Giving Voice (2020)

Directed by

Fernando Villena, James D. Stern

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows high school students competing in the August Wilson Monologue Competition. They work to perform monologues on Broadway.

inspiringemotionalfocusedheartfeltcompetitivepoignantsupportiveuplifting

What happens

Giving Voice is a 2020 American documentary film, directed and produced by James D. Stern and Fernando Villena. The film follows the 2018 edition of the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition entered by thousands of high school students for the opportunity to perform on Broadway. Viola Davis, John Legend, Constanza Romero and Nicholas Caprio serve as executive producers. The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Festival Favorite award. It was released on December 11, 2020, by Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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