Sundance: Director Bao Nguyen On ‘We Are The World’ Docu, Lionel Ritchie Karaoke, Prince’s Guitar & Return To Park City
deadline.com“I didn’t really know much about the making of the song,” admits The Greatest Night in Pop director Bao Nguyen of 1985’s star-studded Ethiopian famine relief hit “We Are the World.” “You just make these assumptions about how things are made because it just happens.
But when you think now of 46 great artists getting together to make that, it would be really impossible for that to happen now.” Whether or not the superstars of 2024 could or would come together like the hit makers of the Reagan Era did in America and the UK almost 40 years ago is debatable.
What is a fact is that Nguyen’s latest documentary is debuting today at the Sundance Film Festival just a few days short of when U.S.A.
for Africa recorded the Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson penned tune in a studio in Los Angeles. It is also a fact that, after a total of four Sundance screenings, the 96-minute Greatest Night in Pop film is launching on Netflix on January 29.
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