Film Club x Bounce Cinema: Summer Of Soul
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Release Date
- 8 October 2025
- Genres
- Documentary
- Classification description
- 12A
- Directed by
- Questlove
- Starring
- Mavis Staples, Hugh Masekela, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Moms Mabley, Jesse Jackson
- Synopsis
- The Harlem Cultural Festival took place the same summer as the famed Woodstock festival, and boasted an attendance on par with that concert 100 miles away. Over 300,000 people attended, yet it received virtually no coverage from the mainstream media. The 40 hours of never-seen-before footage has remained in storage for the past 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost - until now. It features many extraordinary performances by artists including Stevie Wonder, Sly and The Family Stone, Nina Simone, B.B. King, the Staple Singers, the 5th Dimension, David Ruffin, Mahalia Jackson, Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Film Club x Bounce Cinema: Summer Of Soul
To celebrate Black History Month, Bounce Cinema has guest curated the Film Club programme First Cuts: Black Debuts, which comprises directorial debuts from acclaimed Black directors.
