Sundance 2021: 20 Films You Need To Know About
2. Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is the directorial debut of much-loved musician Questlove, examining the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, an epochal event for Black culture yet one which has been curiously swept under the rug ever since.
Questlove's film unearths the festival, videos of which have literally been kept in a dusty basement for 50 years, by mixing extensive musical performance footage with passionate interviews from festivalgoers.
The result is at once an excellent concert film and affecting slice of unseen history, now brought back into the public consciousness courtesy of Questlove's superb filmmaking.
Summer of Soul will be distributed by Searchlight Pictures and Hulu.