DIONNE WARWICK: DON'T MAKE ME OVER Cinema Intro + Q&A | TIFF 2021
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"The team behind DIONNE WARWICK: DON'T MAKE ME OVER in conversation with TIFF following its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. This inspiring documentary portrait chronicles the iconic singer’s fascinating six-decade career in both music and Black and LGBTQ activism.
The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit tiff.net.
Dionne Warwick is a living legend. With that singular voice, both delicate and impassioned, her interpretations of many Burt Bacharach-Hal David compositions - “Walk On By,” “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” - are regarded as definitive. Her activist work for the Black and LGBTQ communities has had a profound impact, yielding her 1985 version of “That’s What Friends Are For,” sung with Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John, which raised over $3 million for AIDS research. Warwick’s life and work, encompassing the Black American experience over the past six decades, is the subject of Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner’s inspiring documentary portrait.
The core of the film is Warwick herself. Charismatic, outspoken, and stylish, she’s a great raconteur, chronicling her New Jersey roots, formative experiences singing in church, and early success at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater. She also toured the southern US with Sam Cooke at the height of Jim Crow segregation, fighting back against racist humiliation on a daily basis. Her string of hits with Bacharach and David later took her to Europe, where she discovered haute couture with Marlene Dietrich and found that her music could bridge cultural divides - a revelation confirmed when she became the first Black artist to win a Grammy in the Pop category (with “San Jose” in 1969, repeated in 1971 with “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”).
Warwick’s testimonies are complemented by a galaxy of colleagues and admirers: Bacharach, Gladys, Stevie, and Elton, but also Quincy Jones, Alicia Keys, Bill Clinton, Carlos Santana, and Warwick’s cousin, the late Whitney Houston (in archival material). And then there’s Snoop Dogg, who tells a story about being invited to Warwick’s house for donuts at 7am, with a crew of fellow rappers in tow, that beautifully illustrates Warwick’s audacity and wisdom. It’s no wonder she’s become the queen of Twitter lately. Every chapter in DON'T MAKE ME OVER is glorious.
Dave Wooley is a director, producer, writer, and adjunct professor at Wilmington University. He has co-written two books with Dionne Warwick: My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography, and the NAACP Image Award-nominated Say a Little Prayer. Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (21) is his directorial debut. David Heilbroner was born in New York City and was educated as an attorney. He has produced the Oscar-nominated short documentary Traffic Stop (17) and, with his wife Kate Davis, co-directed the documentaries Stonewall Uprising (10) and Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (18). Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (21) is his latest film."
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Dionne!! Love you!! God Bless You and thanks for the joy you bring by just being here. A true gift from God!!
Dionne Warwick is more than a consummate singer. She has proven to be one of the most stupendous songstress of our time, phrasing songs that were - penned, tailor-made specifically for her and her only. To add, Warwick not only loaned her voice to sing about love, heartache, but she has worked indefatigably as a humanitarian. And, because of her humanitarianism, former President Ronald Reagan appointed her the first US Ambassador of Health, a role she performed during the Bush and Clinton administrations. I love you Ms. Warwick. 💞
Auntie Dionne is really doing it! I’ve enjoyed her music I guess from birth, my favorite being “Looking With My Eyes,” although a bunch of her songs run a close second. I look forward to seeing the documentary.
Ms.Dionne Warwick!!!! She can go high notes and low notes easily.Her phrasing.... Stylish singing with that heavy voice...Very unique. My favorite singer with dignity and class.Love n prayers from Bangalore,India.A twenty sthg guy here..so happy to share this... That I love this wonderful 'movement' as I would like to term it.
@singingmanmd
2 жыл бұрын
Hey. You described queen iconic Ms. Dionne very well. Love it!! I am going add though, mid notes, belts, quite, soft, uptempo, slow tempo, gospel,pop, jazz, r&b, riffs, trills, a dip wouldn't be surprised if she could do opera, lol. She is an extraordinary one of a kind songstress. The best that ever did it!!!
@noelleslie6665
2 жыл бұрын
@@singingmanmd Thank you❤
such a wonderful singer. hinde nakakasaw pakingggan.
I was so blessed to watch you on PBS doctor adventure of your life love seeing Chuck Jackson open up speaking about you. It's so important to hear your voice hear you tell your story with your two sons in the picture family is everything. And we're blessed to have you in the picture for women's History Month. Hallelujah amen Nora Parker Pittsburgh
Profiles in Pittsburgh Allegheny County PA. Was so blessed to see hits the musical at the Benedum theater on March 11th 2023 four seats from the front in the Biro. These young people sing songs better than the ones on Broadway who first sang them. Because you my sister Dionne Warwick new Huda pick and teach how to perform on stage. But I also love you for being Chuck Jackson's friend. I grew up with him on Liverpool Street when he came to sing at the hi-hat and Chappy's Lounge. My brother Joe Parker always stay till closing time to make sure he gets home safely from being in the Manchester Community thank you for this Broadway play. These young people make my heart go pitty-pat. Hallelujah sister forever Nora Parker love your music your songs and your presence in our life. Hallelujah amen
True Lady. Pure legendary iconic musical Royalty. Enough said. 🙏
Real live Dionne Warwick show. 😁
The Great Dionne Warwick!!!
I wanna see it. This was such a great Q&A. Such a bright soul. Full of light. Wow.
God bless you Dionne 😇😇👍
The Queen Dionne Warwick. 🤗😊
When we get to see this bio on this iconic class queen Ms. Dionne? !! I want to see it❤❤. Ms. Dionne always sings and tell it like it is!!
LIGHTBOURN WEST MUSIC INC THANK YOU TOO VERY MUCH THANKS TO DIONNE WORRYCK AND.GROUP ...I LISTEN SINCE I WAS 10 YEARS OLD ....
her music aside, I can remember an interview Ms Warwick gave, where she spoke about the friends that she lost to AIDS..at one point in the conversation she said she had unfortunately 'lost count' of how many friends she lost to AIDS...and with tears running down her face she named a man who had been her valet for many yrs, and had died of AIDS..tho' at the time the disease had no name. So, she literally had to call this man's Mother to tell her her son died too quickly for anyone to be notifed. ..and that no one knew exactly what he died from. She said it was the hardest thing she had ever done. Peter Allen, the late Australian performer, was close to her...he died of AIDS...she was buddies with Liberace, who died of AIDS. So, yea....I look back now to the mid-80s, and I cant think of another singer who stepped out there to say "the entertainment industry needs your help with this disease". She has made a difference...and Im looking forward to seeing her bio-pic.
When is it coming out??????
Warwick is a child abuse apologist. Very disappointing to see her honored at this year’s festival
@kklustra
2 жыл бұрын
Keyanna W. What are you talking about?
@keyannawigglesworth4056
2 жыл бұрын
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@keyannawigglesworth4056
2 жыл бұрын
she vehemently rejected what whitney and her brother (who is still alive) have recounted as abuse at the hands of warwick's sister. instead of choosing to just say nothing, she denied the truth of survivors. her actions are gross. she shouldnt be honored at tiff or anywhere
@africanbantushaman9351
2 жыл бұрын
@@keyannawigglesworth4056 First of all, you are slandering Dionne Warwick as a child abuse apologist, which is appalling of you to do so. Secondly, you have no proof that Whitney Houston was raped by Dee Dee Warwick and you certainly can't tell another grown woman old enough to be your mother or grandmother what she can and can't say. Whitney Houston never confirmed nor denied being abused by Dee Dee Warwick in her lifetime in public. Just because some of her family members said it happened doesn't mean they are telling the truth. It is very suspect and disgusting to wait until both Dee Dee Warwick and Whitney Houston were deceased to go on mainstream media to make serious criminal accusations like that towards someone who isn't alive to defend herself. You can't be upset at Dionne Warwick for defending her late younger sister because she knew her sister way better than you ever could. You never met them. You don't personally know their family. Whitney Houston was very close to Dionne Warwick. I'm sure if something like that happened to her, she would had told Dionne Warwick and her mother Cissy and they would had dealt with Dee Dee "if" she done that to her, along with the rest of their family. Dionne Warwick has children of her own and would defend and advocate for the welfare of any child. She has done that throughout her adult life. I don't believe that Dee Dee molested Whitney Houston. Don't attack Dionne Warwick's character in such a irresponsible and malicious way. You are very wrong for that and don't know what you're talking about. You really should stay out of other families' business anyway, when you know nothing about them and circumstances. Go away with your lies sweetie.
@keyannawigglesworth4056
2 жыл бұрын
@@africanbantushaman9351 you’re sitting here telling me I know nothing about these ppl and then you proceed to tell me what every member of this family would or wouldn’t do if so and so was alive. Do you know these ppl personally and if not why are you caping for them on the internet. This exact response is the reason so many children and adult survivors don’t come forward. Shame on you