Schitt’s Creek‘s Dan Levy is ready to co-produce a documentary about Lilith Honest – a groundbreaking women-only music competition that befell within the Nineteen Nineties.
It was impressed by the male-dominated nature of the music trade, which we nonetheless see indicators of at this time admittedly. However change has occurred – with Glastonbury Pageant, for instance, having essentially the most feminine headliners in its historical past this yr.
Whereas we nonetheless have a protracted strategy to go earlier than equality is totally achieved, Lilith Honest was an enormous second – and we will not wait to look at a documentary about it.
This is what we all know thus far.
What was the Lilith Honest competition?
The primary competition was led by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan on July 5 1997 with a view to defy the norm that ladies by no means led competition levels or topped radio charts.
Festivals additionally ran in 1998 and 1999, attracting artists like Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple and Liz Phair, and helped launch the careers of Missy Elliott, The Chicks, Nelly Furtado and Christina Aguilera. Fairly cool.
“What Sarah built with that festival changed so much for so many people. And while it is now seen as an odds-defying success story, it was an uphill battle every step of the way. And there is a lot to be learned from that story. I’m thrilled to join Sarah on this adventure and am excited for everyone to understand just how revolutionary Lilith Fair really was,” the Schitt’s Creek star has stated in an announcement.
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The documentary might be directed by Ally Pankiw, who directed the primary season of comedy sequence Really feel Good, which starred comic Mae Martin and You star Charlotte Ritchie.
“Lilith Fair exemplifies the ‘cool older sister’ of the music industry, who already knows the joys and nightmares of being a woman and tries to make the path a little bit easier for future generations,” Ally said in a statement. “I want to give a deeper understanding of the festival to the young female, nonbinary and queer musicians and music fans who picked up a guitar or tickets to a concert for the first time because Lilith showed them how.”
Who might be interviewed for Dan Levy’s Lilith Honest documentary?
It has been confirmed that Sarah McLachlan, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Natalie Service provider, Mýa, Jewel, Indigo Women, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile and Olivia Rodrigo might be interviewed.
On prime of that 600 hours of never-before-seen archival footage, interviews and tales from followers, competition organisers and artists of Lilith Honest might be used.
