Performance with Special Guest:
Samantha Montgomery A.K.A Princess Shaw

In every corner of the world, at any given moment, random people post personal video clips online. They are their virtual messages in a bottle, tossed into the boundless sea that is the Internet. Most of these posts flounder in a sad limbo of indifference and anonymity-unless your YouTube handle happens to be Princess Shaw. Samantha Montgomery, 38, lives alone in one of New Orleans’ toughest neighborhoods. By day she works as a caregiver for the elderly; at night she transforms into Princess Shaw, belting out soulful originals at sparsely attended open mic nights and posting clips on YouTube. usually reaching just a handful of viewers. One of her followers happens to be Kutiman, a.k.a. Ophir Kutiel, an Israeli musician living on a kibbutz outside Tel Aviv, who mashes up YouTube videos from all over the world to create new musical pieces. Princess Shaw has no idea that he has found hers. A rousing documentary crowd-pleaser about a star-crossed singer-songwriter and Video/Music Artist Kutiman.

Sponsored by:
Phil and Diane Switzer
Yael Rubanenko and Jeremy Horwitz


A19+

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Festivals and Awards

  • Winner - Life Tales Award, International Competition – Biografilm Festival
  • Winner – Audience Award – Sheffield International Documentary Festival

Screening Details

Film Info

Year2015
CountryUSA, Israel
DirectorIdo Haar
Runtime 83 min
LanguageEnglish, Hebrew w/English subtitles
Genre