‘This World Is Not My Own’: Juno Films Acquires SXSW Doc On Folk Artist Nellie Mae Rowe
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Boutique distributor Juno Films has picked up North American and UK rights to This World is Not My Own, a documentary portrait of the folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe from filmmakers Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell, which premiered earlier this year at SXSW.
The award-winner will be released in theaters in the summer of 2024. Beginning with her birthday on July 4, 1900, Rowe’s life spanned the 20th century.
For most of it, she made art in obscurity, propelled by a force she viewed as a God-given gift. As the daughter of a sharecropper and former slave, Rowe made art from whatever she could find.
As an adult, she transformed her home into her “Playhouse,” an imaginative oasis filled with vibrant drawings, handmade sculptures and dolls, and collected objects.
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