ELIS & TOM - It had to be you New Documentary on Iconic Brazilian Musicians ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM and ELIS REGINA

                                                        ELIS & TOM - It had to be you

 

New Documentary on Iconic Brazilian Musicians
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM and ELIS REGINA
Opens September 15th, 2023
Across the US and Canada

 

Features remastered, never-before-seen, footage of the recording of 
extraordinary "Elis & Tom" album

Outsider Pictures is proud to announce the U.S. theatrical premiere of the music documentary "ELIS & TOM - It had to be you," opening in cities across the US & Canada, on September 15, 2023. The film will premiere in Los Angeles, one week ahead of its Brazilian premiere where it will open widely on 100 screens.

 

It was Los Angeles, February 1974. Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim, the incarnation of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, then Brazil's most popular singer, met to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music. Elis brought her band, who joined Tom Jobim and the best musicians in LA, arranged by Bill Hitchcock at MGM studios.

 

Through rare and never-before-seen images the new music documentary ELIS & TOM - It had to be you tells the story of how the encounter and recording of two iconic musicians occurred.

The recording was captured by the team of filmmakers led by director Roberto de Oliveira, who arranged for the duo to meet. The original footage was kept for 45 years until it was restored and remastered in 2018. These rare and unpublished images drive this musical documentary. Drama and tensions surrounded the recording of the album, to the point that the project was almost interrupted. In the end, the power of the music took over and led Elis Regina, Tom Jobim and a group of talented young musicians to record a masterpiece. 

 

ELIS & TOM reveals the conflicts and joys of a unique moment, in a journey through time, revealing the intimacy of the creative process and the extraordinary personalities of these amazing artists.

 

ELIS & TOM - It had to be you

Directors: Roberto de Oliveira and Jom Tob Azulay

Script: Roberto de Oliveira and Nelson Motta

Producer: Diogo Pires Goncalves

Director of Photography (1974): Fernando Duarte

Director of Photography (2022): Joao Wainer

Country: Brazil

Language: Portuguese and English

R/T: 100 mins