SAADAK KAKTY (2009)

This is a Festival Commissioned Film, which debuted in 2009, as part of the San Francisco World Music Festival. We are working with Bishkek based NGO, Taalim-Forum, to develop a school the village of Jany-Tilek, which is located in the mountains of the Ak-Tala district, Naryn region. The students will be taught by two teachers, and managed by Akylbek Serkebaev, one of the most famous musicians in the country. We have purchased enough traditional instruments for all the students from a famous elder instrument maker. They will not only learn the traditional instruments, but the national epic singing called, Manas, the oldest epic in the world.