Friday, June 25th
doors open: 6:30pm
screening begins: 7pm
Spotlight Cinemas Capital 8
Columbia, SC exclusive!
Part music film, part historical record created around the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, SUMMER OF SOUL (...or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) honors this epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. The Festival took place the same summer as Woodstock, and was filmed but never seen...until now. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s directorial debut is a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present.
The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, B.B. King, The Staple Singers, The 5th Dimension and more, the film uses the festival’s musical performances to tell the story of the cultural and sociopolitical upheaval happening at that time.
SUMMER OF SOUL premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. It will stream on Hulu in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective; Searchlight Pictures will release it theatrically.
SUMMER OF SOUL is presented under the Luminal Theater’s BLK Docs label in partnership with Searchlight Pictures, Red Olive Culture Commons, and Spotlight Cinemas Capital 8.