VIA PRESS RELEASE | A lost R&B star who eclipsed Etta James and Little Richard, trans soul singer Jackie Shane blazed an extraordinary trail with an unbreakable commitment to her truth.
Forty years after vanishing from public view, this 20th century icon finally gets her second act in the Banger Films/National Film Board of Canada co-production Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. The first trailer for the award-winning film is out now, and a Canadian theatrical engagement is in the works for late August.
On July 17th, the GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present a screening of Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story in the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater with a post-screening interview featuring filmmaker Michael Mabbott discussing the creative process behind the film and a special tribute performance of one of Shane’s GRAMMY Award-nominated songs to follow. American Express Early Access is available June 20 at 10:30am PT, general ticket sale begins June 22 at 12pm PT. More information can be found here.
The film’s World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival in March 2024 was met with critical acclaim. It went on to earn both the DGC Special Jury Prize—Canadian Feature Documentary and the Top 10 Audience Favorite at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. Most recently, Any Other Way was chosen as an Official Selection for the UK’s Sheffield DocFest. Later this month, it will screen at San Francisco’s Frameline International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, where it will receive the prestigious “Out in the Silence Award.” The film was also an Official Selection of both the Maryland Film Festival and DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story was directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and executive produced by Elliot Page and produced by the team behind the Emmy-winning documentary Hip-Hop Evolution. In an era when voices like hers were silenced and marginalized, Shane blazed an incandescent trail from her native Nashville to the upper reaches of the charts in 1960s Toronto, where she ruled the nightclub scene. Any Other Way draws on never-before-heard phone conversations, dazzling animation, and an incredible soundtrack to finally reveal the full scope of her extraordinary life and career.
