Wavelength Productions has got on board a film about African American contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) for PBS' American Master series.
Rita Coburn is set to direct Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands for PBS, while Wavelength’s founder and CEO Jenifer Westphal and president Joe Plummer will executive produce.
Anderson is best known for her performance at the historic Freedom Concert on April 9, 1939, as part of a protest against racial intolerance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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