Music doco ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ is a deep dive into one of rock'n'roll’s more exhilarating personalities. Ahead of its screening at MIFF, Annaliese speaks with the film’s Emmy-award winning director Lisa Cortes about Little Richard’s extraordinary life and complicated legacy as a deeply religious, queer Black man who became the architect for rock'n'roll as we know it.

Little Richard: I Am Everything is screening now at MIFF - head here for details.