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Film Festival 2025
This mesmerizing, music-rich documentary charts the dazzling rise and tormented fall of keyboard genius and conflicted gay artist Billy Preston. Follow his journey from gospel roots in the 1950s to inspired collaborations with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, to the 1970s in Topanga Canyon.
film details
| Director: | Paris Barclay |
| Producers: | Stephanie Allain, Jeanne Elfant Festa, Nigel Sinclair, Cheo Hodari Coker |
| Screenwriter: | Paris Barclay, Cheo Hodari Coker |
| Cinematographers: | Ernesto Lomeli, Carmen Delaney, Jerry Henry |
| Editor: | Scott D. Hanson |
| Music: | Robert Glasper, Derrick Hodge |
| Cast: | Billy Preston, Ringo Starr, Suzanne De Passe, Blinky Williams, Gloria Jones, Sandra Crouch, Eric Clapton, Merry Clayton |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Running Time: | 104 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (PSIFF 1996) |
| Primary Company: | Homegrown Pictures and White Horse Pictures |