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.
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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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