Ailey

Jamila Wignot's portrait of Alvin Ailey follows the choreographer from his Texas childhood to the founding of the dance company that made Revelations one of the most loved works of American dance. Archival footage and Ailey's own recorded words are woven with the company creating a new piece in his honour.

The film doesn't hide Ailey's loneliness or the pressures he lived under as a gay Black man who died of AIDS-related illness in 1989. It's a moving account of an artist who put Black life and faith on the concert stage.