The Red Rock Film Festival features over 50 films from 19 countries and kicks off Nov. Given unfettered access, Niles weaves together a profoundly moving mix of vérité footage, candid interviews, rehearsals, performances and a vast library of archival family video, addressing two major themes that have come to define each of The 5 Browns, both professionally and personally: healing through music and fighting to change statute of limitation laws for crimes of child sex abuse. But as Melody describes it, “a lot was lurking there.” The following year they were signed to Sony Records and performed in major concert halls around the world. All five were studying piano at the esteemed Juilliard School (a first in the school’s long history) at the time, and the Times’ profile opened the door to immediate stardom and appearances on major broadcasts, including “60 Minutes,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
The 5 Browns burst on to the classical music scene after a New York Times profile in 2000. Read more from 2017: ‘Speak Up for Change’: annual Dove Center gala features Brown sisters
Independently produced by award-winning filmmaker Ben Niles (“Note by Note,” “Some Kind of Spark”), “The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness” is an intimate look at The 5 Browns, a group of classically trained sibling pianists who experienced a meteoric rise to stardom only to be devastated years later by the tragic revelation that all three sisters – Desirae, Deondra and Melody – had been sexually abused by their father during childhood. CEDAR CITY - Taking viewers from the triumphant musical career of five piano prodigies to the disclosure of child sex abuse and subsequent fight for healing and social justice, the documentary “The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness” is one of more than 50 films to be screened at the 12th annual Red Rock Film Festival starting Nov.
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