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Over the weekend Roc Nation took a trailer of a documentary about MIA off the internet as a row between the label and the director erupted, but the clip is now viewable again. Watch it below. 

The descision to pull the video was seemingly made for reasons to do with the lead up to the release of MIA's new album Matangi. Whether it was a publicity issue or something else is not entirely clear, but luckily for those hoping to see a snippet of the upcoming documentary directed by Steve Loveridge, it has resurfaced.

Following the leak, director Steve Loveridge pulled out of the project, telling Roc Nation that he "really couldn’t give a flying fuck" and that he "would rather die than work on this".

The video does not give too much of the film away, save for a few snatches of MIA's personal life and interviews with some big names who talk about how they respect MIA as an artist and as a provocateur.

From the short clips of MIA on camera, one gets the impression the documentary will mainly concern her status as a 'contraversial figure. She speaks of her father being 'a terrorist', and how it 'fucked up the family'. Her father fought with the Tamil Tigers, and there is a sequence of clips showing the backlash by the media and the public to some of her outspoken statements. She is seen being described as a 'Terrorist Sympathiser', which seems far from the truth.

The documentary may be an attempt to explore some of MIA's political views and to help fight incorrect popular opinion of her, but also to understand where she has come from and how she has built her life up from the troubles faced in her earlier life and feelings of displacement in a country that she did feel welcome in.

MIA fan or not, the documentary looks to be an interesting examination of her life and how her influence has expanded both positively and negatively. It also looks to reveal the hardships of balancing her family life with her musical and activist careers.

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