VC Miami member, Director/Producer Jessamyn Ansary will showcase her latest film, Lee Fields: Faithful Man. She will then participate in a brief Q&A after the film ends.
6:30-7:30pm- Doors open for mingling
7:30pm - Screening starts
9:00 pm - Screening ends
9:00-9:30pm - Q&A & Mingling
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Jessamyn Ansary is a writer and producer for documentary film and unscripted TV. She got her start as an associate producer on acclaimed director Michael Apted’s multi-year documentary film, Married in America. Between 2008 and 2014 she worked on five different HBO documentaries, including The Alzheimer’s Project, Wartorn, and Americans in Bed. She was part of the producing team on the Emmy-nominated healthcare documentary Escape Fire, and she was a writer and story producer on the long running Travel Channel series Mysteries at the Museum. She has written and produced for networks such as National Geographic, HBO Max, Fusion, PBS, and CNBC, among others, and has cast talent for multiple Food Network shows, including Chopped. Most recently, she produced a series of short branded documentaries for eBay, co-produced an upcoming true crime feature documentary for Hulu, and wrote scripts for the long-running Oxygen true-crime series Snapped. Jessamyn is currently a scriptwriter on Sins of the City for Jupiter Entertainment. Her favorite Lee Fields song is Time, and she's thrilled to be able to share Lee's story with the world.
ABOUT THE FILM
LEE FIELDS IS A FUNK & SOUL LEGEND 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING!
HIS REMARKABLE JOURNEY WILL TAKE YOU FROM VINYL TO VIRTUAL & BACK AGAIN.
His voice has been compared to James Brown, but Lee Fields is no knock-off – he’s the real thing. Listening to the soul sounds coming through his transistor radio in the late fifties and early sixties, Lee was hooked. Through the seventies, he made his living touring the legendary Chitlin’ Circuit alongside some of the greatest names in blues and soul history. He landed a gig with Kool and the Gang before their rise to fame. But, as the seventies came to a close, disco began its reign and Lee's soul career plummeted.
For decades, he thought his music dreams were dead. But with one phone call, everything changed...Interspersed with striking, never-before-seen performances of new and classic Lee Fields songs, the Lee Fields Film (working title) takes us through Lee's memories from the moment soul music began to his hard-won present-day success - and shows how 50 years of changing technology has conspired to create one beautiful but fleeting moment in music history.
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