Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Name: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Genre: Music, Documentary, History
Released: 2021-07-02
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Rock, Tony Lawrence, Nina Simone

A Questlove Jawn.

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

2021-07-02

Country

United States

Production

RadicalMedia, Mass Distraction Media, Vulcan Productions, Concordia Studio

Genre

Music, Documentary, History

Budget

Box office

$3 695 948

Website

https://www.searchlightpictures.com/summerofsoul/

Director

Questlove

Actors

Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Rock, Tony Lawrence, Nina Simone, B.B. King, Abbey Lincoln, Mavis Staples, Mahalia Jackson, David Ruffin
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel, David Dinerstein, Davis Guggenheim, Jon Kamen, Jonathan Silberberg, Beth Hubbard, Nicole Stott, Rocky Collins, Dave Sirulnick

Camera operator

Shawn Peters

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Joshua L. Pearson
Whole Team (39)

Short description

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

What's left behind the scenes

The Harlem Cultural Festival comprised six concerts held between June 29th and August 24th, 1969, in one of Harlem's parks, and attracted a total of 300,000 attendees.
In the concert scenes, the viewer hears authentic recordings from those years, made during the festival. The quality of the footage was such that practically no restoration was necessary.
A vast amount of material used in the film was accidentally discovered in a basement, where it had lain for half a century.
Director Amir-Khalib Thompson managed to reduce 40 hours of footage to just two hours in several stages. First, he cut everything down to 24 hours, then spent more time in the editing room, resulting in 3.5 hours of material, from which he eventually removed another hour and a half. The entire process took Thompson five months.
Director Amir-Khalib Thompson managed to cut 40 hours of footage down to just two hours in several stages. First, he cut everything down to 24 hours, then spent more time in the editing room to get it down to 3.5 hours, from which he eventually removed another hour and a half. This process took Thompson five months.