Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ Wins Best Documentary

“Summer of Soul.” The film chronicles the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, a music festival featuring heavy-hitter Black and Latino performers, including Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson and Gladys Knight & The Pips.

While star-studded, the concert was overshadowed by Woodstock, which happened the same summer, about 100 miles to the northwest, and 40 hours of footage from the event sat unwatched and forgotten inside boxes in the producer’s basement for a half-century. “Summer of Soul” is the first film made by Mr. Thompson, a drummer, bandleader and founding member of The Roots, a seminal indie hip-hop group from Philadelphia that now serves as the house band for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

Mr. Thompson tracked down and interviewed Harlem residents who had attended the festival and intercut their memories with interviews with music historians and images of New York City in the 1960s.The film was released by Disney’s Searchlight Pictures and streamed on Hulu.Oscars 2022 Live Updates: Troy Kotsur of 'CODA' Makes Oscars History; 'Dune' Reaps Visual AwardsShare This Page

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