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Synopsis<\/strong> :\u00a0Many know the name Alvin Ailey, but how many know\u00a0the man? Ailey\u2019s commitment to searching for\u00a0truth in movement resulted in pioneering and enduring\u00a0choreography that centers on African American\u00a0experiences. Director Jamila Wignot\u2019s resonant biography\u00a0grants artful access to the elusive visionary\u00a0who founded one of the world\u2019s most renowned dance\u00a0companies, the Alvin Ailey American Dance\u00a0Theater.<\/p>\n

Directors Statement :\u00a0<\/strong>Nothing prepares you for the experience of Ailey\u2014theemotional, spiritual, aural, and visual overwhelmthe senses. As a filmmaker, I am drawn to stories about artists like Alvin Ailey\u2014innovators who tenaciously follow their own voice and in doing redefined their chosen forms. Ailey\u2019sdances\u2014celebrations of African American beauty andhistory\u2014did more than move bodies; they openedminds. His dances were revolutionary social statementsthat staked a claim as powerful in his own timeas in ours: Black life is central to the Americanstory and deserves a central place in American artand onthe world stage. A working-class, gay, Black man,he rose to prominence in a society that made everyeffort to exclude him. He transformed the world of dance and made space for those of us on the margins\u2014space for black artists like Rennie \u00a0Harris and me.<\/p>\n

I am inspired by subjective documentary portraitslike Tom Volf\u2019s Maria by Callas and Raoul Peck\u2019s IAmNot Your Negro, and by the poetic cinematic approachesof films such as Barry Jenkins\u2019 Moonlight andTerrence Malick\u2019s Days of Heaven. My aim was to blendthese influences into a sensorial, poeticdocumentary portrait.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jamila Wignot<\/p>\n

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FILMMAKER BIOS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamila Wignot | DirectorJamila Wignot is a documentary filmmaker based inNew York. Her directing work includes two episodesof the Peabody, Emmy and NAACP award-winning seriesThe African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross(PBS), hosted by Henry Louis Gates and chroniclingthe five hundred year history of African Americans;Town Hall (co-directed with Sierra Pettingill), afeature-length co-production with ITVS following TeaParty activists determined to unseat Barack Obama;and, for PBS\u2019s American Experience series, thePeabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and Emmy-nominatedWalt Whitman. Jamila\u2019s producing creditsinclude W. Kamau Bell\u2019s Bring The Pain (A&E); Sundance award-winning director Musa Syeed’s narrative feature A Stray (SXSW); Street Fighting Men, following the Black Detroiters fighting for the city they love, and The Rehnquist Revolution, the fourth episode ofWNET\u2019s series The Supreme Court, which was anIDA Best Limited Series winner.<\/p>\n

Lauren DeFilippo | Producer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauren DeFilippo is a documentary director and producerbased in New York. Her short films\u2014most notably Clean Hands, The Here After and Detroit PartyMarching Band\u2014have screened at numerous festivals, including Slamdance, Hot Docs and CPH:DOX,and have been featured on The New York TimesOp-Docs and Eyeslicer II. Her work has been supportedby institutions such as the Ford Foundation\u2019sJustFilms, Sundance Institute and IFP DocumentaryLab. Lauren co-produced the Emmy-nominated Intothe Canyon for National Geographic. Her recent directorialfeature debut, Red Heaven (co-directed withKatherine Gorringe), follows six people as they livefor a year inside a NASA psychological experimenttosimulate humanity\u2019s first outpost on Mars. In additionto producing Ailey, Lauren is currently directingFree Money, a feature-documentary about the world\u2019slargest universal basic income experiment nowunderway in rural Kenya. She holds an MFA in DocumentaryFilm and Video from Stanford University.<\/p>\n

Annukka Lilja | Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Annukka Lilja is a Finnish-born, New York-based editor whose award-winning documentary and narrative films have appeared on HBO and at major film festivals worldwide\u2014including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSWand IDFA. She was the recipient of the Best Editingaward from the International Documentary Festivalin2016 for How to Let Go of the World (and Love Allthe Things Climate Can’t Change) (directed by JoshFox, with a premiere at Sundance 2016). Her otherediting credits include Critics Choice 2020 awardwinner Mr. Soul! (directed by Melissa Haizlip andSamuel D. Pollard) and Bill Nye: Science Guy (directedby David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg). She most recentlyedited We Are As Gods (directed by DavidAlvarado and Jason Sussberg, co-edited with Ben Sozanski).<\/p>\n

Rebecca Kent | Archival Produce<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rebecca Kent is an investigative producer with expertise in archival research, rights and clearances. Hercredits include the award-winning documentary Amanda Knox, which premiered on Netflix in 2016;Crooked Media\u2019s The Wilderness, a fifteen-episodeaudio documentary on the history and future of theDemocratic party; and PBS\u2019s The Black Panthers: Vanguardof the Revolution. She holds an MA inJournalism from Northwestern University.<\/p>\n

Naiti G\u00e1mez | Director of Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naiti G\u00e1mez is a New York-based filmmaker from Miami\/Cuba. Naiti has worked as a cinematographer and director on award-winning films and television series. Her film Love, Sadie premiered at the Festivalde Cannes Short Film Corner. Films on which she hasworked as a cinematographer have screened atfestivals worldwide including Cannes, Sundance, Berlin,Camerimage, Tribeca, SXSW, Festival du Cinemade Paris, and Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona.Her TV credits include HBO, Showtime, PBS,ESPN, MTV, Discovery Channel, Nova, and Animal Planet.Naiti has also worked with non-profitorganizations in the U.S. and abroad. As a youth-mediaeducator, she’s collaborated with young peopleto produce videos about social, cultural and politicalissues that affect them. She holds an MFA in FilmProduction (Cinematography concentration) from theUniversity of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Bernard Roumain | Composer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlesslycollaborative composer, performer, educator,and social entrepreneur. \u201cAbout as omnivorous as acontemporary artist gets\u201d (New York Times), DBR hasworked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jonesto Lady Gaga; appeared on NPR, American Idol andESPN; and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera Houseand the City of Burlington, Vermont. Knownfor his signature violin sounds infused with myriadelectronic, urban and African-American musicinfluences, DBR\u2019s career spans more than two decades,earning commissions by venerable artists andinstitutions worldwide.<\/p>\n

Al Malonga | Production Designer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raised between France and Cameroon, Al Malonga isa versatile storyteller, production and costumedesigner, and art director based in New York City.After moving from Paris, Al organically built aneclecticportfolio, making it a point to always diversify andget a taste of all the different expressions andplatforms for her art form. Highly adaptable, heraesthetic eye and craft lead her to movies,commercials, but also short films, music videos, independentfeature films, as well as live shows andplays.<\/p>\n

Michael Kantor | Executive Producer for American MastersPictures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Kantor joined American Masters as the series\u2019executive producer in April 2014 and founded itstheatrical imprint, American Masters Pictures, inJanuary 2016. American Masters Pictures premieredthree films at Sundance Film Festival in 2019: MilesDavis: Birth of the Cool, N. Scott Momaday: Words. From a Bear and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am; and other Sundance premieres include Norman Lear:Just Another Version of You, Maya Angelou: And StillI Rise (Peabody Award) and Richard Linklater \u2013Dream is Destiny. Recent programs include Sammy Davis,Jr.: I\u2019ve Gotta Be Me, Bombshell: The HedyLamarr Story, Itzhak and Ra\u00fal Juli\u00e1: The World\u2019s aStage. An Emmy- and Peabody Award-winningfilmmaker, Kantor\u2019s PBS series include Broadway: TheAmerican Musical (hosted by Julie Andrews), Make\u2018Em Laugh (hosted by Billy Crystal) and Superheroes(hosted by Liev Schreiber), and he co-wrote thecompanion books for each series. He served as executiveproducer of Give Me the Banjo with SteveMartin and distributes the American Film Theatre series,including Edward Albee\u2019s A Delicate Balance,starring Katharine Hepburn, and Chekhov\u2019s Three Sisterswith Laurence Olivier. Kantor serves as a Tonynominator and oversees the American Masters Podcast.<\/p>\n

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