EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Williams has boarded the Wayfarer Studios, Misfits Entertainment and Mediawan documentary, Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, as EP.
Williams joins alongside Alicia Keys and recording artist Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, who we previously told you about. UTA is representing North American sales on the docu while Mediawan Rights is handling the rest of the world.
The Yemi Bamiro-directed feature documentary, Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, centers around photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite, who helped ignite the transformative “Black Is Beautiful” movement. Starting from Harlem in the 1950’s and working until his death in 2023, Brathwaite took half a million photos including many of “regular” people on the street but also thousands of intimate and unexpected photos of stars including Stevie Wonder, Muhammad Ali, Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, and the Jackson Five. Brathwaite’s photography captured sublime moments across fashion, activism, music, and art in a 60
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