Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions has partnered with Roger Ross Williams and “The Inspection” director Elegance Bratton on a feature documentary about 1979’s Disco Demolition Night in Chicago.
Known as one of the darkest days in American music history, the incident saw 50,000 white teenagers descend on Chicago’s Comiskey Park to blow up records made by mostly Black artists.
The doc, which is called “The Night Disco Died,” is a co-production between HiddenLight and One Story Up, and will be presented by Impact Partners and Los Angeles Media Fund (Lamf).
The film will be directed and produced by Bratton, produced by Chester Algernal Gordon (“The Inspection”) and executive produced by Oscar winner and One Story Up’s Williams (“Life Animated”), Geoff Martz, and HiddenLight Productions’ Siobhan Sinnerton, Johnny Webb and Brenda Robinson.
Executive producers include: Andrew Blau, Morgan Earnest, Nina and David Fialkow, Bill and Ruth Ann Harnisch, Melony and Adam Lewis,...
Known as one of the darkest days in American music history, the incident saw 50,000 white teenagers descend on Chicago’s Comiskey Park to blow up records made by mostly Black artists.
The doc, which is called “The Night Disco Died,” is a co-production between HiddenLight and One Story Up, and will be presented by Impact Partners and Los Angeles Media Fund (Lamf).
The film will be directed and produced by Bratton, produced by Chester Algernal Gordon (“The Inspection”) and executive produced by Oscar winner and One Story Up’s Williams (“Life Animated”), Geoff Martz, and HiddenLight Productions’ Siobhan Sinnerton, Johnny Webb and Brenda Robinson.
Executive producers include: Andrew Blau, Morgan Earnest, Nina and David Fialkow, Bill and Ruth Ann Harnisch, Melony and Adam Lewis,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer/financier QC Entertainment has sealed a multi-year first look deal with Paramount. The company — QC stand for Quality Control — has credits highlighted by the Jordan Peele-directed Get Out and the Spike Lee-directed BlackKklansman, both of which were Best Picture nominees. They have upcoming Antebellum, the thriller that stars Janelle Monáe and was written and directed by the advocacy filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, who make their feature film debut.
QC is led by founding partners Sean McKittrick, Raymond Mansfield and Edward H. Hamm, and a team that includes Creative Executive Maya Rodrigo and Coordinator Okey Onyiuke. The multi-year deal covers scripted feature film projects and allows for QC to co-finance projects the company brings to the studio.
McKittrick also recently produced Jordan Peele’s box office hit Us.
QC Partners Mansfield and McKittrick said they found an ideal partner for their films in Paramount: “We...
QC is led by founding partners Sean McKittrick, Raymond Mansfield and Edward H. Hamm, and a team that includes Creative Executive Maya Rodrigo and Coordinator Okey Onyiuke. The multi-year deal covers scripted feature film projects and allows for QC to co-finance projects the company brings to the studio.
McKittrick also recently produced Jordan Peele’s box office hit Us.
QC Partners Mansfield and McKittrick said they found an ideal partner for their films in Paramount: “We...
- 9/10/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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