Overview
- Neon secured domestic distribution over competing bids from Netflix, Sony Pictures Classics, Mubi and Criterion.
- The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is slated for a theatrical release later this year.
- William Greaves filmed a four-hour gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries at Duke Ellington’s home on 16mm in 1972.
- More than 60,000 feet of unseen material was preserved and digitized by Louise Archambault Greaves and producer Anne de Mare under the supervision of preservationist Bill Brand.
- David Greaves directs the finished film, granddaughter Liani Greaves produces, and the deal was negotiated by Neon’s Sarah Colvin with Cinetic Media’s Jason Ishikawa and Isadora Johnson.