Betty Davis - Betty: They Say I'm Different

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Product Description ------------------- Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She "was the first..." as former husband Miles Davis said. "Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince". An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the 70's scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles - startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named "Bitches Brew". She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself. Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then suddenly - she vanished. Creatively blending documentary and animation this movie traces the path of Betty's life, how she grew from humble upbringings to become a fully self-realized black female pioneer the world failed to understand or appreciate. After years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free-spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers to creatively tell her story based on their conversations. Review ------ Astonishing and tantalising Neil Kulkarni, The Wire Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. Jon Pareles, The New York Times Gritty funk, progressive sexual politics and eye-popping imagery of a criminally under-valued talent from the '70s. Joe Lynch, Billboard Honoring the beauty of the artist's enigmatic aura and elusiveness...offering us finally an alternative way to contemplate black women's musicianship without trafficking in tragedy or unveiling privacy. Daphne A. Brooks, Los Angeles Review Of Books A beautiful sizzling & sweaty film CPH:DOX Betty was a free spirit...talented as a motherf**ker. Miles Davis --Miles - The Autobiography