Tanya Tucker/Brandi Carlile Documentary Picked Up by Sony Classics Out of SXSW
variety.comChris Willman Music Writer“The Return of Tanya Tucker, Featuring Brandi Carlile,” a documentary that premiered Sunday at the South by Southwest Film Festival, has had its world rights acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, the company announced Wednesday.“I’m over the moon that this special documentary has found such a perfect home with Sony Pictures Classics,” said Carlile, who is an executive producer as well as a subject of the film, in a statement. “I don’t think there’s a more fascinating human being on the planet than Tanya Tucker.
I can’t wait for the world to fall In love with this legend all over again.”Sony Classics said the film represents “the birth of a major filmmaker in Kathlyn Horan,” the doc’s director and producer.
Horan had worked with Carlile on some shorter-form projects previously, including the 2018 documentary short “Brandi Carlile at Washington Correctional Center for Women” and a music video from that same year, “Hold Out Your Hand.” Prior to that, she had done a feature documentary on one of Carlile’s favorite artists, the Indigo Girls, in 2015.
Horan’s non-music documentary credits include “The IF Project,” focused on how a Seattle police officer developed a writing project for inmates at a maximum-security women’s prison.The Tucker/Carlile doc focuses largely on the week-long making of Tucker’s comeback album, “While I’m Livin’,” in L.A.
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