A brand new Donna Summer season documentary, co-directed by the disco icon’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, will premiere on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant this month earlier than arriving on HBO in Could.
Sudano co-directed Like to Love You, Donna Summer season, with Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. The movie will chronicle Summer season’s distinctive profession — from a star of the avant-garde artwork, music, and theater scene in Germany to an era-defining international famous person — whereas additionally digging into her private life, her music-making course of, and different inventive endeavors like portray. Summer season died in 2012, on the age of 63, after a battle with most cancers.
Like to Love You will embody a trove of archival footage, together with images and never-before-seen dwelling movies, a number of which have been shot by Summer season. The movie may also function reflections and recollections from Summer season’s household, associates, and friends.
Like to Love You will mark Sudano’s directorial debut; she’s primarily labored as an actress, with roles on TV exhibits like Merciless Summer season, Taken, and Ballers. For Williams, Like to Love You is certainly one of two movies he’s premiering this 12 months: The opposite, Cassandro, is a biopic of the homosexual Mexican wrestler Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), who grew to become a famous person after creating the persona of Cassandro (a.ok.a. the “Liberache of Lucha Libre”).
Cassandro, which simply premiered at Sundance, marks Williams’ narrative function debut. He’s beforehand garnered popularity of his documentaries Life, Animated and The Apollo (concerning the iconic Harlem venue), in addition to his 2010 quick, Music by Prudence, which gained an Academy Award.