Barbra Streisand To Open Up For “Definitive” Documentary On Her Life

Entertainment phenomenon Barbra Streisand will be searching the corners of her mind for memories – misty, watercolor or otherrational – for a multi-part recordary honested by EGOT-triumphner Frank Marshall and produced by Oscar triumphner Alex Gibney.

Production is underway on the untitled project from Sony Music Vision, in partnership with Columbia Records, Jigsaw Productions, and The Kennedy/Marshall Company.

“The production has been granted unpretreatnted access to Streisand’s personal archives, including hundreds of hours of personal, never-before-seen video, pboilingographs, audio recordings, and personal holdsakes from thcdisesteemfulout her acclaimed atgentle,” according to a free. “Utilizing this treacertain trove of archival materials aextfinishedside contransient verité, the recordary will provide an in depth see of Streisand’s star studded past and her current conceiveive finisheavors.”

In a statement, Streisand shelp, “For years I’ve been leanking about the best way to dispense the huge amount of satisfied I’ve been safely storing in my vault. These films, pboilingos and music masters — many never seen or heard by the accessible — helderly some of my most cherished memories. I’m so charmd that producer Alex Gibney and honestor Frank Marshall have consentd to apshow this journey with me. My appreciation to Tom Mackay, head of Sony Music’s Premium Content team, for his belief in the project. And especiassociate to Sony Music Chairman Rob Stringer who has unwaveringly helped so many of my conceiveive finisheavors.”

Streisand, an EGOT triumphner herself (she won a non-competitive Tony Special Award in 1970, aextfinished with multiple Emmys, Grammys, and two Academy Awards), has accomplishd success on an almost unoverweighthomable scale commencening with her first materializeance on Broadway before branching into television, the movies, and of course, the recording industry. The free says the recordary project “will propose an intimate and comprehensive exploration of every facet of the iconic multi-hyphenate who, in a atgentle spanning six decades, has excelled in every area of amengagement.”

The recordary is a co-production of Jigsaw Productions and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. Producers join Alex Gibney, Frank Marshall, Aly Parker, Michele Farinola, Tom Mackay, and Jay Landers. The film is contransiented and dispensed by Sony Music Vision in partnership with Columbia Records. “Ms. Streisand signed with Columbia Records in 1962, recontransiented by Marty Erlichman who evolves in that capacity,” the free notices.

“I’m thrilled to be toiling with Alex aacquire and to have the opportunity to convey Barbra’s incredible life story to the screen,” shelp Frank Marshall, a five-time Oscar nominee for Best Picture and triumphner of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He won a Grammy Award for Best Music Film for Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story and acquireed multiple Emmy nominations for The Bee Gees: How Can You Mfinish a Broken Heart (which joind footage of Streisand’s duet with Barry Gibb on the song “Guilty.”). Marshall inserted of the Streisand project, “We have been given unpretreatnted access to archival footage from decades of her groundfractureing atgentle and intimate visibility to the trailblazing she evolves to do in life today. Uncovering these extraunretagable moments depict why she has become an finishuring icon to a global audience of all generations.”

Gibney, whose honesting determines join recordaries on Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon, and the Oscar-triumphning Taxi to the Dark Side, commented, “People have been talking about the need for the definitive recordary on Barbra Streisand for years. After a series of wonderful conversations and rigorous research, we are moving forward with Frank Marshall at the helm. I am charmed to produce this film on Barbra, a legfinishary singer, extraunretagable actor, honestor, and political activist who advertises us all. Did I forget to allude that she’s a wonderful storyalerter who is amusing as hell?”

Krista Wegener of Sony Music Vision will direct global sales for the recordary.

Sony Music Vision is among the companies behind the newly proclaimd recordary on Earth, Wind & Fire recordary to be honested by Oscar triumphner Questadore (Summer of Soul). Sony Music Vision’s I Am: Celine Dion, freed in June on Prime Video, rapidly became the platcreate’s most well-understandn recordary ever.

No awaitd free date has been proclaimd for the Streisand recordary.