JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY
‘It’s hard to imagine another documentary this year that will be as
uplifting, entertaining and moving as Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From
Stardom’ Huffington Post
20 FEET FROM STARDOM
Sun 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 90 minutes
Director: Morgan Neville US 2012
Their voices are powerful enough to tear you apart
and put you back together again, and their stories will
do the same. But when you call them backup singers,
you better smile. That’s because the performers in
the infectious and irresistible 20 Feet From Stardom
are willing and able to outsing any solo act in sight
and are not shy about letting you know it.
Veteran director Morgan Neville (Troubadours)
has made a moving and joyous behind-the-scenes
documentary about a world filled with big, bold
personalities and the music they make. Neville
interviewed more than 50 people for this film,
including major stars like Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder,
Bruce Springsteen and Sting, but the people you
remember turn out to be the handful of women who
made and remade the backup world in their image.
Though 20 Feet talks to singers whose solo careers
faltered, in some ways the film’s most memorable
singer is a woman who made the break and then
went back. That would be the prodigiously gifted
Lisa Fischer, who won a Grammy for one of the
songs on her debut album but decided she didn’t
have the kind of ego necessary for a solo career.
For her, background singing seems to function as a
kind of higher calling, and the grace of 20 Feet From
Stardom is that it allows you to see why.
Kenneth Turan
LA Times
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