Dogwoof Release New Trailer For Little Richard Doc ‘I Am Everything’
Dogwoof have shared a brand new trailer for Academy Award® nominated and Emmy-winning producer and director Lisa Cortés’ upcoming documentary, Little Richard: I Am Everything — which arrives in cinemas and on digital on 28th April.
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock’n’roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator — the originator– Richard Penniman.
Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians (including Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Nile Rodgers and more), and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave tothe world he was never able to give to himself.
Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes — he was unabashedly everything.
Directed by Lisa Cortés, Little Richard: I Am Everything is produced by Robert Friedman, Cortés, Liz Yale Marsh and Caryn Capotosto and Executive Produced by Dee Rees.
The documentary is produced by Bungalow Media + Entertainment for CNN Films and HBO Max, in association with Rolling Stone Films.
