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Little Richard left this mortal coil in 2020, but tonight the architect of rock’n’roll is coming to shake up the Sundance Film Festival.

More talent deals are incoming at Blue Ant as the Canadian giant seeks “significant growth” over the coming years, according to Content Production Co-President Sam Sniderman.

CNN Films and HBO Max have commissioned a new documentary about Little Richard, from Emmy-winning director Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight for Democracy) of Cortés Filmworks. The film, Little Richard: I Am Everything (w/t), will take a deep dive into the life and career of the iconic musician, who did what he felt, and felt what he did—”at all costs”—presenting never-seen-before archival footage, as well as interviews with loved ones, colleagues, contemporary musicians and historians.

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award and Emmy nominated director Lisa Cortés has signed a new first look deal with Blue Ants Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to Double Play, the latest feature from award-winning filmmaker Ernest Dickerson (DMZ, Juice). The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios will release the film, based on Curaçaoan author Frank Martinus Arion’s internationally acclaimed Dutch-language novel Dubbelspel, on digital and VOD platforms on February 22.

Brenda Robinson, an entertainment attorney, producer and partner at film financing and development company Gamechanger Films, has been elected the new chair of the board of directors at Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization behind the Spirit Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: Beanie Mania filmmaker Yemisi Brookes, documentarian-cinematographer Christopher Frierson (DMX: Don’t Try to Understand), director-producer Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight For Democracy), directors Morgan Pheme and Dan DiMauro (Get Me Roger Stone), Mark Laita’s YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly and The Speed Cubers filmmaker Sue Kim have signed with Black Box Management for representation.

Broadcast FilmAll In: The Fight for DemocracyDirected by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés | AmazonDavid Byrne’s American UtopiaDirected by Spike Lee | HBODisclosureDirected by Sam Feder | NetflixIn the Same BreathDirected by Nanfu Wang | HBOTinaDirected by Dan Lindsay and T.J.

Amazon Studios’ All In: The Fight for Democracy examines the history of voter suppression in the U.S. Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician and lawyer, stars in and produces the documentary directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés that spotlights those who fought against voter suppression, and those still fighting today.

At the height of the COVID pandemic, All In: The Fight for Democracy directors Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés reached out to Janelle Monáe to write a song for the documentary about voter suppression. By her own admission, Monáe “mentally wasn’t in a good space” and had stopped recording.

Got a new agenda,With a new dream,I’m kicking out the old regime,Liberation, elevation, education.

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Cortés, co-director of Amazon’s voter suppression documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, is set to direct The Empire of Ebony, a documentary that explores the rise and impact of the first black media empire Ebony magazine and its sister publication, Jet. Cortés will produce the pic with Alyse Shoreland and Roger Ross Williams under his One Story Up banner. Cortés and Williams previously collaborated on the Emmy-winning doc, The Apollo.

Also Read: Pete Buttigieg Launches New Podcast With iHeartMediaMoss’ recent film, “Boys State,” was acquired out of the Sundance Film Festival by Apple and A24 and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

Netflix has dominated the Oscar documentary race the last few years, winning Documentary Feature in 2020 and 2018, but the release of the Academy shortlists Tuesday confirms it faces a battle this time around, from a rival streamer.

Lisa Cortes This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.— Carter G. Woodson (1933)The invites always come as the year turns over.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has gone all in with Lisa Cortés, and vice versa.

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams plays a central role in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés, but the film from Amazon Studios shouldn’t be construed as “The Stacey Abrams Story.”

EXCLUSIVE: A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom! Rolling Stone is teaming with Bungalow Media + Entertainment to develop Little Richard: I Am Everything. The documentary, which will be directed by Lisa Cortes (All In: The Fight For Democracy) and executive produced by Dee Rees (Mudbound), will spotlight the trailblazing, one-of-a-kind rock ‘n roll icon who shaped the world of music.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith only three weeks before a particularly consequential Election Day, political movies — both documentaries and docudramas — are flooding the market in an effort to keep voters engaged and enraged.Most prominent are Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Alex Gibney’s pandemic response expose “Totally Under Control” and Liz Garbus-Lisa Cortés’ “All In: The Fight for Democracy.”But that’s just the tip of the political iceberg of movies taking

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFormer Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voter activist Stacey Abrams doesn’t want to see what happened in 2018 happen again in 2020.Abrams lost the Georgia election to Brian Kemp amid widespread accusations that Kemp’s campaign had engaged in voter suppression.

Janelle Monae has dropped a new music video!

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— “All In: The Fight for Democracy": Directors Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés document a timely subject, voter suppression, in this film premiering Friday on Amazon Prime. The film, the latest in a rush of pre-election documentaries on the U.S.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“All In: The Fight For Democracy” is not a Stacey Abrams biopic.That story, as director Liz Garbus says, “was a fig leaf over something more, complicated and historical hundreds of years in the making.”The Amazon Studios documentary, which hits theaters Wednesday before arriving on Sept.

Janelle Monáe just dropped her powerful new track “Turntables”.

Janelle Monáe is taking on the 2020 election with her new song "Turntables." The soulful cut of protest rap appears in the upcoming voter suppression documentary All In: The Fight For Democracy. The film is directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés and features former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Janelle Monae is looking to inspire.

Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, USA, 2020, 102mAll In: The Fight for Democracy is an invigorating and rigorous primer on the history of voter suppression in the United States, an insidious and still persistent reality in our nation.

online now.Other panelists included in the series are Victoria Alonso, Lisa Cortés, Debra Martin Chase, Carmen Cuba, DeVon Franklin, Nadia Hallgren, Taraji P.