Co-directed by the disco icon’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, a new Donna Summer documentary will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February prior to its HBO release in May.
Alongside Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, Sudano co-directed Love to Love You, Donna Summer that chronicles the pop/Disco legend’s unique career. From performing in the German avant-garde art, music, and theater scene, to becoming an era-defining global superstar, the film digs into the singer’s personal life, her music-making process, and other artistic endeavors like painting.
Including photographs and never-before-seen home videos, much of which were shot by Summer, Love to Love You will include a treasure trove of archival footage and reflections and memories from Summer’s family, friends, and peers.
While she’s worked in front of the camera as an actress on TV shows’ Cruel Summer, Taken, and Ballers, Love to Love You is Sudano’s directorial debut. And for Williams, the Summer docs is one of two films he’s premiering this year long with Cassandro, the biopic of the gay Mexican wrestler Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), who became a superstar after creating the persona of Cassandro (a.k.a. the “Liberache of Lucha Libre”).
Donna Summer died in 2012, at the age of 63, after a battle with cancer.
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Author: Al Denté