Roots Daughters: The Women of Rastafari

Bianca Nyavingi Brynda's powerful and unique documentary stars Judy Mowatt and focuses on the Rastafari movement from the woman's perspective. Roots Daughters not only traces the origins of Rastafari roots from Africa, but it also examines various groups of Rasta women from Jamaica, Guyana, South America, and Canada and their diverse social, political, and economic reality. The film focuses on the Rasta women's fight for equality in a male dominated culture. Nyahbinghi, the central ritual of Rastafari, which includes drumming, chanting, and reasoning, is featured for the first time. Also, critical Rastafarian figures are profiled, including Emperor Haille Selassie (the spiritual leader of Rastafari), Marcus Garvey (Jamaica's Black freedom fighter), and musical prophet/reggae superstar Bob Marley, who helped spread the movement around the world through his music. Roots Daughters offers the viewer a rare opportunity to experience a modern living myth: the Rastafari world, an organic and complex culture