BIFF doco reveals Mongolia's hip-hop underground | Bendigo Advertiser: "It's hard to imagine the land of Genghis Khan as a hip-hop mecca.
But that's exactly what tour guide turned filmmaker Benj Binks discovered while working in the region.
“I guess I rocked up expecting herders and nomads and this ancient lifestyle, but stumbled into Ulaanbaatar, which is modern ... I heard the hip-hop and thought it was cool,” says the 33-year-old Victorian.
Friends back home couldn't believe there was an underground hip-hop scene in the Mongolian capital, so after completing a filmmaking course, Binks decided it would make a great subject for a documentary.
“For some reason I thought going back to Mongolia and shooting a documentary in winter, in a foreign language, would be easy,” he laughs."
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