{"id":142121,"date":"2020-02-21T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=142121"},"modified":"2020-02-24T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:52:10","slug":"poster-to-doc-john-lewis-good-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/poster-to-doc-john-lewis-good-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster To Doc ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Magnolia Pictures has released the poster to the doc ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’<\/strong> directed by Dawn Porter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The poster was released to celebrate Lewis’ 80th birthday today.<\/p>\n

Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cin\u00e9ma verit\u00e9 film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.<\/p>\n

Produced by Dawn Porter and Laura Michalchyshyn,<\/strong> Magnolia Pictures will release JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE in theaters on May 1st, 2020<\/p>\n