\n\tWhile screening the documentary \u201cSly Lives!,\u201d producer Joseph Patel told Variety\u2019s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson that the filmmakers were not sure if their subject, Sly Stone, would still be alive to witness a film centered around his career and success. He died on June 9 at 82 years old, four months after the doc was released.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe didn\u2019t know if he would still be alive by the time we finished the film. We just didn\u2019t know his health,\u201d said Patel. \u201cWhen we first got word that he saw the finished film in December of last year, it meant a lot. This is the first screening we\u2019ve done since he passed, and it just hits different.\u201d Patel revealed that at Stone\u2019s funeral, he learned that the musician loved the documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI was introduced as the documentary filmmaker, and [found out] that he watched it all the time. It just really moved me. One of the points of the movie is just these artists that have given us so much to show them a lot of grace,\u201d added Patel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSly Lives!\u201d follows the legacy of Sly and The Family Stone as they began their career in 1966, becoming influential figures in combining psychedelic rock, R&B, gospel and funk throughout their discography. While going through archival footage, exclusive interviews and the band\u2019s original recordings, director Ahmir \u201cQuestlove<\/a>\u201d Thompson explained that he wanted to create a film that celebrated Stone\u2019s life before his death.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGaining someone\u2019s trust is important, and I know that long after we\u2019re gone, that this [film] is going to be here forever. I think it\u2019s important for all the stories that we tell, especially living at a time in which erasure of history is real,\u201d said Thompson. \u201cMy first goal was to reach people in that way because artistry is a place where you can just get lost inside your head and spin out of control and then evaporate.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that I\u2019ve watched it and been at a screening since he passed away,\u201d said Novena Carmel, Stone\u2019s daughter and one of the film\u2019s subjects. \u201cI\u2019m really happy that it exists, and that Sly lives through the documentary. It feels like everything has been happening in a really good timeline, even though some people are not here anymore. It is just nice that he was able to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWatch the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While screening the documentary \u201cSly Lives!,\u201d producer Joseph Patel told Variety\u2019s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[44884,88,206,67617,67618],"class_list":{"0":"post-101303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-documentaries-to-watch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-questlove","12":"tag-sly-lives-booster-package"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}