They Shot the Piano Player is an animated docudrama that explores the real-world 1976 disappearance of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior. Tenório was a gifted young pianist (34 years old at ...

France’s Les Film d’Ici and the Netherlands’ Submarine Haven have boarded “They Shot the Piano Player,” the much ... Bossa Nova in the ’60s and ’70s through the personal story ...

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up rights to the animated feature They Shot the Piano Player for the ... in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was ...

The beckoning spirit of Brazilian bossa nova floats through “They Shot the Piano Player.” A lot of ghosts ... of that late ’50s/early ’60s musical revolution and the artists who live ...

Marie Francis Family Band: young Marie is on the piano, her mother is on bass and ... in a male-dominated music world of the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s. She performed at The Basement, El Rocco ...

the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian ...