R&B singer Sharon Jones battles pancreatic cancer while working on a new album.
About the Event
Two-time Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on contemporary soul queen Sharon Jones in this documentary.
As Jones prepares to release her much-anticipated new album, she comes face to-face with the greatest challenge of her life: a grave pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Follow along over the course of an eventful year as she struggles to hold her band, The Dap-Kings, together while battling her way back to the stage with the determination of a true soul survivor. This film is not rated.
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