“The Blues Society,” a documentary that unpacks the Memphis Nation Blues Pageant, will likely be launched on video on demand in July.
The movie, which is narrated by actor Eric Roberts, “reevaluates the lifetime of the Memphis Nation Blues Pageant (1966-1970) by the lens of race, the counterculture of the Nineteen Sixties, and the style of Memphis blues,” in keeping with a press launch. Written, directed and produced by Dr. Augusta Palmer, “The Blues Society” tells the story of blues masters Furry Lewis, Nathan Beauregard and Rev. Robert Wilkins.
The movie additionally examines “a bunch of white artists from the North and the South who created a celebration of African American music in a extremely segregated metropolis. Reaching into the current, the movie ends in a 2017 live performance the place John Wilkins returns to the stage that he final shared together with his father, Reverend Robert Wilkins, 48 years earlier,” per the discharge.
“The Blues Society” will likely be obtainable to lease/personal on all digital HD web, cable and satellite tv for pc platforms worldwide, in addition to on DVD, on July 9. The movie is obtainable by Freestyle Digital Media, the movie distribution division of Allen Media Group, whose founder, chairman and CEO, Byron Allen, owns theGrio.
“I didn’t need to simply make a live performance movie. Everybody can respect the unforgettable music in ‘The Blues Society,’ however love for the blues didn’t treatment white supremacy,” filmmaker Palmer mentioned. “I needed to recapture the idealism of the white organizers, but in addition to highlight Black voices and reveal the paternalism within the Nineteen Sixties blues revival. Structural racism has develop into way more seen to the nation for the reason that pandemic. We’ve come a good distance, however we nonetheless have a protracted approach to go.”
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J. Tinneny co-produced the movie alongside Palmer. The music documentary screened at movie festivals and theaters throughout the nation — together with the Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Movie, Three Rivers Arts Pageant, and the Mild Reel Movie Fest — by Could and June. Subsequent up, “The Blues Society” will display screen on the Hollywood Theatre in Portland on July 1. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to amass “The Blues Society” with Cultural Animal, LLC and Glen Reynolds of Circus Street Movies.
