Mongolian Bling: Brisbane Film Festival Review - The Hollywood Reporter: "Director Benj Binks tracks the explosion of hip-hop in Mongolia as an ancient culture searches for a modern identity.
A more improbable hip-hop nation would be hard to imagine, but Australian filmmaker Benj Binks finds the flow in Mongolian Bling, a keenly observed, rhythmically buoyant documentary charting the rise of rap in the snow-blanketed ’hoods of post communist-era Mongolia.
Forget the yurts, nomads and Genghis Khan, Binks takes us inside a modern-day culture boasting a vibrant alternative music scene, where baggy-jeaned, baseball-capped youth experience the growing pains of their young democracy through the beats and socio-political rhymes of the country’s rap stars.
Resisting the urge to coast on novelty value alone, the polished, cannily edited film delves deep into the barely known society using hip hop as a prism. Following its screening at the Brisbane International Film Festival this week, it could stir interest on the international fest circuit, while a one-hour small-screen version to air on Australian national broadcaster ABC November 25 should easily find slots in overseas TV markets."
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