Hyper: The Stevie Hyper D Story15

Directed by Jamie Ross-Hulme & Darrell Austin | UK | 2024 | 1h 30m

UPDATE: Sadly, this screening will no longer followed by an in-person Q&A with the director as previously advertised. Apologies for any disappointment and inconvenience caused.  

A massive stage presence and a musical pioneer, Stevie Hyper D supercharged UK rave culture into one of the most significant global musical movements of the last 30 years. Stevie’s nephew Darrell Austin, goes on a highly personal and emotionally-charged journey to uncover the legacy of the UK’s original junglist soldier, MC Stevie Hyper D.

 

Reviews

‘Deep diving, broad ranging and impeccably crafted, this film about the late Stevie Hyper D, an MC from west London whose music and performances in the 1990s helped to create and shape drum’n’bass, is simply terrific.’ 
★★★★
Leslie Felperin, The Guardian

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We showed Hyper: The Stevie Hyper D Story between June 19, 2025 and June 19, 2025.

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