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Sundance: Neon Nabs Alvin Ailey Dance Documentary 'Ailey'

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Neon has picked up Jamila Wignot’s documentary Ailey, about dance and choreography legend Alvin Ailey, after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

The deal is Neon's second at Sundance after it nabbed the North American rights to Flee, an animated doc from Jonas Poher Rasmussen that counts Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers.

Ailey debuted on Saturday as it presented audio interviews recorded in the last year of Ailey's life and rare dance performances by the Ailey Company and first-hand accounts. “Ailey is a searing and inspirational account of a visionary artistic genius who used his gift of dance and movement to express the Black American experience.

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