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Wednesday, May 1, 2019: Alan Elliott, Irene Taylor Brodsky and more

Today on q: Amazing Grace producer Alan Elliot on Aretha Franklin, q online columnist Elamin Abdelmahmoud, singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan, documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky.
Aretha Franklin in Amazing Grace, q online column: the end of the Instagram aesthetic, singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan, documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky. (Neon/Warner Bros., Unsplash, Rob Waymen, Getty Images)

Today on q, with host Tom Power:

  • Amazing Grace producer Alan Elliot discusses the decades-long journey to bring Aretha Franklin to the big screen.
  • Our online columnist Elamin Abdelmahmoud takes a closer look at why young influencers are abandoning the Instagram aesthetic.
  • Singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan, daughter of Gene MacLellan, revisits her father's history with depression in a documentary called The Song and the Sorrow.
  • Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky shines a light on deafness in Moonlight Sonata, a new documentary that she calls "an ode to silence."

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