Little Richard: I Am Everything

Saturday April 22nd 2023, 3:00 pm

Silverspot Cinemas - Downtown Miami
300 SE 3rd St #100, Miami, FL 33131

Film Details

Runtime: 98 minutes

Language: English

Director: Lisa Cortés

Country: USA, 2022

Genre: Documentary, Gay, Historical, Music

It’s the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator and originator, Richard Penniman. Through archive and performance, we see Richard’s complicated inner world, unspooling the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. Family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, reveal how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard pinballed 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.

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