Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial VS That's the Weight of the World) is the latest documentary directed by The Roots drummer, an Oscar-winning filmmaker.
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ralph Johnson, Philip Bailey and Verdine White
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On May 9, 2003, The Roots played a free concert in Manhattan’s Battery Park at the second-ever Tribeca Festival; on Wednesday (June 3) at New York’s Beacon Theatre, Questlove — now an Oscar-winning filmmaker and Tonight Show mainstay — opened Tribeca Festival with the premiere of a documentary he directed about Earth, Wind & Fire and a performance with the surviving members of the essential R&B band. “There’s no way you could have told the drummer in the band where he’d be 25 years from now,” Questlove mused to the sold-out venue of his full-circle moment (after taking the podium from festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, no less).
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