Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Come Sunday) has composed the original music for the upcoming documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble. The film is directed by Dawn Porter (Trapped, Gideon’s Army) and focuses on the life and career of Rep. John Lewis. The movie chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Porter is also producing the CNN Films, AGC Studios and TIME Studios production with Laura Michalchyshyn (Trailer Park Boys) for Trilogy Films, alongside Erika Alexander & Ben Arnon for Color Farm Media. John Lewis: Good Trouble will be released in select theaters on May 1, 2020 by Magnolia Pictures.
Tamar-kali’s other recent projects include Dee Rees’ The Last Thing He Wanted, which just premiered on Netflix this past Friday, Kitty Green’s The Assistant, which is currently playing in select theaters, as well as Josephine Decker’s Shirley, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by Neon for a theatrical release later this year.
