HBO Documentary Films has landed worldwide rights to “Master of Light,” which took home SXSW’s top non-fiction prize earlier this year. Deadline confirmed the news. Rosa Ruth Boesten’s doc is a portrait of artist George Anthony Morton, who uses “his art as a vehicle for healing after a decade of incarceration,” the director told us.
“When a good friend of mine first told me about George and showed me some of his works, I was immediately moved by the emotion in his art,” Boesten recalled. “When I learned more about his story in all its complexity, I knew this story needed to be told.” The filmmaker emphasized that Morton’s “trauma is rooted in his family’s cycle of systemic racism which comes with intergenerational trauma and neglect. We follow George as he tries to break that cycle for the next generation, while simultaneously finding his place in the tradition of classical art and reconnecting with his mother,” she explained.
HBO Documentary Films teases, “Going back home forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life and discover the contribution of African influences to the realist tradition.”
“Master of Light” doesn’t have a release date yet.
