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Palm Pictures jazzed up by Anita O’Day docu

0 shares SHARE TWEET EMAIL PRINT Palm Pictures picked up a docu portrait today that, like last year’s tragi-drama of La Vie en Rose demonstrates, musicans often come with open wounds. THR reports that the label picked up the distrib rights to the Tribeca film festival-selected Anita O’Day: The Life Of a Music Legend. “Legend” […]

Palm Pictures picked up a docu portrait today that, like last year’s tragi-drama of La Vie en Rose demonstrates, musicans often come with open wounds. THR reports that the label picked up the distrib rights to the Tribeca film festival-selected Anita O’Day: The
Life Of a Music Legend
.

“Legend” includes new interviews with jazz artists Annie Ross, Margaret Whiting and George Wein, along with
rare footage of O’Day performances with Louis Armstrong and other
musicians from her 1940s heyday. O’Day, who overcame alcoholism, rape, heroin addiction and jail time in her seven decade career.

 

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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