NYFF 2015 Preview – Clips From Don Cheadle’s Miles AheadPosted by Wilson Morales
October 8, 2015
Here are a few clips to Don Cheadle’s directorial debut, Miles Ahead, which will have its World Premiere at this year’s Closing Night selection for the 53rd New York Film Festival.
Miles Ahead tells the story of a few lost days in the life of jazz pionerr Miles Davis (Cheadle), the virtuoso, fighter and genius, as he bursts out of his silent period, conspires with Rolling Stone writer Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor) to steal back his music, and relives the years he had with his great love, Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi).
Written by Steven Baigelman and Cheadle, Miles Ahead also stars Michael Stuhlbarg, and Keith Stanfield as Junior, an edgy but impressionable trumpet player involved in the theft.
Cheadle, Lenore Zerman, Pamela Hirsch, Daniel Wagner, Robert Ogden Barnum, Darryl Porter and Vince Wilburn, Jr. produced the film. Mark Amin, Baigelman, Jonathan Gardner and Brian Pope executive produced. Davis’ son, Erin Davis, and daughter, Cheryl Davis, are also executive producers, and the film was made with the participation of The Miles Davis Estate. The film was financed by BiFrost Pictures.
“Miles was many things…a supreme artist and a national treasure but also an enigma to those around him, especially during his so-called quiet period,” says Cheadle. “With the family’s blessing and Miles’ tenets on creativity as our guide, we used these cloistered years as a jumping off point to compose the story of a self-exiled artist creating his own ‘centrifugal adventure’ to spin himself back into playing music again. And now I’m delighted that we’ve found the perfect partners in Michael, Tom and the SPC team to take this journey with us.”
The pics are from Brian Douglas.
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NYFF 2015 Miles Ahead Press Conference Part 1
NYFF 2015 Miles Ahead Press Conference Part 2
