Youssou N'Dour Documentary Opens in NYC Theaters This Weekend; N'Dour to Join Director for Q&As

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Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love, the award-winning film that documents the creation of and response to N'Dour's 2004 Grammy-winning album Egypt, begins its theatrical run in New York tomorrow at the Paris Theatre and IFC Center in Manhattan, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The Senegalese superstar and the film's director, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, will make personal appearances at the three New York-area theaters on opening day and the following day, Saturday, taking questions from the audience about the film.

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Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love, the award-winning film that documents the creation of and response to N'Dour's 2004 Grammy-winning album Egypt, begins its theatrical run in New York tomorrow, June 12, at the Paris Theatre and IFC Center in Manhattan, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where the film was screened this past weekend as part of the city's Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas festival. You can watch the trailer for the film at nonesuch.com/media.

The Senegalese superstar and the film's director, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, will make personal appearances at each of the three New York–area theaters on opening day and the following day, Saturday, taking questions from the audience about the film. On Friday, they will appear following the 7 PM show at the Paris and following the 8:10 PM show at the IFC; on Saturday, they'll appear following the 2 PM show at BAM's Rose Cinemas.

I Bring What I Love chronicles N'Dour, a devout Sufi Muslim, as he releases Egypt, a deeply personal and religious album, in the hope of promoting a tolerant face of Islam. Prior to last Saturday's Muslim Voices sold-out screening at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House, he told the Associated Press he hopes the film will help him "break a taboo subject—that Islam is what the extremists do."

The Wall Street Journal's Christopher John Farley spoke with Vasarhelyi, the director, about her own journey for the film, which was five years in the making, about an artist whose work she had hardly known just months before the project began. "Now that the director has had the opportunity to follow Mr. N’Dour through an eventful period in his life," writes Farley, "she has become a die-hard fan." Says Vasarhelyi, Youssou “has got one of the most extraordinary voices on earth ... And he has always sung about what he believes in—it’s kind of like the way Bob Marley was."

There's much more on the film at online.wsj.com.

The film will open in Los Angeles on July 3, 2009, and in an additional 25 cities throughout the summer. For the latest information on the film's release, visit ibringwhatilove.com.

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Youssou N'Dour: "I Bring What I Love" US poster 2009
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    Youssou N'Dour Documentary Opens in NYC Theaters This Weekend; N'Dour to Join Director for Q&As

    Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love, the award-winning film that documents the creation of and response to N'Dour's 2004 Grammy-winning album Egypt, begins its theatrical run in New York tomorrow, June 12, at the Paris Theatre and IFC Center in Manhattan, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where the film was screened this past weekend as part of the city's Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas festival. You can watch the trailer for the film at nonesuch.com/media.

    The Senegalese superstar and the film's director, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, will make personal appearances at each of the three New York–area theaters on opening day and the following day, Saturday, taking questions from the audience about the film. On Friday, they will appear following the 7 PM show at the Paris and following the 8:10 PM show at the IFC; on Saturday, they'll appear following the 2 PM show at BAM's Rose Cinemas.

    I Bring What I Love chronicles N'Dour, a devout Sufi Muslim, as he releases Egypt, a deeply personal and religious album, in the hope of promoting a tolerant face of Islam. Prior to last Saturday's Muslim Voices sold-out screening at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House, he told the Associated Press he hopes the film will help him "break a taboo subject—that Islam is what the extremists do."

    The Wall Street Journal's Christopher John Farley spoke with Vasarhelyi, the director, about her own journey for the film, which was five years in the making, about an artist whose work she had hardly known just months before the project began. "Now that the director has had the opportunity to follow Mr. N’Dour through an eventful period in his life," writes Farley, "she has become a die-hard fan." Says Vasarhelyi, Youssou “has got one of the most extraordinary voices on earth ... And he has always sung about what he believes in—it’s kind of like the way Bob Marley was."

    There's much more on the film at online.wsj.com.

    The film will open in Los Angeles on July 3, 2009, and in an additional 25 cities throughout the summer. For the latest information on the film's release, visit ibringwhatilove.com.

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