The great acting legend Sidney Poitier died in January at age 94. He did not live to see the thrilling new documentary on his life and career, Sidney, which had its world premiere Saturday night at…
as director, Poitier gets an extraordinarily comprehensive and wide-ranging look at his life told in linear fashion and narrated by himself through the use of eight hours of interview footage done in 2012 with Winfrey, as well as other archival interviews.
It is fortunate that it is now going to reach audiences and future generations as testament to one of the greats, but more importantly, to the man himself.During the day on Saturday at the St. Regis hotel in Toronto, I was able to sit down with Hudlin and Winfrey together, as well as separately producer Derik Murray, to find out more about the making of the docu which is actually only the second time Hudlin has working in the genre .
“It was an honor to get the call, and I felt immediately protective because he meant so much to me, not just as a filmmaker but as a man, and I wanted it to be told the right way and I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Oprah would be the person I would want to do it with,” Hudlin said. “My gratitude to her and her incredible contributions throughout the process are boundless because her encyclopedic knowledge of his history is incredible.
“We’re all his children, and grandchildren, and great grandchildren. We are all on his shoulders. He is the Alpha, he is the Big Bang because there is no Black cinema without him, because before him what did we have? From the beginning of the motion picture industry, the most derogatory images of Black people imaginable, ignorant at best, evil at worst,” said Hudlin.
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