Chicago-born singer-composer Samantha Montgomery, aka Princess Shaw, seeks personal and artistic validation in this affecting documentary. When she’s not working at a New Orleans nursing home, Montgomery attends local open mike events and uploads her a cappella performances to YouTube. Unbeknownst to her, she finds a fan in Israeli musician and video artist Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, who mixes her renditions with instrumentals from other YouTube contributors and gets her noticed by a wider audience. Montgomery’s music is informed by her hardships—childhood abuse, poverty, losing a lover—and as her emotional struggles continue the movie starts to straggle. Ido Haar directed. In English and subtitled Hebrew.
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