Published: October 19, 2009
Billie Holiday Documentary Nears Completion
Fundraiser Scheduled to Secure Completion Funding
On Sunday, July 26, 2009, THE BEING SERIES FILMS, will host a film completion fundraiser at Bohemian Caverns in Washington, DC. With a featured performance from vocal stylist Maysa, the fundraising event will also showcase excerpts from the soon-to-be released Billie Holiday documentary, "Being Billie: Re-imagining Billie Holiday". Proceeds from the benefit will be directed towards the acquisition of licensing rights for archival Holiday photograph and film footage to be included in the documentary.
The "Being Billie" documentary, (in addition to sketching a biographical portrait of the iconic jazz musician), brings together for the first time in one place, some of the brightest minds, prolific poets/writers, and dynamic FEMALE musicians of this century. Included in the film are interviews from Angela Y. Davis, Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, Rickie Lee Jones, Nikki Giovanni, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, and many others - each of whom offer reflections on how Holiday's story over time has evolved into a less than positive, one dimensional portrait, but whom also overwhelmingly provide insights that encourage a more realistic and positive way by which Holiday can be re-imagined.
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"I am both delighted and humbled" states the films Writer/Director Phyllis M. Croom, "at being afforded the opportunity to bring the very rich and uniquely relevant perspectives of all of these amazing women to the screen." Although a fundraiser for the film, the event will also serve to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Holiday's death on July 17, 1959. Croom further adds that, "this fundraiser just as the film, celebrate Lady Day's life and continued legacy".
About THE BEING SERIES FILMS Company
The BEING SERIES FILMS is an independent, women owned/operated film production company. The company is at work on the first in a series of films that will explore the significance of race, class, gender and sexuality, on groundbreaking minority women in the arts.
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