Questlove’s Sly & The Family Stone Documentary to Premiere at 2025 Sundance

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Questlove’s Sly & The Family Stone documentary will be unveiled next year.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) will be premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. A synopsis of the documentary, courtesy of the outlet, reads as follows:

“An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while shedding light on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.”

Questlove had first announced the documentary in 2021.

“It goes beyond saying that Sly’s creative legacy is in my DNA,” The Roots drummer said in a statement at the time. “It’s a Black musician’s blueprint. To be given the honor to explore his history and legacy is beyond a dream for me.”

SLY LIVES! Serves as the follow-up to Quest’s directorial debut, the documentary Summer of Soul. The documentary received the Grammy for Best Music Film in 2022.

Along with the Sly documentary, a memoir on the influential artist, titled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), was released last year. The book was released on Questlove’s AUWA Books, a publishing imprint of MCD/FSG.

“For as long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story, I wasn’t ready,” Sly said in a statement ahead of the book’s release that year. “I had to be in a new frame of mind to become Sylvester Stewart again to tell the true story of Sly Stone. It’s been a wild ride and hopefully my fans enjoy it too.”

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