When Nora, a seamstress and aspiring pointe dancer, starts taking notes for the company’s first cast soloist, she is confronted with the reality of ballet’s physical and emotional demands. Director Bio:Carley Byers is a Boston-based filmmaker specializing in producing and directing. She values collaborating with other artists and finds immense joy in leading different kinds of creative projects.Her love of storytelling began with dance and theatre. These passions translate into her films through her theatrical visual style and sensitivity when working with performers.Carley graduated with a BFA in film/video production from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2021. She has worked on industry commercial sets as well as student and independent film projects.She strives to produce films rooted in authenticity in hopes of inspiring others through the power of the moving image.

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Nora is confronted with the reality of ballet’s physical and emotional demands.

In “Ailey,” the director Jamila Wignot layers images, video and — most important — voice-overs from Ailey to create a portrait that feels as poetic and nuanced as choreography itself.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/movies/ailey-review.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">- The New York Times</a> Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary. Director's Bio:Jamila Wignot is a documentary filmmaker whose directing work includes the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning series “The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” (PBS), hosted by Henry Louis Gates and chronicling the five hundred year history of African Americans; “Town Hall” (co-directed with Sierra Pettingill), a feature-length co-production with ITVS following Tea Party activists determined to unseat Barack Obama; and, for PBS’s “American Experience” series, the Peabody Award-winning “Triangle Fire” and Emmy-nominated “Walt Whitman.”

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Traces the full contours of Alvin Ailey, an elusive visionary whose enduring choreography centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.

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