Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, "Shout Gladi Gladi" celebrates the extraordinary people who rescue African women and girls from obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can turn them into reviled outcasts. Directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, and filmed in Malawi and Sierra Leone, the film spotlights the quest of Ann Gloag, the indefatigable philanthropist and former nurse who drives the movement to save these vulnerable women, and presents the patients as they tell stirring tales of their struggles and triumphs. Everything culminates with the exuberant Gladi Gladi ceremony, a singing and dancing blowout that marks the day the women and girls return home cured. "Shout Gladi Gladi" will be have a limited theatrical release and will be available on iTunes beginning October 2. Read More: Meryl Streep Narrates 'Shout Gladi Gladi' Doc about Maternal Care for African Women The filmmaking team recently shared this exclusive.
- 9/24/2015
- by Adam Friedman
- Indiewire
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Adam Friedman is an Emmy winning producer who has produced over 23 documentaries. Friedman’s latest project, Shout Gladi Gladi takes us to Sierra Leone and follows one woman’s quest to cure fistula.
- 3/16/2015
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
The feature documentary, “Shout Gladi Gladi,” co-directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, focuses on women’s health in Africa with a particular emphasis on fistula, a common, debilitating condition...
- 2/27/2015
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep is set to narrate Shout Gladi Gladi, a feature documentary about women’s health in Africa. Co-directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, it focuses on fistula, a common, debilitating that turns once-healthy women into outcasts. The film also features appearances by Melinda Gates and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wole Soyinka. Streep, whose 19 Academy Award nominations is more than any other actor, most recently starred in Into The Woods…...
- 2/27/2015
- Deadline TV
Oscar winner Meryl Streep has signed on to narrate the feature documentary “Shout Gladi Gladi,” which concerns women’s health in Africa with an emphasis on fistula. The common condition often occurs after unattended childbirth in underdeveloped countries, and the once-healthy women who develop it are rendered incontinent and often turned into outcasts in their villages and families. Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy are co-directing the film, which is being made in collaboration with The Freedom From Fistula Foundation, an organization run by Scottish businesswoman, philanthropist and activist Ann Gloag. Friedman and Kennedy document Gloag’s experiences working with some of the world’s.
- 2/26/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The multiple Oscar winner has come on board to narrate the documentary about fistula, a debilitating condition that turns healthy African women into outcasts.
Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy co-direct the documentary, which is being made in collaboration with The Freedom From Fistula Foundation run by the film’s executive producer Ann Gloag.
Friedman will produce through his company Vertical Ascent.
Shout Gladi Gladi also features appearances by Melinda Gates and Nobel Peace laureate Wole Soyinka.
“This powerful film attests to the igniting power of one woman, Ann Gloag, to set in motion hundreds of helping hands, doctors, nurses, caregivers, family and friends, to resuscitate the health and status of victims of fistula, and to give them back their lives,” said Streep.
Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy co-direct the documentary, which is being made in collaboration with The Freedom From Fistula Foundation run by the film’s executive producer Ann Gloag.
Friedman will produce through his company Vertical Ascent.
Shout Gladi Gladi also features appearances by Melinda Gates and Nobel Peace laureate Wole Soyinka.
“This powerful film attests to the igniting power of one woman, Ann Gloag, to set in motion hundreds of helping hands, doctors, nurses, caregivers, family and friends, to resuscitate the health and status of victims of fistula, and to give them back their lives,” said Streep.
- 2/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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