Out today is the trailer for the Lisa Cortés-directed Little Richard: I Am Everything. The film which premiered during the opening night at Sundance is set to tell the origin story of the Black queer entertainer.

It’s clear that a bunch of archival footage was utitlized for this feature that’s pinpointing Richard Penniman – AKA Little Richard. There are quite a few performance clips too within the trailer too. There are appearances from the likes of Jason King the incoming dean of the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, Mick Jagger, Billy Porter, and more. His battle with his queerness was dissected too, described as his “complicated inner world.” A description of the documentary notes, “The film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.”

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