Description
ONE NIGHT ONLY SCREENING- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH.
Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms.
She wrote/cowrote the theme for Friends, the hit songs September and Boogie Wonderland for Earth, Wind & Fire, Neutron Dance for the Pointer Sisters, as well as tracks for Ray Charles, Sister Sledge, Cyndi Lauper, Nona Hendryx, Taylor Dayne and Toni Basil.
She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece – self-acceptance.
Allee began filming her life in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. This film is the realization of her wish that her “final art piece be someone putting together the trail I have left behind.”