is co-produced by Arte France & Kidam Films in 2021 for ARTE TV
In 2019 "It's Yours: Hip-Hop & the internet" was released independently. It premiered in the UK at the Doc N Roll Film Festival in 2019 and in the USA at the Pan-African Film Festival in 2020. It had dozen of other screen festivals in more than 10 different countries.