Violet Crown presents The Violet Underground Music Documentary Monthly Film Series. A showcase of stories about the musicians & producers who created the songs we love.
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator -- the originator -- Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n' roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes -- he was unabashedly everything.
"I Am Everything serves as an honest portrait that doesn't shy away from the shadows of Little Richard's career, but it's also moving and funny..."
Jorge Loser
Espinof
"A feature film full of stimuli that director Lisa Cortes manages to fill with passion and admiration."
Toni Vall
Cinemanía
Violet Crown presents The Violet Underground Music Documentary Monthly Film Series. A showcase of stories about the musicians & producers who created the songs we love.
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator -- the originator -- Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n' roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes -- he was unabashedly everything.
"I Am Everything serves as an honest portrait that doesn't shy away from the shadows of Little Richard's career, but it's also moving and funny..."
Jorge Loser
Espinof
"A feature film full of stimuli that director Lisa Cortes manages to fill with passion and admiration."
Toni Vall
Cinemanía