SXSW: ‘Finding Lucinda’ Documentary Lands at Freestyle Digital Media (Exclusive)

Ahead of a SXSW testing for Searching for Lucinda, Freestyle Digital Media has actually gotten the North American civil liberties to the music-driven documentary.

Directed by Joel Fendelman, the roadway motion picture complies with singer-songwriter Ismay, additionally called Avery Hellman, on a pursuit to find her hero and songs symbol Lucinda Williams and individuals and areas that formed her very early occupation. The doc, which premiered at SF IndieFest in San Francisco, is established for an autumn 2024 launch by the digital movie circulation department of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Team.

Searching for Lucinda includes meetings with Charlie Sexton– that had fun with Williams when he was 11 years-old and she was an obscure songwriter in Austin– Friend Miller, Mary Gauthier, Josh Baca and Max Baca of Los Texmaniacs, Wolf Stephenson and John Grimaudo, Williams’ guitar player from her initial document.

The movie was composed by Fendelman and Hellman, and generated by Liz McBee, Chuck Prophet and Jennifer Steinman Sternin. Marco Hellman, Avery Hellman and Alan Berg work as executive manufacturers.

“Working on Finding Lucinda gave me the extraordinary opportunity to truly understand what gives an artist their voice,” Avery Hellman, the granddaughter of the late Warren Hellman, that started San Francisco’s Rarely Purely Bluegrass Celebration and commonly had Lucinda Williams carrying out, claimed in a declaration.

“Over four years our whole team dove deep into finding out how place, upbringing, and a commitment to craft made Lucinda Williams the astounding artist she is today,” Hellman included.

Freestyle Digital Media worked out the circulation bargain for Searching for Lucinda straight with Fendelman and Hellman.