Wattstax

Wattstax (1973)

100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.

Date of release
1973-02-04
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Music, Documentary
Director
Mel Stuart

Casting

Interesting facts

Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time. The genres of the songs performed included soul, gospel, R&B, blues, funk, and jazz. Months after the festival, Stax released a double LP of the concert's highlights, Wattstax: The Living Word. The concert was filmed by David L. Wolper's film crew and was made into the 1973 film titled Wattstax.

Production credits

Executive Producers: Al Bell, David L. Wolper

Associate Producer: Forest Hamilton, Hnic.

Consultants: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Tommy Jacquette, Mafundi Institute, Rev. Jesse Boyd, Teddy Stewart, Richard Thomas, John W. Smith, Sylvester Williams, Carol Hall

Cinematography: Roderick Young, Robert Marks, Jose Mignone, Larry Clark

Edited by: Robert K. Lambert, David Newhouse, David Blewitt

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