Billie

The definitive story of Billie Holiday, the world’s greatest and most controversial jazz singer, is now revealed through a wealth of never-before-heard taped interviews and research undertaken by the journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Over 8 years, Kuehl tracked down and recorded over 200 hours of interviews with extraordinary and brilliant characters that populated the iconic and controversial singer’s short, tumultuous life. But after Kuehl’s unexpected death, her tapes were never heard. Until now. Using state-of-the-art techniques to bring her performances to life in colour for the first time together with home movie footage, specially shot material, archive and still images, "Billie" plays out as a film noir and captures the complexity of a legend through the eyes of a woman whose obsession would lead to her own mysterious death.