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[12/05/14 - 06:35 AM]
"What Happened, Miss Simone?" A Netflix Original Documentary from Academy Award(R) Nominated Director Liz Garbus to Premiere in 2015
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.

[via press release from Netflix]

"What Happened, Miss Simone?" A Netflix Original Documentary from Academy Award(R) Nominated Director Liz Garbus to Premiere in 2015

Film Chronicles Nina Simone's Journey from Child Piano Prodigy to Iconic Musician and Passionate Activist, Told in Her Own Words

Produced by Netflix and Academy Award(R) and Emmy(R)-Winning Producers RadicalMedia

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., December 5, 2014 - Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, and RadicalMedia are producing What Happened, Miss Simone?, the new film from Academy Award(R) nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA and Bobby Fischer Against the World). The film will premiere exclusively in all territories where Netflix is available in 2015.

"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 Nina's 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 Nina's narrative, told largely in her own words. Rare concert footage and archival interviews, along with diaries, letters, interviews with Nina's 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 who's ever listened to one of her songs," said Justin Wilkes, President of Media + Entertainment at RadicalMedia and a producer of the film. "It's 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."

Academy Award(R)-nominated director Liz Garbus is a leading US documentary filmmaker and cofounder of Moxie Firecracker Films, under which she has produced over 15 films. Recent works include Love, Marilyn; the Emmy(R)-nominated Bobby Fischer Against the World; There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane and Girlhood. Her first film, The Farm: Angola, USA, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Oscar(R), and won two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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(R)-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.

About Netflix

Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with over 53 million members in nearly 50 countries enjoying more than two billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

About RadicalMedia

RadicalMedia, a global studio, has produced a number of films telling nuanced, multi-faceted stories including: the Academy Award and Independent Spirit Award-winning documentary The Fog of War; Grammy-winning Concert for George; Under African Skies, the Emmy Award-winning documentary examining the making of the groundbreaking and controversial Paul Simon record Graceland, The Ron Howard-helmed Jay-Z documentary, Made In America and The United States vs. James J. Bulger, Joe Berlinger's latest film that chronicles the trial of crime boss, Whitey Bulger.





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