Music festival stages have been dark for more than a year, but Oklahoma City’s 21st annual deadCenter Film Festival will bring director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s music documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” to Booker T. Washington Park for a free outdoor screening June 12.
Opening for “Summer of Soul,” which brings to light never-before-seen footage of the 1969 festival presented at what is now Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, is the documentary short “Pause the Game,” marking the fourth OKC Thunder Film to premiere at deadCenter.
Plus, deadCenter will rock Wheeler District on June 11 with an outdoor screening of “We Are The Thousand,” a one-of-kind rock doc about the global formation of a 1,000-plus member band who all happen to love the Foo Fighters.
The state’s largest film festival, deadCenter 2021 is set for June 10-20. Much like the 2020 event, this year’s festival will be a hybrid attraction, with movies available online for the duration of the festival and a limited slate of outdoor screenings and events for passholders, sponsors and the public offered the first weekend, June 10-13.
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Questlove presents a powerful and transporting documentary — part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural…
