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Presenting Princess Shaw: The rise of a YouTube singing sensation

An aspiring musician in the US inspires a famous YouTube artist, Kutiman, in a collaboration that goes viral.

Filmmaker: Ido Haar

By day, Samantha Montgomery cares for the elderly in a tough New Orleans neighbourhood. By night, she writes and performs her own songs as Princess Shaw on YouTube. When her videos are discovered by Kutiman, a famous Israeli artist known for his video mashups for amateur YouTube performers, it is the beginning of a magical collaboration that brings her music to a whole new audience.