Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Charli Xcx: Alone Together, a documentary that follows international pop star Charli Xcx as she records an album during the pandemic with online input from her fans.
Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler directed the film, which Greenwich plans to release in January. The documentary premiered in March at SXSW.
“Charli Xcx… was riding high after an electric headline global tour in 2019. However, everything changes when the Covid-19 pandemic turns the world upside down,” Greenwich wrote in a release describing the documentary project. “Lost in the early days of quarantine Charli turns to music and announces she will make an album at home in 40 days by enlisting the help of her fans online. The boundaries take Charli on a unique creative and emotional journey as she confronts mental health issues, rekindles her relationship with her boyfriend, connects with her fans, and ultimately...
Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler directed the film, which Greenwich plans to release in January. The documentary premiered in March at SXSW.
“Charli Xcx… was riding high after an electric headline global tour in 2019. However, everything changes when the Covid-19 pandemic turns the world upside down,” Greenwich wrote in a release describing the documentary project. “Lost in the early days of quarantine Charli turns to music and announces she will make an album at home in 40 days by enlisting the help of her fans online. The boundaries take Charli on a unique creative and emotional journey as she confronts mental health issues, rekindles her relationship with her boyfriend, connects with her fans, and ultimately...
- 9/23/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s a shame pop musician Charli Xcx wasn’t quarantined with anyone with formal film training during the pandemic. Alone Together, her debut feature as co-cinematographer, resists documenting a creative process she had already chronicled live on Instagram: writing, producing, and recording her new album How I’m Feeling Now with a self-imposed six-week deadline when we didn’t know exactly how long the Covid would last. Cobbled together by music video directors Bradley & Pablo, who have the task of imposing order on previously-shot footage taken from Zooms, live feeds, and Charli’s primitive “Charli Cam” (a Dv camera she carries around the house like Ethan Hawke’s Hamlet), Alone Together is the ultimate act of fan service for her most devoted core, known as the Angels. As might be obvious, this is a film that is probably not for casual fans.
Quarantined with boyfriend Huck Kwong and...
Quarantined with boyfriend Huck Kwong and...
- 3/24/2021
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
“Alone Together,” a documentary about the creation of Charli Xcx’s 2020 album “How I’m Feeling Now,” aims to show how the singer pulled together a full-fledged project last year under quarantine conditions and an arbitrarily fast, self-imposed deadline. But, in truth, the film is really the second time the album’s creation has been documented. The first came when she invited devotees to watch and weigh in on its making on a daily basis, via social media, livestreams, chat rooms and every other means a modern star can employ to make fans feel like they’re in on the action. It’s a little bit less of a “making of” than it is a love story between a woman and her fan base, with an album project-in-progress as a conduit for real-time romance.
The film has a quick preamble in pre-pandemic days, as the singer is playing to adoring...
The film has a quick preamble in pre-pandemic days, as the singer is playing to adoring...
- 3/21/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Charli Xcx is releasing a documentary film called “6ft Apart,” based on the recording of her quarantine album, “How I’m Feeling Now,” which was released in May. The album, the first to be made in quarantine by a major artist. The prolific performer, songwriter and producer first announced the album on April 6th, giving herself a hard deadline of May 15th. “It’ll be very DIY — I’ll make it from scratch, very indicative of the times we’re in,” she said during a Zoom session with fans — and sure enough, advance streams of the album arrived on the 14th.
“It felt only natural to document myself making this album,” Charli says of the film. “I don’t think I’ve ever made music in such a unique situation: being so logistically far apart from my collaborators, but going through exactly the same thing, writing songs about my relationship...
“It felt only natural to document myself making this album,” Charli says of the film. “I don’t think I’ve ever made music in such a unique situation: being so logistically far apart from my collaborators, but going through exactly the same thing, writing songs about my relationship...
- 7/16/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
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