Watch Trailer To What Happened, Miss Simone?Posted by Wilson Morales
April 29, 2015
Netflix and RadicalMedia has released the trailer to WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and will be shown exclusively on Netflix on June 26.
“In What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus paints a brave and provocative picture of Nina Simone • artist, civil rights activist and heroine • in a film that we’ve loved from day one and are proud to bring to our viewers around the world.” said Lisa Nishimura, Netflix VP of Original Documentary Programming.”
“I’m thrilled that Netflix has embraced the incredible story of Nina Simone and partnered with RadicalMedia on this film,” said director Liz Garbus. “For each of her millions of fans, Nina feels like a treasured secret. With What Happened, Miss Simone?, I’m excited to help bring her passion, her music, and her story to the world.”
Classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon and legendary recording artist, Nina Simone lived a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy. In this epic documentary, director Liz Garbus interweaves never-before-heard recordings and rare archival footage together with Ninas most memorable songs, to create an unforgettable portrait of one of the least understood, yet most beloved, artists of our time.
The film uses never-before-heard audio tapes, recorded over the course of three decades, of Nina telling her life story to various interviewers and would-be biographers. From over 100 hours of these recordings, What Happened, Miss Simone? weaves together Ninas narrative, told largely in her own words. Rare concert footage and archival interviews, along with diaries, letters, interviews with Ninas daughter, Lisa Simone Kelly, friends and collaborators, along with other exclusive materials, make this the most authentic, personal, and unflinching telling of the extraordinary life of one of the 20th Century’s greatest recording artists.
“Throughout her life, Nina used her powerful voice to entertain, effect change and inspire anyone whos ever listened to one of her songs,” said Justin Wilkes, President of Media + Entertainment at RadicalMedia and a producer of the film. “Its only fitting that Nina will once again use her voice to enchant a new generation of fans by taking center stage in the telling of her own story.”
The Netflix original documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? is produced by Netflix and RadicalMedia in association with Moxie Firecracker. The film is directed by Liz Garbus and produced by Amy Hobby (Secretary, Love, Marilyn), Justin Wilkes (Made in America, Under African Skies), Jayson Jackson (Bridge & Tunnel on Broadway) and Garbus. Emmy®–award nominated cinematographer Igor Martinovic (House of Cards, Man on Wire) shot the film and Joshua L. Pearson (Made in America, Under African Skies) edited. Sidney Beaumont (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory), Jon Kamen (The Fog of War), Lisa Nishimura (The Square, Virunga), Adam Del Deo (The Square, Every Little Step) and Lisa Simone Kelly serve as executive producers on the film. The film was produced in cooperation with the Estate of Nina Simone.
Trailer
Here’s the first clip from the film.
