Documentary About Blues Duo to Premiere in NYC and LA

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TWENTY THREE YEARS IN THE MAKING, SATAN & ADAM TRACKS A BLUES DUO'S STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, HUMANITY AND ULTIMATELY RE-BIRTH

Opening in NY on April 12th and in LA on April 19th

Featuring: Sterling Magee (Mr. Satan) and Adam Gussow
Directed by: V. Scott Balcerek (More Than A Game)
Produced by: Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern
Executive produced by: RYOT Films, Trevor Birney, Brendan J. Byrne, Corey Russell, David Piperni and Daniel Cantagallo

Grand Jury Prize -- 2018 Nashville Film Festival
Audience Award -- 2018 American Film Festival
2018 Tribeca Film Festival
2018 MountainFilm

Nationwide -- A celebration of the transformative power of music, and the bonds that develop when artists collaborate and worlds collide, the film follows Satan & Adam, a blues duo and a fixture on Harlem's sidewalks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Director V. Scott Balcerek pulls together over two decades of documentary footage to chart the duo's trajectory from busking in the streets of Harlem, where they were happened upon by U2 who were filming for their Rattle and Hum documentary, to bigger and bigger stages, depicting the challenges that both had to overcome to keep Satan & Adam and their friendship together.

Playing for years with artists including James Brown, Etta James and Marvin Gaye, Sterling Magee experienced the music industry's exploitation of black musicians firsthand. So he walked away to play on the Harlem streets for "his people."