Making Music Docs That Aren’t One Note
Join Firelight Media for a conversation featuring BIPOC filmmakers whose documentaries go beyond one-note celebrity profiles to interrogate the power of music and musicians to shape and advance culture. Legendary filmmaker Stanley Nelson (‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’) will be joined by Sabaah Folayan (‘Look at Me: XXXTentacion’) and Isabel Castro (‘Mija’) whose films leverage the music doc genre to explore urgent issues such as mental health, immigration, and intimate partner violence. The panel will explore the craft behind making music documentaries and provide a behind-the-scenes look at how filmmakers work with artists, their families, and their estates to create truthful and balanced portraits of their subjects. Moderated by Fredara Hadley, ethnomusicology professor at Juilliard.
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Isabel Castro
Tertulia Pictures
Sabaah Folayan
Firelight Media
Fredara Hadley
The Juilliard School
Stanley Nelson
Firelight Media