EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling UK distribution company Republic Film Distribution has acquired all UK rights to the feature documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, directed and produced by Timothy Greenf…
The Sundance debut is currently on release in the U.S. through Magnolia Pictures generating near $900K at the box office.
The doc charts the late writer’s journey from her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to ʼ70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room and a Nobel Prize. The esteemed writer passed away in August this year after a short illness, aged 88.
Talking heads include Hilton Als, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez and Oprah Winfrey, who starred in the feature version of Morrison’s novelRepublic, run by former Icon exec Zak Brilliant, plans to release the film in the UK in early 2020 working with partners including Reclaim the Frame and the Morrison’s UK publisher, Penguin Random House.open in the UK.
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