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Amazing Grace

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Original title

Amazing Grace

Year

2018

Running time

87 min.

Country

United States

Director

Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack

Cast

Music

Aretha Franklin

Producer

Sundial Pictures. Distributor: Neon

Genre

Documentary | Music Documentary. Concerts

Synopsis

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 bestselling 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.

Rankings Position

#71 The Best Concerts of the 21st Century
#107 Best Music Documentaries

Awards: 2019: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)

2018: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Documentary.

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