{"id":73276,"date":"2015-10-08T12:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2015\/10\/08\/nyff-2015-preview-first-clip-from-don-cheadles-miles-ahead\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:38:20","slug":"nyff-2015-preview-first-clip-from-don-cheadles-miles-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/nyff-2015-preview-first-clip-from-don-cheadles-miles-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"NYFF 2015 Preview – Clips From Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYFF 2015 Preview – Clips\u00a0From Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

October 8, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Miles<\/a>Here are a few clips\u00a0to Don Cheadle<\/strong>\u2019s directorial debut,\u00a0Miles Ahead, which\u00a0will have its World Premiere at this year\u2019s Closing Night selection for the 53rd New York Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0(Ewan McGregor<\/strong>) to steal back his music, and relives the years he had with his great love, Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Written by Steven Baigelman<\/strong> and Cheadle, Miles Ahead also stars Michael Stuhlbarg<\/strong>, and Keith Stanfield <\/strong>as Junior, an edgy but impressionable trumpet player involved in the theft.<\/p>\n

Cheadle, Lenore Zerman, Pamela Hirsch, Daniel Wagner, Robert Ogden Barnum, Darryl Porter<\/strong> and Vince Wilburn, Jr.<\/strong> produced the film. Mark Amin, Baigelman, Jonathan Gardner<\/strong> and Brian Pope executive produced. Davis\u2019 son, Erin Davis<\/strong>, and daughter, Cheryl Davis<\/strong>, are also executive producers, and the film was made with the participation of The Miles Davis Estate. The film was financed by BiFrost Pictures.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiles was many things\u2026a supreme artist and a national treasure but also an enigma to those around him, especially during his so-called quiet period,\u201d<\/strong> says Cheadle. \u201cWith the family\u2019s blessing and Miles\u2019 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 \u2018centrifugal adventure\u2019 to spin himself back into playing music again. And now I\u2019m delighted that we\u2019ve found the perfect partners in Michael, Tom and the SPC team to take this journey with us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pics are from Brian Douglas.<\/p>\n