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Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
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| This year, it is the second newsletter regarding Black history Month.
To consult the first one, click here.
To discover this new release about a R&B star who eclipsed Etta James and Little Richard, read the information below the image or click on this image.
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| | ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY
Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
2024 | 99 min
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| | | | A star is reborn. With an outsize stage presence that eclipsed R&B greats like Etta James and Little Richard, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane was the real deal.
After mysteriously vanishing from public view for almost 40 years, this little-known icon is given her ultimate due in Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee's remarkable documentary portrait Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, executive produced by Elliot Page.
In an era when voices like hers were silenced and marginalized, Jackie blazed an incandescent trail from her native Nashville to the top of the charts in 1960s Toronto, where she ruled the nightclub scene. With few recordings of her legendary performances, this film brings Jackie to life in her own words through never-before-heard phone conversations, dazzling rotoscope animation and a newly released song, part of an incredible soundtrack that seals Jackie's place as one of the greatest soul performers of the 20th century.
The full scope of her extraordinary life and career is an epic journey, marked by family secrets, loss and love. From standing down the mob to telling off Ed Sullivan, Jackie lived as her most authentic self through talent, courage and an unbreakable commitment to truth. But on the eve of her return to the stage, fate had other plans. In Any Other Way, Jackie finally gets her second act. Or in her own words: "Oh, Honey! When it comes to Jackie, look out!"
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| | | Florence François
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| | Programming Agent, NFB |
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| | P.O. Box 6100, Station Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3H5 |
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