Hassan Khademi goes inside the the illegal recording studios and interviews the renegade practitioners of the nascent Persian-language rap scene in his 37-minute documentary "Rapping in Tehran," screening Saturday 2/27 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival and Saturday 3/6 in the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.
Sonali Aggarwal champions the music's activist potential in her documentary "Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?" screening Saturday in the Humboldt Park Art Fair Film Festival.