Overview
A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.In January 1972, Aretha Franklin gave two days of gospel performances at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, recording what would become her best selling album, Amazing Grace. The sessions were captured by a film crew led by Sydney Pollack, but the footage wound up shelved in a vault and has remained one of the lost cinematic treasures of twentieth-century music. Before Pollack’s death in 2008, he expressed a wish for the film to be completed, and producer Alan Elliott took it up with a team of supporters as a passion project. AMAZING GRACE lets the events unfold on film without imposing present-day interviews.
LIVE PERFORMANCE – Sunday, April 28th @ 4:30pm
Preceding the screening of AMAZING GRACE on Sunday, April 28th at 4:30pm, attendees will enjoy a brief live performance by Tenor Kunya Rowley, Artistic Director of Hued Songs. Hued Songs seeks to highlight the musical bodies of work by African American composers or inspired by African American history, culture, or literature.