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Babyface Feature Documentary Enters Production With Chris Moukarbel Directing, Kenya Barris Producing

HarbourView finances a career-spanning portrait built on exclusive interviews and rare archives.

Overview

  • Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chris Moukarbel is currently shooting the feature on 13-time Grammy winner Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.
  • Kenya Barris produces, with Moukarbel’s Permanent Wave as lead production company alongside Khalabo Ink Society, Five All in the Fifth, Rika Tischendorf and Brande Baugh, as HarbourView finances and produces.
  • The film incorporates in-depth conversations with Edmonds and collaborators, access to his never-before-seen personal archive, and behind-the-scenes and concert footage planned around his upcoming Palms shows in Las Vegas.
  • UTA Independent Film Group is handling sales representation, and the project has not set a release date.
  • The story charts Babyface’s songwriting and producing legacy, his LaFace Records roots with L.A. Reid, and the professional highs and lows he says he is reexamining.