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.