IMAGINE DOCUMENTARIES ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP
WITH THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG™ EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC
ON DEFINITIVE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
DEAL GIVES ACCESS TO HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF PERSONAL AUDIO RECORDINGS, FILM FOOTAGE, PHOTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL DIARIES AND LETTERS FOR EXCLUSIVE USE IN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
New York, August 12, 2019 –Imagine Documentaries President, Justin Wilkes, announced today that the company has reached an exclusive deal with the Louis Armstrong™ Educational Foundation to produce the definitive documentary on Jazz- legend and beloved entertainer, Louis Armstrong. The deal comes with access to hundreds of hours of audio recordings, film footage, photographs, personal diaries and a life’s worth of ephemera for exclusive use in the first significant documentary dedicated entirely to his life. In addition to Louis’ prolific music and film career, Louis was an avid biographer and kept an almost daily audio diary from the early 1950’s until the day he passed in 1971, all on reel-to-reel tape recordings and all organized meticulously “for posterity” by “Pops” himself.