CAA has signed documentarian Jamila Wignot, who recently premiered her latest Ailey at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.
As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.
Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.
Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.
As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.
Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.
CAA has signed documentarian Jamila Wignot, who recently premiered her latest Ailey at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.
As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.
Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.
Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.
As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.
Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.
Neon has made its second acquisition of the Sundance Film Festival with Jamila Wignot’s Ailey, about dance legend Alvin Ailey.
The film debuted at the festival yesterday in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. The documentary explores Ailey’s life and his connection to the present dance company that bears his name with never-before-heard audio interviews recorded in the last year of his life and rare dance performances by the Ailey Company. Ailey found salvation through dance and he pioneered choreography centering on African American experiences. He endured racism and homophobia; addiction and mental illness.
Darcy Heusel, Neon’s Head of Impact and Audience Engagement, remarked “Ailey is a searing and inspirational account of a visionary artistic genius who used his gift of dance and movement to express the Black American experience. Jamila Wignot has created an indelible portrait of both the artist and his work and Neon is...
The film debuted at the festival yesterday in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. The documentary explores Ailey’s life and his connection to the present dance company that bears his name with never-before-heard audio interviews recorded in the last year of his life and rare dance performances by the Ailey Company. Ailey found salvation through dance and he pioneered choreography centering on African American experiences. He endured racism and homophobia; addiction and mental illness.
Darcy Heusel, Neon’s Head of Impact and Audience Engagement, remarked “Ailey is a searing and inspirational account of a visionary artistic genius who used his gift of dance and movement to express the Black American experience. Jamila Wignot has created an indelible portrait of both the artist and his work and Neon is...
- 2/1/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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