THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE tells the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality. Revered by her followers as a spiritual visionary and viewed by her detractors as a radical heretic, Ann’s journey explores faith, persecution, gender, and the cost of unwavering belief in a hostile world.
The film captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (VOX LUX) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (THE BRUTALIST).
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