LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER (SXSW2023) – Review by Diane Carson

In the documentary Love to Love You, Donna Summer, directors Roger Ross Williams and Donna Summer’s daughter Brooklyn Sudano celebrate Donna Summer, including her eight year involvement with German avant-garde music, as lead singer of the psychedelic bank Crow, and, back in the U.S., her dominance of the dance scene from the mid-70s on. Through candid photographs, a wealth of home video footage, personal audio recordings, her paintings, and numerous clips from her performances, this superstar’s life in front of and behind the cameras is revealed.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Disco Queen Donna Summer Rocks New Doc – Brandy McDonnell reports

The late “Queen of Disco” Donna Summer will be the subject of a new feature documentary titled “Donna” from Polygram Entertainment, the film and television division of Universal Music Group. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence, Life, Animated) will direct the documentary alongside Summer’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano.

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