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Enongo (aka Sammus) navigates music, academia and identity in this documentary that examines her life as a rapper, scholar, teacher and nerd.
What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell PhD candidate, and a proud nerd all at once? Director Kevin Schreck follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time career alongside academic life. Through her unique afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo/Sammus tackles mental health, identity, race and feminism while cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike.
The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team - the first in the history of feature filmmaking - bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: her Ithaca upbringing, years teaching in Houston, return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together. Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, Enongo is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who artist who consistently thinks outside boxes and dances across lines.
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Bonus Materials
- Full-length audio commentary track by director Kevin Schreck, composer EmmoLei Sankofa, and animators
- Q&A at the Hip Hop Film Festival with subject Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, director Kevin Schreck, and animators Shammah McVay & Anaiyah Tatiana
- Animation-themed Q&A at the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and animator Anaiyah Tatiana
- Music-themed Q&A at the Denton Black Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and composer EmmoLei Sankofa
- Storyboard to Final Animation comparisons
Cast & Crew
Actors:- Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo as self
- Lanre Akinsiku as self
- Zöe Brecher as self
- Adrienne Hailey as self
- N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba as self
- Alejandro Tello as self
Director: Kevin Schreck
Producer: Kevin Schreck
Additional Details
Label: IndiePix Films
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Run Time: 92 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 08/11/26
UPC: 845637064984
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Enongo (DVD) PREORDER
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Enongo (aka Sammus) navigates music, academia and identity in this documentary that examines her life as a rapper, scholar, teacher and nerd.
What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell PhD candidate, and a proud nerd all at once? Director Kevin Schreck follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time career alongside academic life. Through her unique afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo/Sammus tackles mental health, identity, race and feminism while cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike.
The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team - the first in the history of feature filmmaking - bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: her Ithaca upbringing, years teaching in Houston, return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together. Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, Enongo is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who artist who consistently thinks outside boxes and dances across lines.
Media
Bonus Materials
- Full-length audio commentary track by director Kevin Schreck, composer EmmoLei Sankofa, and animators
- Q&A at the Hip Hop Film Festival with subject Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, director Kevin Schreck, and animators Shammah McVay & Anaiyah Tatiana
- Animation-themed Q&A at the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and animator Anaiyah Tatiana
- Music-themed Q&A at the Denton Black Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and composer EmmoLei Sankofa
- Storyboard to Final Animation comparisons
Cast & Crew
Actors:- Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo as self
- Lanre Akinsiku as self
- Zöe Brecher as self
- Adrienne Hailey as self
- N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba as self
- Alejandro Tello as self
Director: Kevin Schreck
Producer: Kevin Schreck
Additional Details
Label: IndiePix Films
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Run Time: 92 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 08/11/26
UPC: 845637064984
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Enongo (aka Sammus) navigates music, academia and identity in this documentary that examines her life as a rapper, scholar, teacher and nerd.
What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell PhD candidate, and a proud nerd all at once? Director Kevin Schreck follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time career alongside academic life. Through her unique afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo/Sammus tackles mental health, identity, race and feminism while cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike.
The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team - the first in the history of feature filmmaking - bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: her Ithaca upbringing, years teaching in Houston, return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together. Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, Enongo is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who artist who consistently thinks outside boxes and dances across lines.
Media
Bonus Materials
- Full-length audio commentary track by director Kevin Schreck, composer EmmoLei Sankofa, and animators
- Q&A at the Hip Hop Film Festival with subject Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, director Kevin Schreck, and animators Shammah McVay & Anaiyah Tatiana
- Animation-themed Q&A at the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and animator Anaiyah Tatiana
- Music-themed Q&A at the Denton Black Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and composer EmmoLei Sankofa
- Storyboard to Final Animation comparisons
Cast & Crew
Actors:- Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo as self
- Lanre Akinsiku as self
- Zöe Brecher as self
- Adrienne Hailey as self
- N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba as self
- Alejandro Tello as self
Director: Kevin Schreck
Producer: Kevin Schreck
Additional Details
Label: IndiePix Films
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Run Time: 92 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 08/11/26
UPC: 845637064984
