It was announced today that the Oscar-nominated and multiple award-winning documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will return to the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage to open their season of shows in neighborhood parks, in commemoration of Juneteenth.
The film, returning for a second year to SummerStage, will screen for free and outdoors on Friday, June 17 in Marcus Garvey Park, where The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed. Summer of Soul previously celebrated the national holiday there with the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage last year.
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary – part music film, part historical record – created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in summer 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten – until now.
Summer of Soul premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. The film has swept the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards with wins in all six categories for which it was nominated, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director.
The Searchlight Pictures, Onyx Collective and Hulu documentary has also won 55 awards across critics’ groups and guilds including the 75th BAFTA Awards, Spirit Awards, DOC NYC, the AFI Special Award, Cinema Eye Honors, IDA, ACE, LAFCA, AAFCA and NBR, and has earned an additional 38 nominations including the 94th Oscars, DGA, the GRAMMYS, PGA, NAACP, MPSE Golden Reel, among many others. The film also marks Disney’s Onyx Collective’s first Academy Award nomination.
Summer of Soul is streaming on Hulu and Disney+, in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective; Searchlight Pictures released it theatrically.
Admission for the screening is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, visit here.
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