Next month, Red Bull Music Academy will be releasing a full-length feature film What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music. Directed by award-winning director Ralf Schmerberg and shot at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York, the film will premiere on February 17 through limited engagement screenings in select cities across the globe including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit followed by a free worldwide digital release on February 18 on redbullmusicacademy.com.
What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. Through arresting and original images orchestrated in a rhythmic and musical way, the film seeks to go beyond music, and ask questions about life itself.
Artists featured in the film include Lee Scratch Perry, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Giorgio Moroder, Erykah Badu, Nile Rodgers, Rakim, Skream, Q-Tip, Bernie Worrell, Egyptian Lover, Ken Scott, Thundercat, Richie Hawtin, James Murphy, Debbie Harry, Stephen O Malley and many others. Every one of these artists has been heavily influential in shaping the face of music today and all of these artists have lectured or been studio tutors at the Red Bull Music Academy.
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