Questlove’s 'Summer of Soul' is Bigger than Black Woodstock
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essence.comSummer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, most people had never heard of the event.
Though Thompson was “enraged” that this piece of entertainment history had been kept from the world, he still didn’t know how involved he wanted to be in the project.
He thought Dinerstein and Fyvolent were asking him to produce, as he had with the Broadway musicals Fela! and Hamilton. But they actually wanted him to direct. “Besides a video for Common, I’ve never directed anything in my life,” Thompson says. “Why me?
This is too historically important for you to give it to a first-time driver behind an 18-wheeler to go cross-country.”So Thompson dodged Dinerstein and Fyvolent for seven.
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