‘Amazing Grace’ which documents the late singer recording a live concert album in 1972, will be screened at Fellowship Square on Saturday 5th October
Stow Film Lounge will screen a special documentary of Aretha Franklin at Waltham Forest Town Hall on Saturday 5th October in celebration of Black History Month.
Amazing Grace is described as a “never before seen documentary” of Aretha Franklin recording the most successful gospel album in history, of the same name.
In an event supported by Film Hub London, and managed by Film London, “Amazing Grace” is two days of Baptist church condensed to 90 minutes.
Shot in 1972 over a 48-hour period in Watts’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, the documentary captured the live recording of the most successful gospel album in history, Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace.
The result became her biggest seller, and earned her a Grammy Award. This film is a powerful love letter to the Black Church, offering a soul-shaking introduction for the unfamiliar and a grandmotherly yank of the arm for those who know—it drags you from the theater straight into the pews.
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The film will start at 7.15pm, with doors opening at 6pm. Tickets cost £12 for a full-price, while a concessionary ticket (over 65s, unions, students, job seekers, and under 18s) costs £8.
Founded in 2011 by former Museum of The Moving Image (MOMI) actors Nick Bertram and Marcus Shepherd, now respectively a film journalist and filmmaker, Stow Film Lounge was as a way to bring regular commercial screenings back to the borough as then Waltham Forest had no operating cinema.
Since 2011 the Lounge says it has shown over 500 classic, cult, bespoke and festival films at both indoor and outdoor events to over 30,000 people.
Find out more and snap up a ticket here
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