Mathew Knowles — longtime music supervisor, entrepreneur and father of Beyoncé and Solange — is bringing his 2017 memoir to the display screen, in response to his agent, Shawn Scallon at Buchwald.
Knowles has partnered with Say Unkel Leisure to adapt the ebook, Racism From the Eyes of a Little one, right into a characteristic movie in addition to a restricted collection. The characteristic will cowl the primary half of the ebook, which works into Knowles’ formative years in Alabama as certainly one of simply six black college students to attend an all-white faculty and his participation in peaceable protests calling for racial equality. It additionally addresses how the efforts of such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Turner and Ralph Abernathy helped form the individual he grew to become.
Selection was first to report the information.
Robert Unkel, a former vp of programming at twentieth Century Fox, advised Selection the script for the characteristic is full. Unkel will oversee the event of the mission with producer Howard Kazanjian.
Knowles famously managed Future’s Little one, the woman group that includes Beyoncé that rose to fame within the late Nineties and helped set the stage for her ascent to superstardom the next decade. He managed Beyoncé’s solo profession till the 2 parted methods in 2011. By way of his faith-based document label and administration firm Music World Leisure, he has additionally managed such gospel acts as Brian Courtney Wilson, Trin-i-tee 5:7 and Future’s Little one member Michelle Williams. In June, Knowles fashioned Music World TV, Movie & Media, the place he serves as CEO.
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