EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped on Following Harry, a documentary that offers an inside view of 96-year-old civil rights icon Harry Belafonte’s continuing mission of social justice.
The film directed and edited by Susanne Rostock is being readied for premiere at fall film festivals. Belafonte, who celebrated his birthday on March 1, executive produces Following Harry.
He, Rostock and producer Julius Nasso previously collaborated on the 2011 documentary Sing Your Song, a film that examined both Belafonte’s groundbreaking career in entertainment and his key role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Following Harry is a present-tense account of Belafonte’s ongoing dedication to advance a more equitable and just society. It covers a span of time dating from the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida more than a decade ago until today. “Following Harry is a feature documentary that shares the lived experience of Harry Belafonte, in the most public of places and the most intimate confines of his private life,” a description of the film notes. “The film unfolds like a poem, allowing audiences to experience the effect that the social justice icon has purposefully, and unintentionally, created.
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