‘The Return Of Tanya Tucker — Featuring Brandi Carlile’: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Doc Following SXSW Premiere
deadline.comSony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to the feature documentary The Return Of Tanya Tucker — Featuring Brandi Carlile, on the heels of its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.The film from director Kathlyn Horan (The If Project) tells the story of the trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker, who defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave.
Decades after Tanya slipped from the spotlight, six-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.Horan’s TinFish Films produced alongside Motto Pictures’ Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn (The Velvet Underground), in association with Impact Partners and Artemis Rising.
Carlile and InMaat Productions exec produced alongside Lynn Hubbard & David Zapolsky, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, The Wadsworth Family, Regina K.
Scully, and Adam & Melony Lewis.“It’s so surreal to see my life captured moment by moment during the recording process with Brandi, as well as some footage that I haven’t seen in decades!” said Tucker. “Sony Pictures Classics is the perfect partner and I can’t wait for the world to see this masterpiece Kathlyn and her team captured!”“I’m over the moon that this special documentary has found such a perfect home with Sony Pictures Classics,” said Carlile. “I don’t think there’s a more fascinating human being on the planet than Tanya Tucker.
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