NewportFILM presents AMERICAN SYMPHONY screening one night only at the JAC

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Doors: 6:00 pm Film: 7:00 pm

Reception held prior to the film

Tickets required through NewportFILM

ABOUT THE FILM:

Early in 2022, multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste finds himself the most celebrated artist of the year with eleven Grammy nominations including Album of the Year. In the midst of that triumph, Jon is immersed in his most ambitious challenge yet: composing “American Symphony”, an original symphony that thrillingly reimagines the classical traditions of the form, bringing together an expansive and inclusive diaspora of music for a performance at storied Carnegie Hall. This extraordinary trajectory is upended, however, when Batiste’s life partner – best-selling author Suleika Jaouad – learns that her long dormant cancer has returned. In the moving and deeply intimate AMERICAN SYMPHONY, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, The First Wave, Retrograde) delivers a portrait of two inimitable artists at a crossroad and a profound meditation on art, love, and the creative process.

6:00 PM:Doors open, reception begins

7:00 PM:Film Start

Run time:100 min

Director:Matthew Heineman

Cast:Jon Batiste, Suleika Jaouad