Netflix has taken the worldwide rights to Giving Voice, the Sundance Audience Award winner. Directed by James D. Stern and Fernando Villena, Giving Voice follows six students as they compete against fellow high schoolers in the August Wilson Monologue Competition in New York City for the opportunity to perform at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway.
The competition has students explore themselves and the world around them through monologues from playwright August Wilson’s cycle of ten plays focused on the Black experience in America.
The streaming giant will release the documentary later this year. Meanwhile, the film adaptation of Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C.
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